Example sentences of "[coord] [n mass] [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them . |
| 2 | Being an intellectual or bourgeois did n't help that much in itself but those of their own journalists and professors they 'd sent to the remote prison island of their archipelago , Guru , had n't been systematically tortured ; just neatly excised from society for twenty years or the stay of their natural existences . |
| 3 | Few figures are available from the 1955 Census and data does not exist in this detail for intervening years . |
| 4 | Asked if they would lose respect for a woman who was prepared to sleep with them on a first date , 24% neither agree nor disagree ; 18% strongly disagree ; 17% tend to disagree ; 16% tend to agree ; 15% strongly agree and 10% do n't know . |
| 5 | 11% do n't know whether he has or not , and 4% do n't want to know . |
| 6 | According to a survey by recruitment consultants Challoner James , 40% of employers reduced their accountancy staff during 1992 and 71% do not anticipate recruiting any new staff before June . |
| 7 | And when we decided intensive veg and livestock did not mix , our gentleman farmer/neighbour bred our pests for us . |
| 8 | It would be no good putting together a menu that required certain equipment to be used and staff did n't have the ability to use it . |
| 9 | used to have them in the pub and then to play it back and people did n't realise it was there voice you know . |
| 10 | In January nineteen forty , a scientist named Charles Barrell , er was examining that portrait , not as an art historian , but scientifically , and of course there 's always the question with portraits of what might be under it , because er canvas was very very expensive and people did n't waste materials then as they do now , because they were in relatively short supply , good painting canvas . |
| 11 | You had to buy too many fonts , and it was too expensive , and people did n't want to by linotype matrices of that size . |
| 12 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 13 | The experiment of giving hard-currency incentives [ see p. 36855 ] had not worked properly because it had been introduced too late in the year and people did not know how to operate it . |
| 14 | And people do n't care what it is Geoff as long as they 're getting something , do they ? |
| 15 | And we and people do n't go to butchers any more . |
| 16 | And people do n't want it . |
| 17 | is n't forever and people do n't think often enough |
| 18 | ‘ And people do n't have two lots of make-up , ’ said Sam . |
| 19 | And people do n't need to either . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's great because I can ride it to the beach and people do n't recognise me beneath the helmet . |
| 21 | You have more power , you feel more confident , and people do n't look down on you . |
| 22 | If you 're not a member of the club and you 're not accepted the rituals and people do n't like you , they wo n't tell you and as a result you wo n't be an effective hunter , you wo n't be able to support many wives even if you wanted them and if you have wives what they needed , because if a man does n't feed his wives they , they , they all eventually get up and go , they 'll say two fingers you know , you ca n't feed us . |
| 23 | So we have think about making sure that we use or if we use a word and people do n't understand it |
| 24 | ‘ And people do n't notice them . |
| 25 | It is , it is dang and people do n't realize how , they 're like oh the snow 's soft , but |
| 26 | It is a very fast road and people do not realise how fast they are going . ’ |
| 27 | There are certain advantages to the PC version ; it is menu-driven and people do not have to learn any computer system to be able to use it . |
| 28 | ‘ And people do not understand how physically to vote . |
| 29 | erm I think it 's really encouraged by the fact that the erm gipsy sites which one sees around the County at the present moment because there is very little control over them , are most unsightly and do considerable damage to the countryside , and people do not wish this to happen in their own area . |
| 30 | As I recall , the Chairman of Ways and Means did not attempt to resolve this situation — he did so . |