Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is easy to have the wool pulled over your eyes if you do n't know the ropes or do n't have someone reliable to operate for you , ’ a contented owner of property in Portugal told me . |
| 2 | The imminent publication of guidelines on employing counsellors in primary care prepared by a working party of the British Association for Counselling will greatly help those family health services authorities and general practitioners who have yet to develop such guidelines or do not understand how to assess the qualifications and competence of counsellors they wish to employ and work with . |
| 3 | Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences . |
| 4 | Many of his fellow British actors — throughout the years — only affected to despise the movies : they themselves were not asked to do them or , if asked , played minor roles or did not get the hang of it at all . |
| 5 | Where the action is for unliquidated damages and the defendant delivers an admission of liability for the claim but disputes or does not admit the amount of the plaintiff 's dam ages , then : ( 1 ) if the defendant offers to pay in satisfaction of the claim a specific sum which the plaintiff accepts , the provisions of this rule shall apply as if the defendant had admitted part of the plaintiff 's claim ; and ( 2 ) in any other case , the plaintiff may apply to the court for such judgment as he may be entitled to upon the admission , and the court may give such judgment , including interlocutory judgment for damages to be assessed and costs , or make such other order on the application as it thinks just . |
| 6 | Many firms take risks that do not come off . |
| 7 | In fact , there are relatively few morphological , physiological or behavioural characteristics that do not differ to some extent between males and females ( see Glucksman , 1974 ) and the extent of these differences varies widely between species . |
| 8 | Janet Russell ( March 25 ) performs traditional and contemporary songs that do n't duck today 's issues — especially women 's — with wit and humour . |
| 9 | I should add that some of the most interesting echinoderms are also some of the rarest — peculiar , plated animals that do not fit comfortably into the array of living forms . |
| 10 | Marwell Zoological Park are hosting the Pet Corner where you can meet face to face those animals that do NOT make the perfect pets . |
| 11 | Invertebrates are generally defined as animals that do not have a backbone or internal skeleton and that simple definition takes in around 97% of the whole of the living species of animals in the world . |
| 12 | Many animals that do not inhabit the especially favoured areas all the time , none the less make use of them in the course of their lives . |
| 13 | It features main bearing caps that do n't have to be individually matched to the block — something that could make the production process of any engine much easier . |
| 14 | These might be seen as representing early ‘ experiments ’ in dolphin lifestyles that did not persist , despite the abundance of the species involved . |
| 15 | Those that do are , it turns out , using methods that do not meet scientific criteria for routine use in the workplace , the OTA reported . |
| 16 | This is best treated with trans-cutaneous nerve stimulators , acupuncture , chiropractic , nerve block injections or surgery , physiotherapy , relaxation therapy , Alexander therapy , meditation and other methods that do not use mood-altering chemicals . |
| 17 | Now ‘ I sound very much like dis ’ and have spent a small fortune at the chemists on cold remedies that do n't work . |
| 18 | Erm and so kids that do n't come on the Friday , tend to come with their parents on Saturday . |
| 19 | Like the animals in a taxidermist 's or a museum , with their glass eyes that do n't move . |
| 20 | The chief superintendent was a man in his forties , with thinning hair and pale blue eyes that did n't seem to blink . |
| 21 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 22 | Power resides elsewhere , in other places and in parties that do not need urban parliamentary seats . |
| 23 | The industry has marketed Britain energetically as a year-round destination , with many attractions that do not leave the visitor at the mercy of our fickle weather . |
| 24 | Fleischmann has had some excellent ideas including methods to measure the surface diffraction of X-rays and he has made a detailed study of electrolysis in solutions that do not conduct electricity . |
| 25 | In his influential book , The Competitive Advantage of Nations , Michael Porter of Harvard Business School concludes un-equivocally : ‘ The structure of the British capital markets has contributed to corporate goals that do not support investment and innovation . ’ |
| 26 | Last year the judges debated at length how to mark entries that did not follow the drawings to the letter , but showed evidence of good economical production turning techniques . |
| 27 | The number of pregnancies that do not produce a viable infant but end in miscarriage , induced abortion or stillbirth or , of those that result in a live born baby with serious health impairment , can not be reliably assessed but it may be put at a much larger figure . |
| 28 | Teasers are copylines or images that do not mention the service or product , but whet your appetite to discover more . |
| 29 | It can also be seen from the results that as the level of processing increases , the ability to recognise a word correctly increasingly exceeds the ability to recognise words that do not fulfill the task . |
| 30 | in word processing or desktop publishing this is a store of pre-hyphenated words that do not conform to the usual rules contained in the hyphenation and justification program ( H&J ) . |