Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [not/n't] [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 2 | The boat did n't come at any scheduled time . |
| 3 | He was relieved somewhat by the fact that the horse did not balk at approaching the house . |
| 4 | Wallace 's angled runs were badly missed : - the Whelan/Deane partnership did not work at the beginning of the season and never looked like it last night . |
| 5 | Li Yuan smiled back at her , handsome in his own way , and loving , too — a good man for all his apparent coldness-yet her blood did n't thrill at his touch , nor did her heart race in her chest the way it was racing now in the presence of Tsu Ma . |
| 6 | The inquiry into Puddephat 's murder did not feature at all . |
| 7 | The first defendant did not live at 150B , High Street , but lived elsewhere in Margate . |
| 8 | The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’ |
| 9 | In a fixed date action , if the defendant has not delivered a defence within the time limited , or in any action where the defendant does not appear at the pre-trial review ( or preliminary arbitration appointment ) , evidence by affidavit is admissible without notice unless the court otherwise orders ( Ord 20 , r 7(2) ; Ord 19 , r 5(2) ; Term No 2 ) . |
| 10 | This way of thinking does not lie at the disposal of the thinker . |
| 11 | Crime does not stop at county borders when it is possible to drive through three counties in an hour . |
| 12 | After installation , if the monitor does not work at all , check that the card is firmly pushed into its slot . |
| 13 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 14 | Mainstream work did not refer at all to the potential role of minority languages in the curriculum , nor to the major debates that have taken place in this area . |
| 15 | When asked a question do not rush at your answer but give yourself a second or two to compose your thoughts . |
| 16 | BLDSC does not deal at all with sets of orchestral scores , non-book materials , fiction , ‘ low level ’ English language monographs and basic texts , playsets and collections of material for ethnic minorities . |
| 17 | The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line . |
| 18 | It should be noted , however , that the symbolism does not stop at this point . |
| 19 | Firstly , as we have earlier shown , old people are not valued in the same way as children ; their suffering does not pull at the public heart-strings so strongly . |
| 20 | Dana was bewitching when she smiled like that and Roman did n't seem at all annoyed by her persistence . |
| 21 | Thus the husband and wife became joint owners and possible tenants ; the children became beneficiaries ; the possible future spouse did not figure at all . |
| 22 | Xorandor does n't laugh at people , he goes along with them at their level , telling them what he knows they want to hear . |
| 23 | She suggests that the educational infrastructure does not exist at all in our present system but could be provided . |
| 24 | The reaction does not occur at 298 K. |
| 25 | Now if the prediction that follows from this maze of premises turns out to be false ( in our example , if the planet does not appear at the predicted location ) , then all that the logic of the situation permits us to conclude is that at least one of the premises must be false . |
| 26 | It is always very low from England , and Eta does not rise at all . |
| 27 | The girls grin did not alter at all as she drew her right hand from her sleeve , holding a large , ancient , projectile-firing pistol , and blew off a large bit of the creature 's head . |
| 28 | My head did n't hurt at all , although it did feel a bit light . |
| 29 | Why , when the King did not arrive at Kinghorn , did Queen Yolande not send out a search-party ? |
| 30 | Even the highly coloured reports sent in to the Propaganda Ministry had to accept in March 1945 that the crisis of confidence in the leadership did not stop at Hitler , and the point was underlined much more forcefully in final reports from the ‘ opinion research ’ office of the SD . |