Example sentences of "[that] [n mass] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the eggs have hatched all surplus rockwork can be removed , to ensure that fry do not get trapped under it . |
| 2 | To speak differently , if e had not occurred , then even if there had also occurred any change x logically consistent with the absences of e and of cc , and consistent with the absences of links between cc and e , it would also have been the case that cc did not occur . |
| 3 | There is a suggestion that offspring do not have an even chance of inheriting a trait from either parent . |
| 4 | Like elephants , it seems to me that bream do not forget easily either and experience from the past they learn from carefully . |
| 5 | One argument to which the Government has no right to resort is that statistics do not matter . |
| 6 | Gabriel thought that twopence did not seem worth bothering about , so he stepped forward . |
| 7 | The problem was not that people had not done their jobs : they had . |
| 8 | He 'd once tried to explain to her that he was n't popular , that people did n't like him , but she would n't have it , so he 'd given up . |
| 9 | Whatever I did I was convinced that people did n't like me , and that if only I could be slim and keep that way with sensible eating habits , they would . |
| 10 | erm lots of advertisements produced by Tampax , erm about worry and off days and this was because during that time menstruation was one of these taboo subjects that people did n't talk about . |
| 11 | There were understandings between us that people did n't guess at . ’ |
| 12 | She says in Belgium they 'd give it scraps that people did n't want . ’ |
| 13 | But , the banks and building societies ha have found that people did n't want independent advice , because they did n't ask for it . |
| 14 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 15 | For example , Professor Peckham quoted a director of public health who said that people did not ask about research evidence even when making difficult decisions . |
| 16 | The sheer quantity of matter meant that people did not read all their newspaper . |
| 17 | To reject the picture is not to suggest that people did not have a very real experience of God . |
| 18 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 19 | Fewer still would argue that people did not need green spaces within their communities . |
| 20 | He claimed that complaints were up but nobody ever thought of complaining when the Labour party was in power because there was not a proper procedure , and in many cases the service was so bad that people did not bother . |
| 21 | One senses that people do not trifle with ‘ The Shark ’ , whose background is in the seedier recesses of legal neo-fascism . |
| 22 | A ND you resist all eye contact , remembering the words of barrister Caradog Morgan who earlier this year , in defending one Victoria Carrington , freelance insurance consultant accused of assaulting two fellow passengers because they had joggled her newspaper and dared to look at her right in the face , said , ‘ There is a convention on the Underground that people do not look each other in the eye . ’ |
| 23 | Neither is it a question of ‘ working for it ’ , nor , to put it the other way , that people do not have more land because they are not prepared to work for it . |
| 24 | And , if you do believe in the continuation of the spirit , you have the added comfort of knowing that there is no such thing as ‘ never ’ and that people do not stop loving one another just because they are on different planes . |
| 25 | If its investigation gives credence to the theory that people do not tell the truth to market researchers , the industry has a problem . |
| 26 | One problem with the adaptive expectations hypothesis is that it presumes that people do not learn from their past mistakes . |
| 27 | But I am sure that what determined her to write to me was this paragraph : ‘ The author we most admire has rightly said that people do not know about families ; but Stephen and I know . |
| 28 | ‘ The figures show that people do not really watch television to be informed , they watch it to relax , ’ said David Graham , whose research company compiled the top 100 . |
| 29 | We suppose , for instance , that what somebody says to us will be relevant to the occasion or to what has just been said , that people do not just issue utterances at random . |
| 30 | The reason that people do not generally look into alternative credit terms in any detail certainly is not that they feel pushed willy-nilly into one particular type of credit . |