Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [vb infin] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well over there you see we do n't get many traffic lights . |
| 2 | The passage did not contain many clues to its overall theme . |
| 3 | Unfortunately this did not create many chances . |
| 4 | He did not think many of them bright ( but the record afterwards shows that several were very bright ) . |
| 5 | Margaret Irwin told the Royal Commission on Labour in 1893 that she did not think many women were " at case " outside Edinburgh . " |
| 6 | True , they led to the old Naval Dockyard but that did not generate many heavy goods vehicles and probably none at night . |
| 7 | Yet , faced with the necessity for resolute leadership , at this time of trial , Sir Patrick could only declare his satisfaction with the present policy and say he did not anticipate many changes . |
| 8 | Talking to reporters in Magherafelt , the scene of the latest bombing last night , Sir Patrick said he was satisfied the present security policy was adequate and he did not anticipate many changes . |
| 9 | However , this not only removed local accountability ( the original motive for introducing the new system ) but it also did not affect many areas of the country which were faced with high community charges . |
| 10 | This may have been Nicholas 's opinion of himself , but it did not affect many of his actions . |
| 11 | I was teaching for a while , I did not miss many gigs , ’ he says . |
| 12 | It is , of course , the Joyce of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses who attracted the nouveaux romanciers rather than Finnegans Wake , whose verbal and linguistic inventiveness did not receive many enthusiasts , except for a period during the 1970s when both Robbe-Grillet and Simon were influenced by the theories of Jean Ricardou , who stressed the productive nature of work on language in order to counter representation . |
| 13 | He did not take many head blows . ’ |
| 14 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 15 | She was new to the country and did not have many friends . |
| 16 | Unfortunately for the newspaper , that party did not have many wealthy benefactors , and evidence was admitted to show that others immediately made the connection . |
| 17 | In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation . |
| 18 | Mr Blaikie of Constable 's ( a firm which , it will be remembered , did not employ many women ) said during talks with the union in 1910 : " I delayed for years putting composing machines in my office , partly not to displace labour . |
| 19 | Both thought they knew Rachaela 's life and so did not ask many questions . |
| 20 | But the cynical depravity of this outrage — placing a bomb that would inevitably cause massive damage to a national health service hospital and was intended to kill medical staff when it exploded and which , only by great good fortune , did not cause many more deaths and injuries — must surely mark one of the lowest points in the IRA 's inglorious history . |
| 21 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 22 | While reiterating the spirit of the 1991 accord , however , the auxiliary agreements did not include many of the more burdensome measures proposed in the original accord . |
| 23 | The Conservative leaders expressed their preference for contributory pensions but did not restrain many of their backbenchers from voting for it . |
| 24 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 25 | He did not know many English women . |
| 26 | The Jivaro depend largely on agriculture and do not eat many wild plants , though they hunt a lot . |
| 27 | One view is that climatic geomorphology assumes that climate governs the character and distribution of landforms and although this view appears to be assumed by some of the critics of climatic geomorphology they do not cite many specific cases where the viewpoint is clearly advanced . |
| 28 | They do not make many . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I do not see many head blows . |
| 30 | somehow I do not see many of the tournaments , their sponsors of their spectators regarding that as being beneficial . |