Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 My car do n't carry documents either . ’
2 Worries that the relocated employees faced were finding employment for relocated spouses and ensuring that the relocation did not affect children 's schooling .
3 The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters .
4 Councillors decided to uphold Mr Sprayson 's appeal because they said his action did n't put children in danger .
5 The Prayer Boat do n't write songs , so much as swells of piano and guitar which float the peculiar Mike Scott-like voice of Emmet Tinley .
6 Mr Trotter as slightly taken aback by this stupid suggestion , as his scientific mind did n't include ghosts .
7 Even in those early years , when honest old men were tossing out such useful snippets of information as ‘ Macrobius would be the man ’ , the college did not provide soulmates of the kind Lewis always craved .
8 For many years the College did not provide pensions for members of staff , let alone dependents .
9 The defendant did not commence proceedings against the appellant until 7 March 1988 .
10 This chapter does not ask counsellors to pretend to be doctors , but to question whether ill-health is not more concerned with social/emotional factors , such as poor diet and lack of fitness , than with normal ageing .
11 In Tizard 's view , fostering does not offer children the security of adoption : the uncertainty disturbed the children and contacts with the natural parents aroused anxiety in them .
12 A change in perception does not alter facts .
13 The fee for burial does not include charges for grave-digging , which may be carried out by a parochial officer ( in which case the vicar sets the charge ) , or by a grave-digger hired by the funeral director .
14 In fact , the social action programme does not contain proposals related to low pay , as the hon. Lady suggested .
15 The one minor gripe I have is that the Pioneer does n't have mudguards .
16 As the figure does not cover families , yesterday 's decision to grant rights of entry to 50,000 households is likely to cover less than 20 per cent of those it targeted .
17 A man who goes in for abduction does n't merit explanations , and neither , ’ she went on , warming to her subject , ‘ does anyone who can purloin other people 's property , quite deliberately and without conscience , have any right to spout morals at me . ’
18 ‘ My club does n't need gimmicks .
19 Diners Club claims its customers ' average transactions are higher than those of other charge cards , but this is difficult to substantiate as Diners Club does not make figures available .
20 Harry Tomalin was to write ( erroneously ) ‘ The Club does not buy bonds and the market is limited ’ and he offered to find a buyer at ‘ about half face value ’ .
21 The mind does not play tricks with us ; it holds no secret compartments .
22 Then , greatly daring , because somehow she had to know , ‘ You … you said your girlfriend does n't like cats .
23 Researchers — and cynics — say that research does n't give answers but only throws up more questions .
24 It also makes sure that the extra load of the solenoid valve does not cause problems due to sudden voltage drops .
25 Ideological practice does not constitute subjects as such , but particular subjects who have the belief that all subjects share some traits in common .
26 The Department does not hold figures for the proposed capital expenditure on secondary schools in the borough of Sunderland in 1991-92 .
27 The clothier does n't serve consumers in general , it caters to its own customer base .
28 Conducted professionally , regression therapy does not involve subjects being taken back to childhood ‘ by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged … ’
29 The adoption by the BCP congress of a moderate reformist manifesto did not dissuade members of a BCP faction calling itself the Alternative Socialist Organization ( ASO — the most radical of several pro-reform factions which had emerged in the party in January ) from carrying out a threat to split from the BCP and form a new social democratic party .
30 It concluded that Community law did not impose requirements concerning the granting to ships of flag rights .
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