Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In some cases they do not conform to the kinds of sources that naturally have such material inherent to their structure .
2 Around this time his wage rate came to 2/3 a day , but he rarely worked more than about 10 days in any month , and in some months he did not work at all .
3 In arguing that the instrumental response is quite proper in some circumstances I do not mean to imply that it always can operate .
4 For some purposes we do not need to know which modes of vibration are responsible for which IR or Raman bands , but sometimes we must go further , and assign the bands in the spectrum to particular modes .
5 Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true .
6 ‘ When we hear such sounds we do not pay attention to things like pitch and timbre .
7 How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years .
8 At such moments it did not seem better to be dead than Red , neither did it seem plausible that there was a godless conspiracy at work wherever one looked .
9 It is submitted that in these circumstances they do not do well enough with the written word .
10 May I ask of any of your readers have any of these cutters they do not need and would wish to sell them ?
11 These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room .
12 For these things I did not forgive her .
13 When a repeat biopsy was taken in these patients it did not affect management and this practice , which has often been followed just to satisfy some definitions of coeliac disease , should be reviewed .
14 I have said many times I do not wish to hire yes-men .
15 There were too many houses he did not own ; and he could not afford to see any more built .
16 We should not have to rely on the private sector to assist in providing facilities especially as , currently in many cases it does not provide such facilities .
17 proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ;
18 I have learned many things I did not know about events in this region . ’
19 When there are many dislocations they do not have to move far before two or more dislocations meet .
20 In many ways they do not have the resources we have in the West , but in Leipzig Masur has a pool of well over 200 musicians whom he has trained up very well .
21 There are too many forces we do not control — nor indeed seek to control .
22 Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for .
23 In those circumstances it does not seem to me right to leave open , whether the court has power to do so I 'm doubtful , but in any event it does not seem to me right to leave open a question of whether there should be some damages to provide for the possibility that er Paul may have to leave school , nor do I think that it is a situation in which any contingency award should be made in respect of that .
24 Whether the ancient amphibians overcame those difficulties we do not know .
25 And , for the moment , all I want is a little peace and quiet although it 's not all that quiet , thanks to the gaps between the attic floorboards left by the cottage 's Victorian jerrybuilder : how Riva can snore on through all those goings-on I do not know .
26 Even if it had been otherwise , it still would not have followed that the unions should as of right share in the control of those resources they did not own : land and buildings , plant and equipment , and finance .
27 Emma had told her several times she did not wish to be repaid .
28 Party censors stamped out any arts they did not like .
29 By their combination they prevent the master employing any journeymen they do not approve of , who as they say is not a fair man ; and all journeymen must ask the constable of the shop , for the time being , ( an officer appointed by the combination ) for work before they ask the master .
30 For when I speak of the community being faithful to its own principles I do not mean its conventional or popular morality , the beliefs and convictions of most citizens .
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