Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb infin] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baptismal , confirmation , membership and communicant figures do not tell the whole story . |
| 2 | In some countries , national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength . |
| 3 | Your books do not tell the whole story . |
| 4 | Simple numbers , however , do not tell the whole story . |
| 5 | It is important to banks that accounting guidelines do not prevent the efficient financing of loans . |
| 6 | As between themselves , the purchaser and the vendor are bound under the terms of the sale agreement by the decisions of the expert , but the provisions in the sale agreement do not prevent the aggrieved party , whether it be the purchaser or the vendor , from attempting to bring a claim against the expert if it can be shown that such party has suffered loss under the normal principles of the law of negligence ( see Arenson v Casson Bechman Rutley & Co [ 1977 ] AC 405 ) . |
| 7 | In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors . |
| 8 | One should not therefore underestimate the importance of neighbourhood to such old people , even if neighbours do not perform the same functions as in ‘ the old days ’ . |
| 9 | We do not speak the same language . ’ |
| 10 | Not only is there a division among the English , the Scottish , and the Welsh ; there is also a division between Gaelic-speaking Scots and those who do not speak Gaelic , and between those who do and do not speak the Welsh language in Wales . |
| 11 | Do not grieve the Holy Spirit with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption . |
| 12 | But they do not examine the institutional reasons for low black attainment , or study ‘ race ’ as a social category , and so they often fall into a biologically founded account of absolute ‘ race ’ differences . |
| 13 | ‘ the layman may well wonder why we do not consult the Parliamentary Debates , for we are much more likely to find the intention of Parliament there than anywhere else . |
| 14 | Thus they do not confront the usual sources of public misunderstanding . |
| 15 | A final bit of evidence that the modals do not represent the bare infinitive 's event as subsequent to their own event comes from certain observations about the contrast between will and be going to made by Palmer ( 1988 : 148 ) . |
| 16 | I am convinced that the works on view in the museums and those we consider to be exceptional , do not represent the finest achievements in the world . |
| 17 | Incomplete information may lead to private choices which do not represent the best interests of individuals or society as a whole . |
| 18 | Excluding these two patients made no difference , however , as they do not represent the outlying points . |
| 19 | the vertical 250 squares DO NOT represent the same number of rows of knitting . |
| 20 | Children do not recognize the physical cues of when they want to empty their bladder until they reach the ages of 12 to 18 months ( Leach 1975 ; Lask 1985 ) and so it is unlikely that children trained before this age are reliable or in control . |
| 21 | I now realize that there are different kinds of Jews , ranging from the ultra-religious Chasidim who do dress like that , to Liberal Jews who do not recognize the holy nature of the Bible and who prefer to keep whichever laws they can rationalize . |
| 22 | In addition , the analysts we interviewed do not regard the annual report as sufficiently timely or relevant to be critical to investment decisions in an industry in which the potential successes of individual products and the market direction of research and development are more important . |
| 23 | I do not regard the United Kindom constitution as set in concrete . |
| 24 | Governments do not exercise the same sway over the House of Lords ; notwithstanding that the House of Lords is sensitive of its constitutional vulnerability and hence wary of obstructing governments , it can be more troublesome for a government to negotiate the passage of a Bill through the House of Lords than through the House of Commons . |
| 25 | In analysing and explaining crime we will need to examine why these control mechanisms do not exert the same influence on all individuals and social groups . |
| 26 | The council may also decide to invest in guided buses , latter-day trolley buses , which do not incur the heavy costs of disturbing underground cable , pipes and sewers , that a comprehensive LRT network would . |
| 27 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 28 | While the factors of time and the sheer difficulty of analysis partly explain the relative failure of donors to provide a meaningful public assessment of aid programmes , they do not explain the cumulative inadequacy of the results which are available to date . |
| 29 | The two α-truncated polymerases do not show the same extent of protection in the extreme upstream part of the footprint ; the protection actually stops at -39.5 on the upper strand ( Fig. 2a , lanes 5 and 7 ) and at -43.5 on the lower strand ( Fig. 2b , lanes 5 and 7 ) with no further modification downstream . |
| 30 | Though they do not dispute the independent effects of maternal age and birth order , especially that of young age and parity , they assert that the apparent maleffect of old maternal age and high birth order is probably due to poor child-spacing . |