Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its show combined adventure , innovation and fun with the important wearability factor , and only the blinkered did not leave impressed . |
| 2 | John believes that women of the 90's do n't have time to spend hours fussing with their hair . |
| 3 | Yet his expressed preference for the worship of the formless does not prevent him from recognizing that God is personal to those who need to feel his presence and embodied to those who desire to experience his touch . |
| 4 | The political implications of this dialogue of the deaf did not become fully apparent until the presidential elections of 1965 . |
| 5 | The economic conditions of the 19705 do not lead to optimism if one continues to hold this view . |
| 6 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 7 | That the rich did not escape the scourge is evident at Crich in Derbyshire when , in October 1349 , William de Wakebridge added a small chantry chapel to the parish church in memory of his wife , his father , his two sisters and three brothers , all of whom had died of the plague in the summer of that year . |
| 8 | Funny how the rich do n't carry cash . |
| 9 | ‘ Very soon this city will burn with the fires of revolt if the rich do not get off their fat arses and do more to help ! ’ |
| 10 | The rich do not dare to be alone at night in their grand houses : who lurks to rape around the panelled corners , swings to attack from the ropes in the work-out room ? |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , most of the unemployed do n't live on it because they ca n't . |
| 12 | Because the unemployed do n't have their own political resources , there is no popular campaigning focus for the minimum income needed for participation in the life of a community . |
| 13 | Perhaps most important of all is the clear and simple fact that the vast majority of the unemployed do not want ‘ political ’ classes . |
| 14 | The large amphibians of the Palaeozoic did not survive beyond the Permian , and so our inferences about their modes of life have to be made entirely from the bony fossils that survive . |
| 15 | Thousands of ostraka have been dug up , the most famous being a batch of 191 with Themistocles 's name inscribed on them by only four separate hands — either fraud or an anti-Themistocles hit squad ensuring that the illiterate did not miss the chance to vote . |
| 16 | Accounting for the flop of his latest film , ‘ Last Images of the Shipwreck ’ , on the home market , an Argentine director said simply : ‘ The shipwrecked do n't want to see the shipwreck . ’ |
| 17 | If the English do not like children , it is because they think they ought to behave properly , responsibly and quietly in their presence and can never riot or have a good time when they 're around . |
| 18 | Perhaps the English do not know what an immense treasure they possess in having maintained the choral tradition in colleges and churches , since it provides an unsurpassable musical training , an important number of truly fine choirs , and , finally , the possibility to experience ( and for the listener , to enjoy ) repertories that the long-suffering Spanish enthusiast scarcely knows since they are not performed [ in Spain ] . |
| 19 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |
| 20 | The English do n't talk about things , they make an atmosphere . |
| 21 | I wanted to write books about psychiatry and the English do n't like that . |
| 22 | ‘ The English did n't seem to know right what they were doing . |
| 23 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 24 | The English did not come . |
| 25 | With budgets of around £50,000 , the preference was for gentle tales with a non-urban setting such as The Brave Do n't Cry ( 1952 ) , about a Scottish mining disaster ; Conflict of Wings ( 1953 , Fuss Over Feathers in US ) , in which East Anglian villagers fight for the cause of bird sanctuaries against the needs of the RAF ; Judgement Deferred ( 1951 ) and Brandy for the Parson ( 1951 ) , both of which are smuggling stories . |
| 26 | The British did not want to act themselves if they could avoid it . |
| 27 | The British did not fare so well . |
| 28 | But by 1890 the competition imposed on the world by Britain and its nearest rivals in north-western Europe had returned a hundredfold , and there no longer seemed a possibility of escape : if the British did not colonize , others would , and at British expense . |
| 29 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 30 | Tolstoy 's attempt to explain why the British did not see the massacre , by suggesting that there was a hill in the way , is therefore superfluous . |