Example sentences of "they do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the insurers are judge and jury rolled into one — if they do not think that your case has a reasonable chance of success they will not indemnify you . |
| 2 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
| 3 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 4 | Many players will find themselves in this hazard if they do not think first before playing . |
| 5 | ‘ Police have told us that they do not think it was a deliberate attack on our house because I am deputy leader . ’ |
| 6 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 7 | They do not think of him as a sacrifice offered to God . |
| 8 | They do not think we may mean the " inner stars " . |
| 9 | Second , we will set-down the perspective of the Liberals and SDP — the parties that have been most active in pressing the case for a new constitution precisely because they do not think they can win within the rules of the old one . |
| 10 | John CW Symon ( Points of View , today ) writes : ‘ It would seem obvious that young hooligans do not think of the consequences of their actions … quite likely they do not think of what they are doing as ‘ crime ’ at all … |
| 11 | Digestion of the starch into its component glucose units takes place at the luminal surface of the gut epithelial cells , but these glucose units are immediately absorbed by the sodium ion/glucose cotransporter so that they do not contribute to the osmotic activity in the gut lumen . |
| 12 | According to the STV 's advocates votes are wasted if they do not contribute to a candidate 's election or are superfluous . |
| 13 | They make a contribution to employment by virtue of an increase in employment density or or not , depending on whether that increase actually takes place but they do not contribute to the I five provision by virtue of not being a change of use . |
| 14 | Thus a description of R. & R. Clark 's works in 1896 commented that " for straightforward setting , ordinary stonework , simple imposition and first proof-reading , the women are found to be fully qualified , though of course they do not attain to the all-round excellence of first-class men " , |
| 15 | The implication of this is that many mergers can be regarded as failures in the sense that they do not attain the gains in efficiency claimed as their justification . |
| 16 | They do not refer to the 130 parishes in the diocese , each of which operates its own finances . |
| 17 | While there are many areas of common ground between Althusser and Habermas , both are very different writers in style and tradition and they do not refer to each other 's work . |
| 18 | They do not refer to those behaviours which objectively and avoidably cause us the most harm , injury , and suffering . |
| 19 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 20 | They do not dispute that high level administrators are largely engaged in co-ordination or in the ( apparently ) factual and scientific legitimation of the laws and policies made by the liberal democratic state . |
| 21 | Though they do not dispute the independent effects of maternal age and birth order , especially that of young age and parity , they assert that the apparent maleffect of old maternal age and high birth order is probably due to poor child-spacing . |
| 22 | Dips should be fairly thick so that they do not drop off accompanying crudités , and fillings for pastry parcels and buns should be firm if the food is likely to be bitten and not eaten in one mouthful . |
| 23 | By contrast the larger class-D animals , living on grasslands where rainfall varies , are less selective and so long as they do not crop the grass too close many animals can cover the same foraging area in a short time . |
| 24 | The function of the appointing authority is simply to appoint the expert : they do not supervise the subsequent conduct of the reference , as is the case for some arbitrations which are supervised by arbitration bodies such as the International Chamber of Commerce or the London Court of International Arbitration . |
| 25 | Paint and varnish slow down moisture changes in wood but they do not prevent them for no paint is impermeable to water vapour . |
| 26 | It is clear that clauses of all these types operate to restrict the remedies available on a breach of contract ; they do not prevent a breach occurring . |
| 27 | They do not stand up to even the briefest of scrutinies . |
| 28 | They do not monitor in the area — which suggests that they do n't think it is a major exposure route . |
| 29 | The two other chairs are placed on the other side of this table , still farther to the right , so that they do not block the view of the first two through the balustrade of the veranda . |
| 30 | The UDR has some 700 women in its ranks ; they are fully integrated into the regiment and , although they do not carry weapons , perform the same duties as their male counterparts . |