Example sentences of "[n mass] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones ' best data did not exist until 1989 ; by the time that he met with the two chemists he had measured ‘ run number 6 ’ ( see Figure 4 , page 69 ) which is shown in his paper as the most dramatic signal and which proved to the BYU team 's satisfaction that they were right . |
| 2 | A group of scientists whose data did not agree with the claimed ‘ cold fusion ’ received threats of legal action . |
| 3 | Fleischmann and Pons , who did not realise that they had measured their neutron signal incorrectly , thought that their cell was producing 10 000 neutrons per cm 3 of palladium each second ( in fact the totality of neutrons from cosmic rays , from the concrete in the laboratory , from radon and other gases seeping through the air vents may have been responsible for almost all of these and the fusion neutrons , if there were any , were far fewer ) , and so Jones ' data did n't appear very impressive . |
| 4 | Asked if they would lose respect for a woman who was prepared to sleep with them on a first date , 24% neither agree nor disagree ; 18% strongly disagree ; 17% tend to disagree ; 16% tend to agree ; 15% strongly agree and 10% do n't know . |
| 5 | It was the end of the ST–18 , General Aircraft did not have the money to build another one , and perhaps did not feel inclined to , with the lukewarm interest they had experienced . |
| 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 | Our aircraft did n't have enough fuel to make Bangkok , so we called the Thai military base and Kamphaeng Saen and got permission to land . |
| 8 | The gaps in our data do not make it possible to say anything of statistical value , merely to point out that the evidence fragmentarily available suggests that it was by no means exceptional for women to be sole breadwinner in a household , usually in three precise sets of circumstances : in widowhood , with or without children ; after marriage when the husband was away , unemployed or chronically sick ; when unmarried , either living alone or — more frequently in our sample at any rate — caring for and responsible for an elderly parent or sick sibling . |
| 9 | It should also be noted that Young and Willmott 's data do not record the number of contacts with each relative , only the number of relatives contacted . |
| 10 | These data do not give the ship 's full performance but are experimental results collected under a variety of real operating conditions . |
| 11 | But these data do not give an accurate account of the overall effect of their change , for an additional 380,000 standard housing benefit recipients would have had an income above their entitlement level . |
| 12 | The amytal data do not appear helpful in this context . |
| 13 | So far , however , this link does not seem to apply to the mitochondrial genome and available data do not suggest that green algal and plant mtDNAs share a common ancestor . |
| 14 | Median and interquartile ( 25th to 75th centiles ) range ( IQR ) values are given for each group , since the data do not conform to a Gaussian distribution . |
| 15 | The data do not prove that the operation precedes the bowel dysfunction , and it is possible that women who are troubled by the symptoms of constipation are more likely to report gynaecological symptoms to their general practitioners . |
| 16 | What Sinclair is saying is that type descriptions of language knowledge based on intuitive impression and not grounded in actually attested data do not provide an adequate source of reference for language teaching . |
| 17 | Here we show that , in the absence of strong historical evidence , field data do not support the existence of variations in the duration of sympatry at the two areas where the distributional ranges of the cuckoo and its hosts overlap . |
| 18 | The data do not support the idea that remanent magnetization was acquired during a post-extension thermal or low-temperature chemical event at shallow crustal levels . |
| 19 | However , data do not support this hypothesis . |
| 20 | We did not find an association between smoking and the grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , and so our data do not support the hypothesis that cigarette smoke has a direct mutagenic effect on the cervical epithelium . |
| 21 | Our data do not support the idea that the xanthine/ xanthine oxidase pathway plays a part in ulcerative colitis as allopurinol , in concentrations known to inhibit xanthine oxidase activity , did not affect chemiluminescence . |
| 22 | The foregoing data do not support the notion that psychopathology causes IBS . |
| 23 | If the commercial benefits to Visa of retaining the data do not outweigh the costs of their retention then there can be little hope that such data will be accessible to historians in the future . |
| 24 | There seemed no doubt that the helium came from deep in the Earth but ‘ at this time the data do not indicate the cause … |
| 25 | However , even if the ascribed causes of death are correct , these data do not indicate those patients who are potential transplant candidates . |
| 26 | Our data do not allow us determine whether HBIG is deneficial in preventing or ameliorating recurrent HBV . |
| 27 | Combat is competitive , with the opposing planes appearing to have more ‘ Artificial Intelligence ’ than normal — eg using counter measures against your missiles etc , but again these aircraft do not seem to have their own ‘ character ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Once the eggs have hatched all surplus rockwork can be removed , to ensure that fry do not get trapped under it . |
| 30 | ‘ Dropping a book to £9.99 from £15 does not make the public run out and flood the bookstores ; the book has got to have some other handle to it . ’ |