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

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1 While the prospect of cycling through York is attractive the idea of doing the same thing in Newcastle or Middlesbrough does not have quite the same allure .
2 Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ .
3 They do not cover the Mediterranean , where England does not appear to have played a substantial part in trade until at least after the accession of the Tudors .
4 And , if the SFA or SIB does not have a regime that meets the exchange 's needs , the exchange can move offshore and deal in the UK electronically or by telephone.9
5 At this stage , as Ernst & Young does not have access to the shareholders ' list , it is unaware of the numbers involved , but it estimates that compensation payments may total £1.4m .
6 Taylor says he does not want to get involved in emotional situations — but football is about emotion , and it disappoints me that Taylor does not want to show his .
7 Olsen hopes that Taylor does not go all the way with the long ball game and play big , powerful strikers like Brian Deane and David Hirst .
8 Trent is not alone among regions ; it is merely that Trent does not conceal its statistics .
9 v. S. , Breckenridge and Satnam and Kewal , it was held that Caldwell did not apply to rape .
10 The DPR client was left feeling that DPR did not need his business , it was prospering so much .
11 The irony of it all is that Jim does not eat fish .
12 The House of Lords held that Warner did not have a reasonable excuse within the meaning of the section since his evidence was necessary ( ie really needed ) for the prevention of crime in a general sense .
13 We can only assume that Sussex did not diverge too far from the rest of the southern English religious experience , after its rather late entry into the fold .
14 The Bank refused to reveal the amount paid to previous owners Cabra Estates , but they have told Bates that Chelsea do not have to pay any part of the purchase price for up to 20 years .
15 I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share .
16 Although Newton did not hinder the setting up of a programme in animal morphology under Balfour , he was suspicious of the laboratory-based discipline and played an important role in galvanizing the country 's amateur bird-watchers to form a network that could provide information of real scientific value .
17 Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi , one of CU 's leaders , said that CU did not intend to act as an opposition to the current authorities , but to " propose reasonable action and actively participate in the reforms " .
18 However , the diary makes it quite clear that Beatrice did not want to be associated with what she viewed as primarily a celibate woman 's cause .
19 Although Durkheim did not see economic developments as unimportant , for him they were in no way basic .
20 An overwhelming body of evidence indicates that Nazareth did not exist in biblical times .
21 Although Spenser does not make it explicit , this failure occurs not because of further disruptive forces from outside confronting Artegall but through his recall to the court of the Faerie Queene .
22 Hardy is amused that Richard did not see the steel beneath the silk .
23 It was disconcerting to his whole thesis that Branson did not behave like the enemy enough .
24 Consequently , it has been suggested that Aldfrith did not succeed until after 14 December 685 .
25 They stared impassively at Corbett while their leader talked to Thomas in a tongue that Corbett did not know , though it sounded like birdsong , high , clicking and quick .
26 Indeed , although Hegel does not admit quite what I am now suggesting , he effectively concedes that , given the difference between the sexes , unity between them is impossible .
27 If the complete Porgy reveals anything , it is that Gershwin did not go straight from one hit to another ( as we did here , from ‘ Summertime ’ to ‘ A Woman is a Sometime Thing ’ ) .
28 Nothing would equal that moment and although Richard did not fish every day , he caught a total of 24 fish of various types , during his holiday .
29 I know and you know that Hardy did not think it a sad poem — just a comment and a summing up .
30 I was relieved that Didier did not run after me .
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