Example sentences of "not [vb infin] their [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HP , IBM and the rest of the COSE firms say their effort does not affect their operating system plans in any shape or form . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp and the rest of the Common Open System Environment companies were quick to step forward and stress that their collaboration on the interface does not affect their Unix operating system plans in any shape or form . |
| 3 | Most streetwise dealers will not make their home telephone numbers available to clients . |
| 4 | The FA Cup finalists are on their way to Wembley but they can not reproduce their knockout form in bread-and-butter Second Division matches . |
| 5 | Over 90 per cent of the women in the sample felt that tax rates did not influence their work behaviour , with the remainder being about equally divided between the other two options . |
| 6 | For example , if you have already made available literature dealing with questions such as holidays/pensions/conditions of work and the candidate chooses to ask about them it may well indicate that she/he is the sort of person who does not do their background work thoroughly . |
| 7 | The fact that R&D-intensive companies in some sectors may not perceive their market rating as appropriate to their future profitability is ‘ a symptom of a communication problem ’ ( pharmaceutical/health care company ) ; an inappropriate market rating is due to a ‘ failure of communications rather than a failure in accounting ’ ( metals and mining sector company ) . |
| 8 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 9 | With the end of the First World War , the Germans left , but did not remove their client State . |
| 10 | Businesses will have to remain in financial balance and take great care that their expansionist ambitions do not outpace their financing ability . |
| 11 | For example , a group of people I studied in Madagascar changed their marriage system in response to changing economic circumstances but did not adjust their kinship terminology [ Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 12 | When Mr John Guy , an orthopaedic surgeon at the Worcester Royal Infirmary , wrote to people on his waiting list to say that health authority cuts meant that they could not have their hip replacement operations , a patient passed a copy of his letter to Nicholas Ridley . |
| 13 | But Alex Ferguson , secretly plotting to solve United 's goalscoring crisis , is getting desperate and will not give up easily , even though Wednesday maintain they will not sell their prize asset . |
| 14 | This does not mean that , as a survival technique , individual species can not vary their body size to suit circumstances . |
| 15 | They have shown by their tasteless and tactless menace tonight that they are still not prepared to take on board the problems of people who can not pay their poll tax because they do not have sufficient funds . |
| 16 | We could do something tonight by having the Minister announce that magistrates will stop putting in prison people who can not pay their poll tax . |
| 17 | In England and Wales , people may still be imprisoned if they do not pay their council tax . |
| 18 | Among the many popular items in this Bill is the provision that councillors who will not pay their community charge or their council tax will not in future be entitled to vote on setting a budget for their local authorities — |
| 19 | Those , they would argue , can not be shot since they will not leave their burrow system , and so they can be left until another day , when perhaps they will decide to bolt more readily . |
| 20 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 21 | One might define the lines which form the cube 's sides as the shortest distances between pairs of points ; but this would not express their motive cause which Hobbes conceives them to have . |
| 22 | There can not be many general booksellers who do not broaden their product range beyond books at certain times of the year . |
| 23 | Their ancient adversaries , the spiders , never developed wings , but they did not allow their insect prey to escape totally . |
| 24 | Periclimenes shrimps are superficially similar in appearance to Harlequin Shrimp species but do not harm their host anemone or sea cucumber . |
| 25 | An earlier view of second language knowledge was that only children could acquire while adults learned , but Krashen maintains that adults do not lose their language acquisition device and make considerable use of natural learning of the second language . |
| 26 | If his medicine is not visibly working soon , he will , like many of the unfortunate people who can not afford their mortgage payment , have to be evicted from his comfortable home . ’ |
| 27 | The prescription of glasses may not help their reading distance , but they may be able to read adequately by holding their books at closer than the normal distance . |
| 28 | However , where the directors are together the majority shareholders , they must not abuse their voting control to discriminate against the minority . |
| 29 | And they do n't make their home debut until April 30 . |
| 30 | I think it would erm I do n't think their concentration span |