Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being uncomplicated , the riders tend not to take much notice of it and in their minds , they have already finished . |
| 2 | The popular songs of the day encapsulated perfectly its mood — patriotism , courage , facile optimism masking anxiety and heartache : ‘ Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer ’ ; ‘ There 'll Always be an England ’ ( even the Scots seemed not to mind this ! ) ; |
| 3 | Accordingly , makers and dealers in ‘ bootleg ’ recordings did not commit this tort even though their activities very seriously affected the value of a contract giving a recording company the exclusive right to exploit live performances . |
| 4 | Rights and privileges do not pose any particular problems in the case of children . |
| 5 | The current guidelines do not cover these matters and this will obviously vary from project to project . |
| 6 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 7 | But that modern schools struggled to make themselves in various ways as academic as grammar schools did not entail any real equality between the two kinds of school . |
| 8 | The direct-grant schools did not like these proposals , and had little to gain from them . |
| 9 | Transport nevertheless remained a major problem , and as Commandos ' equipment for raiding roles did not include those infantryman 's delights of defensive wire and mines — not , that is , in the normal course — they always had problems in battles of attrition . |
| 10 | On the other hand , cash reserves do not earn any return for the bank . |
| 11 | In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation . |
| 12 | Most of the dentists do not have any educational qualifications . |
| 13 | The statistics show that 64% of cars do not have any form of security device and the chances of having your car stolen is a high as one in 40 . |
| 14 | I feel that most umpires do not consider this obvious fact , much to the bowler 's detriment . |
| 15 | At low frequencies the signals do not have much carrying capacity , but go too high and the oxygen and hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere can actually vibrate in sympathy with the radio waves , absorbing the signals . |
| 16 | However , many computers do not have this facility and a procedure to clear to the end of the screen would be useful . |
| 17 | Worryingly , the British Medical Association today suggests those measures like head guards do not offer any real protection . |
| 18 | As delivered , these cars did not carry any destination equipment , but new cars delivered in 1906 and subsequently , had wooden destination boxes on tall stanchions above the ends of the upper deck . |
| 19 | It will not be enough to define a term as a " condition " or " warranty " , for a court may decide that the parties did not intend any breach of a term labelled a " condition " to give rise to a right to withdraw , and thus disregard the label given to the term by the parties ( Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [ 1974 ] AC 235 ) . |
| 20 | ( i ) The parties did not agree that delivery could be by instalments . |
| 21 | However , in nine cases out of ten the parties do not appreciate this fact . |
| 22 | But some insurers do not offer this wider cover . |
| 23 | Simplistic hierarchies do not meet this criterion . |
| 24 | It should be added , though the authors do not mention this , that the highly solidaristic ideology of mining communities in the North-East of Britain may well be of great importance in sustaining these egalitarian working groups and that they may not be viable in other areas where a more individualistic ideology is adhered to . |
| 25 | He also contends that the senior rugby nations do not disseminate enough information on rugby injuries to protect everyone playing this game in all 120 or so countries . |
| 26 | In addition one of the subjects did not show any fluctuations in risk ratings , in debriefing he explained that he certainly could imagine many risky situations , but he had not encountered any during the drive . |
| 27 | Native speakers do not recognise this , but foreign learners of English notice that it is often difficult to hear the unstressed parts of a word in ordinary speech . |
| 28 | Even if our ministries do not take that form of living as radically as that , incarnation does challenge each of us to apply the message of Christ . |
| 29 | Waking subjects do not have any more difficulty remembering the most chaotic dreams than the most coherent . |
| 30 | He argued that since human readers do not use such information it is not necessary for successful recognition . |