Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 2 | The only bookcase he has is stacked with video tapes whose titles I do not read . |
| 3 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 4 | I have said many times I do not wish to hire yes-men . |
| 5 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 6 | So if you start using scare quotes , it may be the words you do not put them round which become the problem . |
| 7 | Alternatively , you have tried to create a new user without CREATE USER privilege , or you have tried to give a user privileges you do not have yourself , or you have tried to reduce the LIFESPAN Manager 's privileges . |
| 8 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 9 | As we explained in chapter 1 , for most variables we do not have such direct observations and can not therefore carry out the tests . |
| 10 | Lawyers and judges talk to each other in ways the prisoner in the dock can not always understand ; doctors diagnose patients for medical students in a language which they know the patient will not follow ( though there are also valid scientific reasons for this ) ; and parents spell out words they do not want children to understand . |
| 11 | As for certainties , ’ he frowned , ‘ I am a friar as you see , one who has taken vows of poverty but I am also a little of a philosopher and certainties I do not believe to exist . ’ |
| 12 | In arguing that the instrumental response is quite proper in some circumstances I do not mean to imply that it always can operate . |
| 13 | But I have found no evidence of maladministration by the DoE or the Health and Safety Executive and in the circumstances I do not question the merits of the decision allowing the appeals . ’ |
| 14 | From mysteries you do not want to look at . |
| 15 | At Carnival Cruise Lines we do not have any minimum age limits as we judge each person on his or her ability and personality . |
| 16 | Birds and beasts have senses we do not have . |
| 17 | But in embryonic wounds we do not see lamellipodia . |
| 18 | By their combination they prevent the master employing any journeymen they do not approve of , who as they say is not a fair man ; and all journeymen must ask the constable of the shop , for the time being , ( an officer appointed by the combination ) for work before they ask the master . |
| 19 | It is submitted that in these circumstances they do not do well enough with the written word . |
| 20 | The recent history of liberal response to urban deprivation as it affects groups like women is littered with the unmet commitments and unfulfilled promises of such initiatives : each highly circumscribed ; each mediated through the transitory commitment of part-time interlopers in communities in which they do not live , among women whose lives they do not share ; and all controlled elsewhere . |
| 21 | In most cases you do not need to change your environment or what at present is your life or your job . |
| 22 | ‘ It is true that I fear the part of your nature which at times you do not care to control , ’ Alexei said steadily . |
| 23 | What I would have done without it in recent weeks I do not know . |
| 24 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 25 | The method used in the past few years has been simple — ignore names put forward by organisations you do not approve of and pack the committees with more sympathetic interest groups . |
| 26 | For some purposes we do not need to know which modes of vibration are responsible for which IR or Raman bands , but sometimes we must go further , and assign the bands in the spectrum to particular modes . |
| 27 | As a result , the military have bases they do not require , weapon systems they do not need , to meet threats that do not exist . |
| 28 | May I ask of any of your readers have any of these cutters they do not need and would wish to sell them ? |
| 29 | They often have expensive toys they 've grown out of or they 've records and tapes they do not listen to anymore . |
| 30 | Canids and felids also date from this time ( Savage , 1965 ) , but like hyaenids they do not become common until the middle Miocene . |