Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [noun] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Any training should be user-friendly to a naïve user — a doctor or warehouse clerk does not want to be concerned with the segmentation required for handwriting recognition .
2 Chains , studs or snow tyres do not work at all then .
3 Those who claimed a break-even or loss situation did not make allowance for home produced food .
4 The attached flowchart ( Appendix 3 ) shows three instances where an Information memorandum or investment overview does not need approval under the FSA as an investment advertisement .
5 Caustic remarks about their latest pop or sports idol do n't help .
6 No less hierocratic than Pecham , Winchelsey eagerly supported the king with clerical taxes when the realm was in danger and when papal decree or canon law did not prevent it ; in 1295 and late in 1297 he evinced an almost unseemly — and not widely shared — enthusiasm to assist the king with clerical subsidies , but much of his tenure is remembered rather for his resistance to the crown 's efforts to tax the clergy .
7 The P. & C.E. Act does not encompass all existing stop and search powers .
8 The system of review of detention introduced under the P. & C.E. Act does not affect the system of applications for habeas corpus .
9 A raw Landsat TM or MSS image does not conform to any standard map projection .
10 If the nursery or garden centre do not like the idea of you looking , walk out and go somewhere else .
11 The practising teacher or school librarian does not have time to go leisurely through pages of details which are poorly printed on A4 which are folded and tucked in an envelope with a disk .
12 A paper round or weekend job does n't pay enough .
13 She had told him a lie about Auntie Lou going for a walk up the mountain and Auntie Lou did n't know what she 'd said .
14 James Kilpatrick and William Dunlop did not speak to each other for 22 years , until a mutual friend arranged a reconciliation meeting in 1935 .
15 Jim and William Reid do n't dress for dinner .
16 The Sonar and Radar pioneers did n't know it then , but all the world now knows that bats , or rather natural selection working on bats , had perfected the system tens of millions of years earlier , and their " radar " achieves feats of detection and navigation that would strike an engineer dumb with admiration .
17 The Monopolies and Mergers Commission did not allow the 1986 bid to proceed and rejected GEC 's claims arguing that : ‘ We do not consider that it is possible in the field of electronics to establish a direct link between company size and competitive performance ’ .
18 Transpiration in ozone-damaged trees was irregular and delayed , and transpiration rates did not vary with external conditions as they do in healthy trees .
19 The Naval and General Staffs did not demur .
20 Blood pressure and heart rate did not change during the course of the studies .
21 It had been a hard-fought victory , and Commanche Run did not race again that season .
22 ‘ In those days , balance sheets and profit and loss accounts did n't mean all that much , ’ he explains .
23 Although the above profit and loss account does not show the revenues and expenses separately , supporting statements do break the figures down into much more detail .
24 But some aspects of the assessment and action records did not meet the project 's needs .
25 And handbag designers do n't come much younger , prettier or more stylish than Anya Hindmarch .
26 Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange do not belong ( ultimately ) to the Earnshaws and Lintons , but to Heathcliff , originally a waif from the city slums .
27 Searches of the Genbank , EMBL , and PIR data bases with the AD1 nucleotide and protein sequences did not find an identical match .
28 Swales , influential chairman of the International Selection Committee , says of the manager 's job : ‘ It destroyed Don Revie ; it did n't do Ron Greenwood too much good and Bobby Robson did n't like it one bit .
29 ( The fountain did not play : Esther was not a magician , and college rooms did not rise to running water for people , let alone fountains . )
30 There are advantages to listening in a face-to-face conversation which communication links such as the telephone and tape recorder do not offer , although being in the presence of the speaker is not an absolute prerequisite for ‘ effective listening ’ .
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