Example sentences of "[noun pl] do not [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In its ruling , however , the IWT also drew attention to the issue of energy use per se : " ( Environmental ) procedures and the generation of ever more information on impacts do not help avoid the essential issue that industrialized countries should reduce their wasteful energy consumption , rather than enlarging the capacity to create energy " .
2 It was the first time in American history that serving officers did not dare say what their commander-in-chief had told them to do .
3 The enduring point is that close links did not make finance the slave of industry .
4 All over Europe homosexuals are on the retreat from public activity : it is important that homosexual women and men do not let go of their responsibility for their own lives , as is now the case in England .
5 Genuine elections followed , but the democratic rulers did not dare put their military predecessors on trial .
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