Example sentences of "they [verb] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This raised three different problems ( or opportunities , as we say in marketing ) : overall , the quality of the stores was higher than expected by people used to Allied Carpets ' promotional style ; people were not fully aware of the extent of the offer — they did not associate Allied with furniture and beds ; and , in a market where independent retailers are still the dominant factor , they had low expectations of Allied 's standards of personal service . |
| 2 | People lived and died there ; they did not grow old there , because no one could live for very long in the Robemaker 's hands . |
| 3 | They were stained with the Grimelius silver method , reacted rather weakly with neuron specific enolase antibodies , and in general strongly with chromogranin A antibodies , while they did not express argent affinity or immunoreactivity for gastrin , somatostatin , enteroglucagon , human pancreatic polypeptide , and peptide YY . |
| 4 | They did not express public opinions and were rarely touched by even those organisations , trade unionist , political or otherwise , which bothered to appeal to them . |
| 5 | They did not give any sign of interest in us . |
| 6 | As Table 14 shows , the overall distribution of material in need of repair was such that more than three-quarters ( 78% ) of all defective items issued were classified only as ‘ Poor ’ since they did not show major deterioration , while just under a fifth ( 18% ) were classified as ‘ Bad ’ . |
| 7 | They did not achieve this , but their future was closely to parallel that of the cotton hand-loom weavers in moving through boom to desperation . |
| 8 | There was no reason for him to do so because the claims that he wished to make were quite simple ( they did not involve complex interactions of different speaker variables ) , and because in his analysis the same patterns were repeated for every variable studied , tending in the same direction in every case in terms of both class and style ( several classes and several styles ) . |
| 9 | Not only did the Dissenters still suffer civil disabilities , but they could still be prosecuted for worshipping outside the Church of England if they did not fulfil certain requirements at law . |
| 10 | Although they did not offer any pathological data , they suggest that dilatation and curettage may be inappropriate in many cases and that guidelines should be developed to agree on the most appropriate patients for the procedure . |
| 11 | Then came the day of joy when doctors at Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital said they did not expect any more problems . |
| 12 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 13 | The Christians were strongly opposed to child exposure , actively rescuing foundlings , and deplored abortions which they did not think defensible except with arguments that equally justified infanticide . |
| 14 | Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern . |
| 15 | The problem last season was that they did not score enough goals . |
| 16 | They did not stress any particular one . |
| 17 | However , most of the interviewees stated that they did not perceive this process taking place . |
| 18 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 19 | They did not talk any more on the way to the hospital . |
| 20 | The Rouhanyoun faction protested as some 1,100 prospective candidates were eliminated by the committees on the grounds that they did not meet minimum educational and other standards . |
| 21 | They did not meet prior to the civil marriage ceremony and spoke only briefly then . |
| 22 | But they did not do much more than that . |
| 23 | Zuwaya said they should not watch television together ; sons should not smoke in their father 's presence , nor try to wheedle or coax money from them ; and mostly they did not do those things . |
| 24 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 25 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |
| 26 | They did not want outside intervention in the collective bargaining process from representatives of more broadly-based trade unions since such interference could be inimical to the preservation of paternalistic employee relations within the undertaking ( Okochi et al . , |
| 27 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 28 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 29 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 30 | They did not want arty philosophical essays . |