Example sentences of "most [n mass] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people do not drink enough plain water — so invest in a water filter to try mineral waters . |
| 2 | Most people do not think of the Department of Social Security as a great taxing Department , but it raises enormous sums that go into the national insurance fund to pay benefits . |
| 3 | Most people do not realise how much they could increase their pleasure , success and income by reading faster and more accurately . |
| 4 | In other areas , especially work , most people do not want to renounce enough of their instinctual satisfactions necessary to produce the wealth . |
| 5 | Most people do not want such offences to be tolerated . |
| 6 | Most people do not want to vote in a right-wing government so much as to get rid of a discredited and deeply unpopular Socialist government . |
| 7 | Most people do not make their position explicit , partly at least because this is still one of the many questions to which we have uncertain answers . |
| 8 | Hunting is very complicated and most people do not know about hunting or how it is done so they do n't like it and say that it is cruel . |
| 9 | Today in –Great Britain most people do not use the word . |
| 10 | He points out that a lot of abstract painting uses harsh shapes and that most people do not like it , preferring curves and gentle changes of outline direction . |
| 11 | I have to admit that I was cynical about the whole idea , most people do not like the idea of opening up their machine , let alone replacing the processor , however this opinion changed as the next speaker started . |
| 12 | Most people do not realize that Jews can pray together without a rabbi , and that the rabbi 's job is often to clarify a point of law or resolve a dispute , rather than to lead a congregation in prayer . |
| 13 | However , most people do not have the opportunity to obtain adequate vitamin D from this source . |
| 14 | But most people do not have a dish , and according to the projections of Continental Research , will not have one by the end of the century . |
| 15 | Initially , the transmitters will serve only Jos , and others will later be built elsewhere ; but most people do not have mains electricity . |
| 16 | Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors . |
| 17 | Fortunately most people do n't go to therapy . |
| 18 | Most people do n't care if they live or die , but a few are willing to risk imprisonment by going on to the streets to hand out clean syringes . |
| 19 | ‘ Now most people do n't bat an eye . |
| 20 | After all , most people do n't think much of Liverpool as a place to work and live in , though I think it 's fantastic and I live in greater style — in the wing of a large Victorian house — than I could in the South . |
| 21 | Most people do n't think that children should be represented in Parliament by children . |
| 22 | They 're the small items which most people do n't want to buy . |
| 23 | ‘ Most people do n't face emergencies as a matter of course , and no one expects them to be anything but human . ’ |
| 24 | Most people do n't bother to go . |
| 25 | Approximately that now I 've it 's very y'know woolly , most people do n't bother but you should really do the scatter plot to see whether a relationship is linear as opposed to something like that which would be curvier linear . |
| 26 | But unless you hand them over to somebody else completely , which most people do n't feel is a very satisfactory arrangement , you 're left with that problem . |
| 27 | What , at least it will enable you to know what the tropical species are because some of them have got quite weird and wonderful names and most people do n't know what some of them are . |
| 28 | Most people do n't know , after all . |
| 29 | ‘ Most people do n't know anything about it . ’ |
| 30 | The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation , and most people do n't know their rights . |