Example sentences of "[adj] do [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the English do not like children , it is because they think they ought to behave properly , responsibly and quietly in their presence and can never riot or have a good time when they 're around . |
| 2 | The English do so love gardens ! |
| 3 | But this did n't deter fans who flocked just to catch a glimpse . |
| 4 | This did not show men to be more lateralised visuo-spatially than women as would have been expected . |
| 5 | But this did not prevent claims being made for motivational research and the like as extravagant as those made for corn cures and patent all-purpose medicines by the pedlars and mountebanks of time immemorial . |
| 6 | Yet this did not stop women artists coming to Surrealism in large numbers throughout the 1930s . |
| 7 | Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers . |
| 8 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |
| 9 | Because this alibi showed Mathews to have lied in identifying Murphy , Roy Jenkins , the Home Secretary , asked the Appeal Court to consider whether this did not raise suspicions about Mathews 's identification of McMahon and Cooper . |
| 10 | Some do not tax gains at all . |
| 11 | This does not prevent members from seeking an injunction to restrain the act from being done , nor does it affect the liability of the directors for such an act ( s. 35(1) — ( 3 ) CA ) . |
| 12 | However , this does not prevent markets from continuing to sell weaker ERM currencies . |
| 13 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 14 | This does not mean children have to get their own way all the time ( see page 97 for some specific tactics ) . |
| 15 | But this does not relieve courts of the need to decide technical issues arising in litigation : expert witnesses are called and courts are often required to choose between the conflicting testimony of expert witnesses called by opposing parties . |
| 16 | This does not stop motorists damaging the environment but only stops them destroying it quite so violently . |
| 17 | This does not preclude employers from offering help with lunch or travel costs to young people , although this should be negotiated through the school or education authority . |
| 18 | This does not produce craters but an erosive effect akin to that produced by wind-borne dust on the Earth . |
| 19 | Note that this does not include monsters ridden by characters , which must be paid for from the Characters allowance . |
| 20 | Note that this does not include monsters ridden by characters , which must be paid for from the character allowance . |
| 21 | This does not include meals . |
| 22 | But of itself this does not provide grounds for rejecting Marxism , since its chief theoretical claim is precisely to explain power-relations and forms of conflict such as those denoted by the terms ‘ nation ’ , ‘ gender ’ and ‘ race ’ in terms of the forces and relations of production . |
| 23 | This does n't give curls but leaves you hair thicker and easier to style . |
| 24 | Two of the following do not have statues erected in their memory in Parliament Square . |
| 25 | The US , as the country of origin for the uranium , had originally insisted that shipments be made by air , but the Japanese do not have containers which would withstand impact in the event of a crash . |
| 26 | Debtor-creditor-supplier versus debtor-creditor : the first category involves the supplier in the transaction ( for instance , HP , trading checks , credit cards , shop accounts , and even personal loans where the money is to be used for a particular purchase and the supplier of that purchase is involved in the loan agreement ) ; the second does n't involve suppliers of potential or actual purchases in any way ( for instance , bank overdrafts , most personal loans ) . |
| 27 | The first group of three do not keep newspapers or magazines in hard copy at all except for the specialist journals which are retained for one year . |
| 28 | ‘ For example , out of 28 graduates last year , I know that 15 are working and I know that three do n't have jobs . |
| 29 | There is a chain of mountain huts placed at roughly day-stage intervals but these do not offer meals . |
| 30 | Some fungi , bacteria and viruses are likely to be present in most ponds and aquaria , but that these do not cause problems until fish are injured or weakened in some way . |