Example sentences of "they [verb] not [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | More precisely , lots of people have ideas , but they do not all agree . |
| 32 | ( They do not all have the same ! ) |
| 33 | They do not all live on the savannah , of course ; hippos prefer rivers and many of the antelope ( bongo , duikers ) prefer forest , as do elephants when it is available . |
| 34 | They do not all explain the decline in total , nor are they mutually exclusive , but collectively they raise many of the prime considerations . |
| 35 | However , one thing is certain : whatever the reason , they do not all return to their former host . |
| 36 | When the dye molecules are dissolved in another solid , transparent host material , they do not all absorb light at quite the same frequency . |
| 37 | And they do not all rotate in the same mode . |
| 38 | Hydrangea florets can be picked and pressed in the autumn when they are a lovely green shade with reddish tinges , although you may have to choose your bush carefully as they do not all have the same density of colour . |
| 39 | Every mental phenomenon includes something as object within itself , although they do not all do so in the same way . |
| 40 | Leaf-cutter bee There are many kinds of bee , and they do not all swarm and live in hive communities . |
| 41 | But they do not all offer equal value for money . |
| 42 | They do not all live in the same place , but in any one place there may be more than one , and perhaps half a dozen , species . |
| 43 | All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another . |
| 44 | Academic councils , professional resource centres and curriculum " clusters " all acknowledge the need to diminish isolation , but they do not all look forward with the same clear-sightedness further into any young person 's life . |
| 45 | Obviously popular , it survives complete ( or nearly so ) in sixteen manuscripts many of which divide the text into chapters although they do not all agree as to how . |
| 46 | They 've not much time for things that are n't either pleasurable or functional . |
| 47 | Well I mean how do all the rest of the pond they 've not all got bloody herons , plastic herons perched on the side have they ? |
| 48 | They had n't that veil on them like they used |
| 49 | I it , it was , it was alright f for people wh who were used to that sort of thing but I mean they had n't all the mechanization in the mines then that they have now . |
| 50 | Mistletoe was even dearer , and they had n't any at all of that . |
| 51 | M. B. The Federation helped us but they had n't any teeth . |
| 52 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 53 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 54 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 55 | They had n't any of er Lloyd Webber 's music . |
| 56 | Eva protested that they had n't enough money . |
| 57 | They had not much time . |
| 58 | In other words the sorts of remarks they would be passing if they had not this to talk about . |
| 59 | There was , however , room for two pages of details of other excerpts records in the same series : why anyone would be any more interested in these than in the Humperdinck if they had not more information than that supplied with this CD was not clear . |
| 60 | He said they had to allow the Japanese to retain their arms because they had not enough men to collect them . |