Example sentences of "that [n mass] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the eggs have hatched all surplus rockwork can be removed , to ensure that fry do not get trapped under it . |
| 2 | To speak differently , if e had not occurred , then even if there had also occurred any change x logically consistent with the absences of e and of cc , and consistent with the absences of links between cc and e , it would also have been the case that cc did not occur . |
| 3 | There is a suggestion that offspring do not have an even chance of inheriting a trait from either parent . |
| 4 | Like elephants , it seems to me that bream do not forget easily either and experience from the past they learn from carefully . |
| 5 | One argument to which the Government has no right to resort is that statistics do not matter . |
| 6 | Gabriel thought that twopence did not seem worth bothering about , so he stepped forward . |
| 7 | erm lots of advertisements produced by Tampax , erm about worry and off days and this was because during that time menstruation was one of these taboo subjects that people did n't talk about . |
| 8 | She says in Belgium they 'd give it scraps that people did n't want . ’ |
| 9 | But , the banks and building societies ha have found that people did n't want independent advice , because they did n't ask for it . |
| 10 | There were understandings between us that people did n't guess at . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd once tried to explain to her that he was n't popular , that people did n't like him , but she would n't have it , so he 'd given up . |
| 12 | Whatever I did I was convinced that people did n't like me , and that if only I could be slim and keep that way with sensible eating habits , they would . |
| 13 | He claimed that complaints were up but nobody ever thought of complaining when the Labour party was in power because there was not a proper procedure , and in many cases the service was so bad that people did not bother . |
| 14 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 15 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 16 | The sheer quantity of matter meant that people did not read all their newspaper . |
| 17 | To reject the picture is not to suggest that people did not have a very real experience of God . |
| 18 | Fewer still would argue that people did not need green spaces within their communities . |
| 19 | For example , Professor Peckham quoted a director of public health who said that people did not ask about research evidence even when making difficult decisions . |
| 20 | If its investigation gives credence to the theory that people do not tell the truth to market researchers , the industry has a problem . |
| 21 | We know that people do not drift away from their main sources of financial help , social support and continuing treatment , particularly if they have built up a relationship with someone in the service they trust . |
| 22 | It should not be assumed that people do not care whose sandwiches they are buying in a BR buffet . |
| 23 | One senses that people do not trifle with ‘ The Shark ’ , whose background is in the seedier recesses of legal neo-fascism . |
| 24 | And , if you do believe in the continuation of the spirit , you have the added comfort of knowing that there is no such thing as ‘ never ’ and that people do not stop loving one another just because they are on different planes . |
| 25 | A further objective is to make sure that people do not move out of unemployment to an even lower income from work . |
| 26 | One problem with the adaptive expectations hypothesis is that it presumes that people do not learn from their past mistakes . |
| 27 | Others have been suggested : to prevent the conduct of government business being unduly hampered and delayed by ‘ excessive ’ litigation ; to reduce the risk that civil servants will behave in over-cautious and unhelpful ways in dealing with citizens for fear of being sued if things go wrong ; to ration scarce judicial resources ; to ensure that the argument on the merits is presented in the best possible way , by a person with a real interest in presenting it ( but quality of presentation and personal interest do not always go together ) ; to ensure that people do not meddle paternalistically in the affairs of others ( query : can representative applicants be accused of this ? ) ; to ensure that the applicant has a personal interest not just an ideological concern in the outcome ( but , query , may not a genuine concern for the interests of others be neither purely personal nor purely ideological ? ) . |
| 28 | A ND you resist all eye contact , remembering the words of barrister Caradog Morgan who earlier this year , in defending one Victoria Carrington , freelance insurance consultant accused of assaulting two fellow passengers because they had joggled her newspaper and dared to look at her right in the face , said , ‘ There is a convention on the Underground that people do not look each other in the eye . ’ |
| 29 | However , this body of theory is now being questioned , partly because of growing evidence that people do not behave as the theory predicts , and partly because of the continuing discovery of cases in which the theory 's recommendations as to rational choice conflict with most people 's intuitions about what it would be reasonable to do . |
| 30 | As this conversation continued over an extended period , I was waiting to go out to dinner , erm it became apparent that he had n't understood my position it was apparent again , outside earlier today , that people do not understand the position that people like me take . |