Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the USA the absence of a strong socialist movement can to some degree be explained by ( a ) the ‘ newness ’ and apparent ‘ classlessness ’ of their social structures , especially the absence of an aristocracy ; ( b ) extensive social mobility ; ( c ) the multiplicity of ethnic cleavages ; and ( d ) the fact that universal suffrage arrived before large-scale industrialization , which meant that the working -class did not have to struggle for the franchise . |
| 2 | Aggregate data do not , of course , allow us to draw any inferences about the behaviour of individual authorities which give rise to these findings , particularly where so few cases are often involved . |
| 3 | It was also stated that , even at the level of explaining security returns , CAPM tests using historic data have not been terribly successful . |
| 4 | Have you noticed that most NDBs in the UK have frequencies that end with point five of a kHz — i.e. 350.5 , and maybe you have also noticed that almost without exception , the ADF receiver in light aircraft does not tune to these half kHz but only to whole numbers of kHz ? |
| 5 | Although I generally agree with this statement , the continued denial of risk for patients exposed to HIV-infected HCWs without scientific data does not reassure the population . |
| 6 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |
| 7 | The smoking data have not bee updated since recruitment . |
| 8 | ’ And although the old folk do not sit around the fire any more telling stories as they once did — many of the yarns told by Mr Murray 's own father have found their way into his poetry — there are always the excitements and discoveries of the present by way of compensation . |
| 9 | It is worth noting that there is a delay between diagnosis and reporting of cases of AIDS and that there is usually a long interval between infection with HIV and the development of AIDS , so the published statistics do not accurately reflect the spread of HIV infection . |
| 10 | Also it 's kind of er even if you er sort of different people do n't , I mean a lot of people do n't discuss as much as we do . |
| 11 | It is not that English people do not lie down in the bedroom , or that French people do not have keys , but rather they choose different salient characteristics for the expression of that specific meaning . |
| 12 | This genial host admits that many English people do n't really know what to expect when they visit the Emerald Isles . |
| 13 | The unity he had in mind was , ironically , that which had existed before Germany became a nation-state , the unity of the disunited rainbow of German states and principalities , the state of unity when Jews were legally inferior to Germans , when Poles were not a numerical threat , when expansion to the east had been easy , when the German people had not been a rising industrial power , when the massed levy of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents . |
| 14 | The Armaments Inspectorate at Nuremberg , commenting on the successful concealment of preparation for the invasion , noted that ‘ the concentration of numerous troops in the eastern areas had allowed speculation to arise that significant events were afoot there , but nevertheless probably the overwhelming proportion of the German people did not think of any warlike confrontation with the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 15 | That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses . |
| 16 | Moreover , these dependent people do not reach a social services department in most cases unless the family can not care for them without help . |
| 17 | The Scottish people do n't like Catholics . ’ |
| 18 | The majority of British people do not find universities attractive or accessible . |
| 19 | Clearly , the British people do not want a return to the failed interventionist , socialist policies of the 1960s and 1970s — and that is another reason why Labour will be defeated at the next general election . |
| 20 | The British people do not want it . |
| 21 | The public opinion polls showed that three quarters of the British people do not want it . |
| 22 | The overwhelming majority of the British people do not want to return to such Victorian values as jobs at any price . |
| 23 | If all British people did not feel deeply hurt by this ‘ there 's something wrong with you … ’ |
| 24 | The British people did n't listen to the warnings . |
| 25 | The British people have not been allowed to express their views through a referendum , although the trend in opinion as measured by opinion polls has been firmly against a Federalist structure . |
| 26 | The British people have not been told the truth about that . |
| 27 | ‘ Ethnic communities are reproducing a culture which the majority of British people have n't yet accepted as part of the British landscape , ’ says Dr Tariq Madood , a fellow at Nuffield College currently writing on the changing character of racism . |
| 28 | Anyway , you ca n't dismiss the experimental method just because some irrational people choose not to put the findings into practice . |
| 29 | They do have lady clerical staff do n't they ? |
| 30 | Lee was startled by the almost aggressive note in Mrs Ridley 's question and had to remind herself that old people do not like change , do not like precipitate action , especially from those they have become used to . |