Example sentences of "they do not [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 2 | Yet they did not simply follow the views of the Foreign Office where disillusionment with the USSR was rapidly increasing . |
| 3 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 4 | Mrs Priestley said they did not yet know the identity of the donor but she and her husband would like to express their gratitude to the donor 's family . |
| 5 | From time to time the authorities got wind of these breaches of regulations and punished clubs , but they did not regularly inspect the books and revelations of extra payments tended to emerge as a result of other inquiries . |
| 6 | Like disrespectful underlings , they did not adequately acknowledge the dominion of their superiors . |
| 7 | They did not even leave the building . |
| 8 | They did not even approach the matter . |
| 9 | They did not even follow the retreating Dutch skirmishers , but seemed content to let the morning 's skirmish die to nothing . |
| 10 | Quite apart from the intellectual and educational differences , they did not even share the same hobbies . |
| 11 | When trades were finally executed they did not fully reflect the information then available . |
| 12 | They did not sufficiently approach the reality that she knew , whereas the threat of the straightness of the gate seemed unfailingly significant . |
| 13 | It suggested they did not sufficiently respect the vow of celibacy . |
| 14 | He found that survey respondents did not make unbiased predictions and that they did not efficiently exploit the information contained in past interest rate movements , and concludes that his results are ‘ mixed to unfavourable ’ to the hypothesis that expectations are rational . |
| 15 | What was interesting in this study was that subjects ' eye movements showed that they looked longer and more frequently at syntactic errors even when they did not actually report the errors . |
| 16 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 17 | The Czechs were , like the Muscovites before them , primarily linguists , and they did not significantly alter the basic groundwork of Formalist literary theory as it had been developed by the late 1920s . |
| 18 | For example , a person who early on in life formed the assumption that they had to have everybody 's approval in order to be happy , could become depressed if they did not subsequently secure the approval of someone important to them . |
| 19 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 20 | Although they did not quite reach the same heights , Ann Welsh ( Liverpool ) and Claire Swift ( Sefton ) maintained a high standard in the under-17 race over the same distance , with the Liverpool girl taking the honours in 4–39.0 against her rival 's 4–40.4 . |
| 21 | His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was . |
| 22 | It should be emphasised that we are providing a service complementary to that of merchant banks ; they do not normally have the resources to do it themselves . |
| 23 | The other major weakness of the proposals is that they do not properly identify the nature of the problem . |
| 24 | SI 1992 No 274 provides a complementary exemption , permitting companies which have ‘ relevant securities ’ traded or dealt in on the markets indicated above to issue investment advertisements provided that , in broad terms , they do not overtly advertise the company 's securities as investments or seek to advertise any other investments or investment services . |
| 25 | However although the diagrams presented identify the stores and the pathways between the stores they do not effectively represent the dynamics of the runoff-producing system . |
| 26 | They do not just know the ropes : they make the ropes . |
| 27 | When Americans talk about an ‘ underclass ’ in their cities , they do not simply mean the poor ; they mean poor but healthy young people who can not or will not , but anyway do not , get a job . |
| 28 | They do not even reflect the cognitive side of learning ; they are about the ability to recall and express accurately in a pressurised situation . |
| 29 | ‘ Working class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ and ‘ upper class ’ are common terms , but they do not adequately express the complexities of social class in Britain . |
| 30 | They do not actually reflect the true nature of what Conservatives want . ’ |