Example sentences of "[noun pl] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Such words do not exist in Russian .
2 However words do not combine arbitrarily to form phrases and sentences , so higher level constraints can be applied to reduce the remaining ambiguity .
3 Good words do not last long until they amount to something …
4 The popular notion that words do not hurt you is by no means endorsed among women survivors of male violence .
5 He emphasizes that words do not depend on reality for their meaning .
6 The Court of Appeal in that case thought that the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences depended on the presence in the Larceny Act of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ and , as these words do not appear in the definition of theft , the distinction is gone ; all cases of obtaining by deception , contrary to section 15 , are also theft .
7 Sometimes , with the best of intentions , the words do not come out quite right .
8 It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ .
9 Which of these words do not describe the character of the music ?
10 Which of these words do not describe the character of the music .
11 The first and perhaps most important point is that these words do not attribute property directly either to the trustee ( B ) or to the beneficiary ( C ) .
12 The fateful words do not establish a trust in favour of him , but instead a trust at his expense in favour of another person .
13 These words do not have an absolute meaning , since it varies according to context .
14 There are two reasons for this : ( a ) the correct words do not have a proven semantic relationship ( unlike the semantic pairs ) , and ( b ) the control words are not artificially selected but instead are random orthographic derivations of the correct words and therefore not necessarily unrelated .
15 Bible words do not have magical powers in themselves , but because all words express ideas , and ideas lie behind action , the word of God is a mighty weapon to influence men 's convictions and conduct .
16 The grapheme is the dominant unit ( since , although most — ead words do not have ‘ ee ’ pronunciation , a large majority of the subjects gave this pronunciation ) but not the only one .
17 A well-designed communication structure can do much to minimize this by recognizing the fact that words do not have specific meanings until they are defined for a particular purpose .
18 Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly
19 When we have a hunch that somebody is telling lies , for instance , ‘ what we really mean is that their body language and their spoken words do not agree . ’
20 The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to .
21 And attempts by several African countries , including Zimbabwe , Kenya , Nigeria and South Africa ( would you believe it ? ) to ban sales of these soaps do not seem to have done much to lessen its ' widespread use .
22 Rights and privileges do not pose any particular problems in the case of children .
23 The guidelines do not talk about developing a structure that is crucial to the quality delivery of services .
24 The current guidelines do not cover these matters and this will obviously vary from project to project .
25 It is important to banks that accounting guidelines do not prevent the efficient financing of loans .
26 It should be noted that the Guidelines do not form part of the Code and are not enforceable under the Bye–Laws of The Engineering Council .
27 Although the guidelines do not have the force of law , they do influence the doctors ' judgement .
28 The guidelines do not have the force of law but are persuasive given the power of institutional shareholders .
29 The national liberal politician , Johannes von Miquel , wrote that ‘ the suggested constitution could not be compared with the Swiss or American model ’ , adding for good measure that ‘ great peoples do not copy ’ .
30 But these people 's delusions do not convince me that Satan is a fiction , and psychological arguments against him by psychiatrists have no philosophical bite that carries conviction .
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