Example sentences of "they [verb] not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories ! |
| 2 | ‘ Partly common or garden jealousy , I think , and partly because they tend not to get involved in all the politics that goes on . ’ |
| 3 | They hope not to have that problem this year when the World Championships are in Santiago in Chile . |
| 4 | They 'd not favoured local women for security reasons . |
| 5 | Oh well they said that 's because they 'd not got that section finished |
| 6 | Someone from British Coal rang a bemused Rob Gretton to find out what ‘ the political content of the record was ’ as , what with the goings-on with the imminent pit closures they claim not to want any more adverse publicity ! |
| 7 | Wherever possible they try not to have that but you may have to stay away . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People lived and died there ; they did not grow old there , because no one could live for very long in the Robemaker 's hands . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They did not give any sign of interest in us . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then came the day of joy when doctors at Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital said they did not expect any more problems . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The problem last season was that they did not score enough goals . |
| 23 | They did not stress any particular one . |
| 24 | However , most of the interviewees stated that they did not perceive this process taking place . |
| 25 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 26 | They did not talk any more on the way to the hospital . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They did not meet prior to the civil marriage ceremony and spoke only briefly then . |
| 29 | But they did not do much more than that . |
| 30 | 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 . |