Example sentences of "in [noun prp] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Welsh in Shrewsbury do not invite notice , especially by night , my lord . |
| 2 | Even now , she thought , if ordeals like that first night in Nice did not happen again , it might yet be possible . |
| 3 | The black sacks full of fetid rubbish that are to be seen in Lambeth do not meet the eye on entering Wandsworth . |
| 4 | Police in Sunderland do not know if the badly decomposed remains found in the River Wear are male or female . |
| 5 | The family connections of the Pastons in Norfolk do not seem to have been quite so far-reaching among the gentry families there as those of the Stonors , although Margaret Mauteby , the wife of the elder John Paston , was the daughter of another gentleman of the shire . |
| 6 | Some 40 per cent of services in Flanders do not employ such staff ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 7 | Madame Butterfly at the Teatro Regio in Parma did not offer us much in the way of solid information . |
| 8 | The weekend with chums in Chichester did not seem , on the Monday 's showing , to have left Micky Banks much time to look at his lines . |
| 9 | Lord Macnaghten in Pemsel did not aspire to a definition , but only to a classification of the then existing case law . |
| 10 | In a telling phrase Lord Scarman argued : ‘ The social conditions in Brixton do not provide an excuse for disorder . |
| 11 | It is therefore perhaps unsurprising that the problem over the loss of providing powers in Bedfordshire did not appear to be a major one in the context of such close co-operation and joint endeavour to promote the growth of rural adult education at that time . |
| 12 | Don Juan was in exile and his supporters in Spain did not have the military or political support necessary to effect a successful coup . |
| 13 | It added dryly that heavy discounting by Texas Home Care in Scotland did not bode well for the sector , and included a range of profit downgrades — from previous forecasts of between £108m and £118m down to between £100m and £110m for this year , and between £110m and £125m for next year . |
| 14 | The social workers in Orkney did not go to the children 's teachers before the removal of the children to find out if there were any problems at school . |
| 15 | Since her social life in Northam did not exist outside school , she had no evening clothes , and had had nothing resembling a party dress since the age of six , when she had possessed a fetching little garment of pink satin . |
| 16 | While the King found it convenient to have a source of income that Parliament could not touch or question , people in England did not reckon the advantages of colonies in terms of the grants of revenue that they could make . |
| 17 | Hardly a county in England did not possess extensive heathlands . |
| 18 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 19 | It was once explained to me that most Asians in Yorkshire do not play cricket anyway , but that those who did were genuinely encouraged to join Yorkshire League clubs . |
| 20 | I accept that individual cases are studied carefully , but Sikhs from the Punjab think that the Home Office department in Croydon does not believe any Sikh from the Punjab who claims political asylum . |
| 21 | Chinese students in Beijing did not march as their counterparts did in several provincial cities . |
| 22 | ( e ) The House in Morris did not regard themselves as saying anything which conflicted with Lawrence . |
| 23 | Lord Lane CJ stated : ( a ) If there was a conflict between Lawrence and Morris , the latter was to be preferred , but the Lords in Morris did not see a conflict . |
| 24 | ( Just one of the confusing matters in this area of the law is that Lord Roskill in Morris did not say this . ) |
| 25 | The war in Abyssinia did not have much effect on the people of Fontanellato . |
| 26 | Stan O'Donnell , Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , privately dismissed this to us a politically meaningless ; and made out his case that ideology in Africa does not count any more — economic need is deciding what happens . |
| 27 | His involvement in Traidcraft does not go unnoticed . |
| 28 | In practice , its mission will be to make sure the Contras in Honduras do not infiltrate Nicaragua , and to keep the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas in El Salvador from seeking shelter in Honduras . |
| 29 | Differences between the studies include the fact that Canadian workers ‘ receive a substantial proportion ( 20–40% ) of their total exposure as an internal dose ( largely due to tritium ) , ’ that workers in Ontario did not have the types of chemical exposure received by the Sellafield workers , and that some of the control fathers with high doses were uranium miners . |
| 30 | For example , planners in China do not seem aware of the cohort structure their population might have in decades to come if the drastic reductions in fertility introduced in the 1970s are maintained for 20 or 30 years . |