Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Have you noticed that most NDBs in the UK have frequencies that end with point five of a kHz — i.e. 350.5 , and maybe you have also noticed that almost without exception , the ADF receiver in light aircraft does not tune to these half kHz but only to whole numbers of kHz ? |
| 3 | Although I generally agree with this statement , the continued denial of risk for patients exposed to HIV-infected HCWs without scientific data does not reassure the population . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ’ And although the old folk do not sit around the fire any more telling stories as they once did — many of the yarns told by Mr Murray 's own father have found their way into his poetry — there are always the excitements and discoveries of the present by way of compensation . |
| 6 | It is not that English people do not lie down in the bedroom , or that French people do not have keys , but rather they choose different salient characteristics for the expression of that specific meaning . |
| 7 | That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses . |
| 8 | The Armaments Inspectorate at Nuremberg , commenting on the successful concealment of preparation for the invasion , noted that ‘ the concentration of numerous troops in the eastern areas had allowed speculation to arise that significant events were afoot there , but nevertheless probably the overwhelming proportion of the German people did not think of any warlike confrontation with the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 9 | Moreover , these dependent people do not reach a social services department in most cases unless the family can not care for them without help . |
| 10 | The Scottish people do n't like Catholics . ’ |
| 11 | Clearly , the British people do not want a return to the failed interventionist , socialist policies of the 1960s and 1970s — and that is another reason why Labour will be defeated at the next general election . |
| 12 | The British people do not want it . |
| 13 | The public opinion polls showed that three quarters of the British people do not want it . |
| 14 | The overwhelming majority of the British people do not want to return to such Victorian values as jobs at any price . |
| 15 | The majority of British people do not find universities attractive or accessible . |
| 16 | If all British people did not feel deeply hurt by this ‘ there 's something wrong with you … ’ |
| 17 | The British people did n't listen to the warnings . |
| 18 | If society generally under-values old age , is it any wonder that old people do not experience a sense of personal worth ? |
| 19 | Lee was startled by the almost aggressive note in Mrs Ridley 's question and had to remind herself that old people do not like change , do not like precipitate action , especially from those they have become used to . |
| 20 | Unlike children , very old people do not have common ‘ norms of development ’ which can be used as quite a precise yardstick in the appraisals we all make of each other . |
| 21 | Old people do not live in a social vacuum , pursuing their personal goals in ways which do not impinge on others . |
| 22 | Old people did not die so often . |
| 23 | I wonder if any Golf Monthly readers could explain to me why golf manufacturers and club professionals are under the illusion that left-handed people do not want to play golf ; or , if they do , then they are able and willing to use right-handed clubs . |
| 24 | Primitive people did n't have our self-imposed restrictions , you see . |
| 25 | This was an important line of argument which showed that many French people did not relish the idea of losing their independence to European bodies . |
| 26 | With good reason , Disney believes that most French people do not share these views . |
| 27 | It is not that English people do not lie down in the bedroom , or that French people do not have keys , but rather they choose different salient characteristics for the expression of that specific meaning . |
| 28 | Most slim people do not behave this way . |
| 29 | We might formulate his newly discovered principle as ‘ One ought not to eat too much ’ , but very probably it would be first encountered by him as ‘ Sensible people do n't eat too much ’ . |
| 30 | The document talks of ’ Inaccessibility the majority of Somali people do not speak English . ’ |