Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The most popular television crime series , such as The Sweeney , Minder , The Professionals , Juliet Bravo , Hill Street Blues , tend not to deal with corporate crime and the business criminal .
2 In addition , we have observed that a well characterised group of patients do not benefit from endoscopic therapy .
3 Thus Regulation 418/85 provides exemption for R&D agreements from the effects of Article 85 , making it clear that exemptions only apply to agreements that do not extend to joint marketing and selling .
4 The remaining junctions we have studied ( G4pC5 , A5pC6 , G7pT8 , T8pC9 ) do not resonate at low field and thus would not be expected to be in the B II state .
5 It is also found that , for the junctions whose phosphates do not resonate at low field , the torsional energy of the B II conformation is uniformly less stable than that of the starting structure .
6 The larger the group the greater this tendency , argues Olson , and thus it is not surprising that amorphous groups such as consumers , or even economic classes , do not unite in common action to pursue their interests .
7 It is not the intention of the Institute to penalise those who do not pay by direct debit , but rather to reward those who elect to pay by this means .
8 Since their premises are not open to the public , and they do not engage in retail trade , they are able to establish themselves in locations where overheads are cheaper .
9 ‘ Children in heaven do not advance beyond early manhood , but remain in that state of eternity ’
10 Carol , who has learned to manage her meagre budget as carefully as any accountant , exemplifies the deeper problem of Easterhouse behind the unemployment , said to be 30 per cent , but much higher when the unemployed 16- to 18-year-olds , those on invalidity benefit and people who do not register for non-existent work are taken into account .
11 These latter , he insists , do not exist outside human action .
12 About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes .
13 If this project falls , it is not for purely logical reasons ; it will rather be for the more interesting reason that the right sort of truths do not exist about human nature .
14 What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible .
15 With the exception of the astronauts who visited the Moon , space travellers do not go beyond low-Earth orbit , where even the attenuated magnetic field and atmosphere provide some protection from radiation .
16 The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society .
17 Catalogues raisonnés of modern artists do not depend on scholarly guesswork at attributions , and thus lack the laconic critical judgements reached by connoisseurs .
18 Their relative independence of the councils which set them up means that deals can be negotiated and long-term arrangements achieved which do not depend on detailed discussion through council committee .
19 People do not talk in written English but in living , colloquial , personal language .
20 Mathematical Physics students usually do not continue with practical physics .
21 The evaluation runs mentioned above indicate that the results with mid-class representations do not hold for connected speech .
22 We have shown that the abnormalities of oesophageal motor function in patients with reflux oesophagitis do not improve after complete healing of oesophagitis .
23 To take care that in ploughing , the furrows are sufficiently ample and not hurried over , when good land is to be ploughed for fallow , the ploughmen to take care that they do not dip into bad soil , and in the time of rebinning not to go too deep , but to plough lightly just to destroy the weeds , lest if wet weather ensue when they come to sow the seed will be deposited in mud instead of solid soil .
24 There are readily available tests for lactase deficiency , but these do not distinguish between true lactase deficiency ( or primary lactase deficiency ) and secondary lactase deficiency .
25 The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations .
26 These films do not make for easy viewing .
27 Theories do not make for liberating music .
28 The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening .
29 All carriers of the bacterium , however , do not suffer from duodenal ulcer .
30 They were concerned to push beyond the simple and trite observation that issues do not matter in electoral politics in order to ask a more detailed question as to the " terms " on which they are likely to matter .
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