Example sentences of "[noun pl] do [adv] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally came men who did not own freehold land : husbandmen , servants in husbandry and the servants of artificers — anyone whose estate in goods and chattels did not exceed £10 . |
| 2 | It is fortunate for the further success of the breed that the liaison between these two animals did not produce fruit , except on one occasion , since the bitch was in fact a long coat , and thus unable to be registered with the ADRK . |
| 3 | As an engineer in California observed in the aftermath of the state 's 1989 quake : ‘ Earthquakes do n't kill people . |
| 4 | No licence is needed for a motor vehicle and drawbar trailer combination if the gross plated weights do not exceed 3500kg , or , if unplated , the total unladen weights do not exceed 1525kg . |
| 5 | No licence is needed for a motor vehicle and drawbar trailer combination if the gross plated weights do not exceed 3500kg , or , if unplated , the total unladen weights do not exceed 1525kg . |
| 6 | If you think books do n't change people , just look at Changez , because undreamed-of possibilities in the sex line suddenly occurred to him , a man recently married and completely celibate who saw Britain as we saw Sweden : as the goldmine of sexual opportunity . |
| 7 | Provided rents do not exceed £3,250 a year , they will be fully exempt . |
| 8 | The problem is that , because the broadcasters do not want people to receive their signals this way , information is not openly available . |
| 9 | The courts first began to take obscenity seriously as a result of private prosecutions brought in the early nineteenth century by the Society for the Suppression of Vice , dubbed by Sydney Smith " a society for suppressing the vices of those whose incomes do not exceed £500 per annum " . |
| 10 | In the county court and High Court , claims for costs must be assessed if they do not exceed £500 and a solicitor may opt for assessment where costs do not exceed £1,000 ( Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 ) . |
| 11 | Because the circumstances of many cattle thefts did not encourage people to initiate prosecutions , the statistics greatly underestimated the extent of the crime . |
| 12 | This is important in order to ensure that patients and their families do not categorise staff members as good or bad depending on their role in the ward — eg , viewing the nurse supervising the nutritional programme as authoritarian and the sympathetic night nurse as a special confidante . |
| 13 | Echoing the logic of the gun lobby ( ‘ guns do n't kill people ; people kill people ’ ) , the company 's chairman argues that the problem is not with his product , but with under-age drinking . |
| 14 | If she is still under 60 when her husband claims his state pension and does not work or her earnings do not exceed £43.1 0 , he should be able to obtain a supplement of around £32.55 to his pension , on the grounds of having a wife to support . |
| 15 | It also had the effect of materially abridging the business of loan societies , most whose loans did not exceed £20 . |
| 16 | The Small Companies Rate applies where profits do not exceed £250,000 with marginal relief up to profits of £1,250,000 . |
| 17 | A lot of local authorities which have not set up criteria for assessments do n't have staff specifically to do them . ’ |
| 18 | Offensive odours do however put people in a ‘ bad mood ’ . |
| 19 | Socialists do n't like people choosing , for they might not choose socialism . ’ |
| 20 | Huy himself , who had had to adapt to the new world constructed after Akhenaten 's fall by Horemheb , had learnt above all that ideals do not change people . |
| 21 | And , under current Government regulations , provided that your total borrowing for house purchase and home improvements does n't exceed £30,000 the interest on your Home Improvement Loan may qualify for tax relief . |
| 22 | The family refused to be reassured by the expert 's promises that poltergeists did not harm people . |
| 23 | The question , posed by the Tobacco Advisory Council , was asking if readers knew that if smokers did not pay £11.5 million a day in tax , the basic rate of income tax would rise by about 5p in the pound . |
| 24 | So that if everyone if if people who wrote the dictionaries did n't know people 'd still be going round thinking that everyone said fore head or break fast . |
| 25 | The director 's emoluments must also be included in the bandings in the note to the accounts unless all the directors ' aggregate emoluments do not exceed £60,000 ( Sch 6 para 1 and para 4 , CA 85 ) . |
| 26 | For a great book by a great man , in the original holland-backed boards , collectors do not begrudge £3,000-£4,000 , according to condition . |
| 27 | In Emmen-7 , for example , the porosity and permeability of the dolomites does not exceed 7% and 1 mD , respectively ( Fig. 21 ) . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 29 | Where the interest is that of a shareholder and the total nominal value of the shares does not exceed £1,000 or one-hundredth part of the total nominal value of the issue share capital ( whichever is the less ) , the interest must still be disclosed , but the prohibition on taking part in the discussion and voting does not apply . |