Example sentences of "the [noun pl] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many students ' essays demonstrate that their writers know the relevant material ; however , the essays do not demonstrate this knowledge within a coherent or developing argument . |
| 2 | find some means to show that the counter-examples do not work ; |
| 3 | I do hope the senders do not mind my reproducing them , but they certainly brightened Mike 's and my days as we slogged through the sorting and despatching process : |
| 4 | But many of the people living in the maisonettes do not want to leave . |
| 5 | In other words , there is one fund and the accounts do not divulge the whereabouts of specific monies paid into it , only the whereabouts of the monies in the fund as a whole . |
| 6 | In either case , the court may declare that the accounts do not comply and may order the directors to prepare revised accounts . |
| 7 | The programmes do not affect boys and need to combat their sexism . |
| 8 | This model of the internal structure of the company acknowledges that the shareholders do not control those who manage the company and instead entrusts this task to a reconstituted board . |
| 9 | The resulting ‘ optimal ’ control structure finds no place for active shareholder involvement , and hence the fact that the shareholders do not participate is a non-issue . |
| 10 | Except where the packing is perfect , as in paraffins and in some polyacetylenes , the chains do not adopt a unique structure but may partake of crystalline order in some regions ; while in other parts a quasi-amorphous state is found , with all possible grades of disorder between . |
| 11 | The artists do not have to be able to draw , though it helps : they do , however , have to be able to ‘ visualize ’ a design or a film and be able to explain their ideas by words and rough pictures so that a specialized artist or photographer can produce the finished illustration . |
| 12 | One possibility would be for water companies to install phosphate strippers in sewage works , and machinery to keep water moving in reservoirs , as the blooms do not form on active surfaces . |
| 13 | The public policy issue in these cases is that the courts do not want to deter rescue and it has been held that a duty of care is owed to rescuers ( Chadwick v British Railways Board [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 912 ) . |
| 14 | Although the courts do not refuse in principle to review the exercise of police discretionary powers , they do nevertheless exercise a great deal of caution and restraint to such a degree that it is difficult to see how in practice the principles of judicial review are capable of being used to challenge decisions to issue warrants where these are considered to be necessary for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 15 | The courts do not appear to consider that legal representation is an absolute requirement of the rule although there is a readiness to imply it if procedural rules are silent . |
| 16 | The courts do not appear to have been troubled by the notion of an issue being determined by an expert other than an individual . |
| 17 | Finally the courts do not appear to exhibit such a protective attitude towards the employee when asked to control his misuse of business secrets . |
| 18 | On the other hand , damages are not a discretionary remedy and so the courts do not have as much control over the award of this remedy as over the judicial review remedies . |
| 19 | In Northern Regional Health Authority v Derek Crouch Construction Co Ltd [ 1984 ] 1 QB 644 , the Court of Appeal held that the courts do not have jurisdiction over certain types of building disputes because of the wording of the arbitration clause in the construction industry 's standard form contracts , and that the court should not alter agreed machinery for resolving disputes where that machinery has not broken down . |
| 20 | This case can perhaps be explained on policy grounds as the plaintiff was a rescuer and the courts do not wish to deter rescue . |
| 21 | That construction is intended to ensure that the courts do not substitute their view for that of the administrator just because they believe that a different conclusion would be more reasonable . |
| 22 | In the present context , the importance of the Mareva injunction lies in the associated order that there be disclosure of the nature and location of the assets covered by the injunction ( and possibly of other assets , though the courts do not seem to have gone this far ) and of documents relating to those assets . |
| 23 | The courts do not like this sort of clause . |
| 24 | In practice , the courts do not like to rely on unreasonableness alone but rather to base the decision on the fact that irrelevant considerations have been taken into account , etc. ( see Bromley London B.C. v. GLC ( H.L. , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | The courts do not hear a large number of cases , but they are the major source , apart from Parliament , of the legal rules governing administrative action . |
| 26 | The courts do not encourage Luddism . |
| 27 | Today , the Germans do not envisage doing it any other way either . |
| 28 | The notes do not set out the full legal requirements . |
| 29 | As all notes are ( in theory ) the same in melodic strength , and none predominates over the others , the notes do not have a decisive tendency to ‘ go somewhere ’ . |
| 30 | What are you doing in this strange land , where even the birds do not fly ? " |