Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] not [det] " in BNC.

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1 Where data have a hierarchical structure or where units do not all have the same number of variates recorded ( due , for example , to different numbers of visits to a clinic ) , the more elaborate structure of a database will be needed .
2 Organizations do not all subscribe to the marketing concept .
3 There is still much to discover of their even earlier history , and we hope that the crucial steps did not all take place in some site where fossils have little chance of preservation .
4 These control subjects did not all undergo all the tests that were performed on the patients with idiopathic DU and , therefore , the number of control subjects for the different tests varies .
5 And the strike waves did not all occur in particularly tight labour markets .
6 Three of yesterday 's heads had n't enough money so were not supplied .
7 ‘ Ooh , me bones do n't half ache today , ’ grumbled Jackie one chilly morning towards the end of November as he heaved himself up under his blanket and lit his bit of candle .
8 ‘ The problem with big musicals , ’ said Garland , ‘ is that English directors have n't much experience with them .
9 His affections do not that way tend , Or what he spake , though it lacked form a little , Was not like madness .
10 Firstly , individuals do not all occur randomly in a forest and often there is much clumping as we have already discussed .
11 At the top of the scale , landlords and big yeomen farmers owned not much less than one-third of the wealth of Norfolk and Sussex .
12 BELVILLE : [ aside ] To what numberless mean things did not this unmanly passion subject me ? [ to PAMELA ] My sister Davers would have had you live with her , but she would not do for you what I am resolved to do if you continue faithful and obliging .
13 Learners do not all develop at the same speed in the same way .
14 But what differentiates the earlier part of this century from either the present or the early nineteenth century is that these problems did not all coalesce into one disturbing image of a threatening , dangerous , and disorderly criminal class .
15 Naturally , the distinction is not as clear-cut as these simple definitions imply : current items do not all disappear on the initial day of consumption ; and neither do all capital items last for generations .
16 One of the effects of anharmonicity is that these transitions do not all have exactly the same frequency , and so a band may have a very complex form .
17 But , as page printers do n't all use laser technology we 'll stick with the proper term for the duration of this article .
18 ‘ The problem of why the galaxies do n't all pile in on top of each other .
19 Watch out that the charges under these arrangements do not more than eat up any advantage .
20 Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community .
21 The process of consultation and negotiation was not entirely smooth , since teachers did not all share the same understanding of the form of library use favoured by the project and , indeed , the school 's own library committee .
22 I do wish the Americans had n't this love of trainloads of initial letters to designate an organization .
23 The children saw not much of him because all day he was out at his duties and in the evenings he retired to his study to convert his lectures into books .
24 A major problem is that the measures do not all move together .
25 It is through this process that children learn not all men are abusers and also learn how to express their feelings appropriately .
26 This time country 's vigilantes have not much to complain about — yet .
27 They are used for a bit of horticulture and , increasingly , for a bit of ’ horseyculture ’ — and the horses do not half make a mess on the ground !
28 The genes in a pack of wolves do n't all stand to gain from the same set of events in the future .
29 Women do not all have equal control over their image : poor , working-class women can not afford designer jeans , leather jackets and other symbols of urban lesbian chic .
30 The others had n't any money and these have n't any soul .
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