Example sentences of "[subord] [n mass] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business deals would not be made where people did not know the other partner to the contract . |
| 2 | This makes sense in Japan where ( because of stellar house prices ) most young single professionals still live at home with their parents and have cash to spend , and where people do not make a habit of throwing bricks through car windows and stealing things . |
| 3 | Where people do not take part in politics , the study enquires whether this is due to satisfaction , hostility or apathy and in what circumstances people might come to take a more active part . |
| 4 | Although data does not appear at first sight to be a resource of the organisation , it certainly is a resource , as data is essential for the organisation to operate effectively . |
| 5 | Although statistics do not explain why people are increasingly in debt they do explain why ‘ negotiating debt ’ enquiries have increased by 330 per cent over the last three years in Scottish CABx . |
| 6 | Although trout do not grow to enormous sizes they fight very well and are terrific sport . |
| 7 | In giving his ruling Judge White said the court had more cases waiting in which judgements in default against Lord Mancroft totalling more than £16,000 had not been satisfied . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 9 | Although people do not always do what they say they do , where there is a mismatch between what they do and say , we can assume that there is some reason for this . |
| 10 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) If cc had not existed , e would not have happened . |
| 12 | If each of the others had not been complete , then if cc had not been , e would not have happened . |
| 13 | More generally , if cc was a causal circumstance for c , and with the other terms defined as with ( 5 ) , we have this : ( 7 ) If none of cc " or cc " or … existed , then if cc had not existed , even if any change x had occurred logically consistent with that and with e 's absence , c would not have happened . |
| 14 | That was my original they had a competition to look out for people who 've got ideas about this new idea , it was a ridiculous idea to do a competition cos people did n't know what they were entering for , half the parishes were n't notified about it , |
| 15 | Cos people do n't read the nineteen centimetres anyway |
| 16 | cos people do n't appreciate things do they ? |
| 17 | And then … as if people had not been hearing things since Noah hit his thumb with a hammer , SOUND arrived . |
| 18 | No , I 've arranged to rent Mr Boldwood 's farm , and I could have been your farm manager as well , if — well — if people had n't said things about us . ’ |
| 19 | For instance , if people have n't exhibited management ability in what they think are the worthwhile things they 've done over the past 30 years or so , the chance of them ever being good managers is remote . |
| 20 | What , what , what I would say is this , there always , there always talking about anti social behaviour around the town and as I say if people have n't got the necessary coin , it could lead to anti social behaviour , it 's as simple as that . |
| 21 | So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off . |
| 22 | I do n't see why I should spend time some way away if people have n't actually articulated what they 're trying to achieve . |
| 23 | If people have not had the chance to say the things they wanted to say then the sense of unfinished business can be overwhelming . |
| 24 | If people do not pay the community charge they will receive a reminder . |
| 25 | Policies have their conditions and we try to make them as user friendly as possible but if people do not read conditions it is difficult for us to say we will ignore those conditions . ’ |
| 26 | If people do not understand you , is it their fault or yours ? |
| 27 | Therefore , if people do not like the decisions management is taking , they will withdraw their funds , something which is easier in a financial firm than in most others . |
| 28 | Furthermore , it is said , as native speakers of a language seem able to recognize correct and incorrect sentences , the idea of there being language rules exemplified in such sentences does seem to correspond to some kind of reality , even if people do not always speak according to these abstracted rules . |
| 29 | If people do not pay the Council will have to borrow money at current high interest rates to pay its bills ( including bills for trying to collect the tax ) and that can only mean higher poll tax bills next year . |
| 30 | I only repeat what I said last time Chairman that if the , that if people do not understand the management of the countryside , that they leave it well alone . |