Example sentences of "men do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 2 | The day was hot — killingly hot , for Donegal — and the men did not wear wetsuits . |
| 3 | The universal outrage at the behaviour of the young men did not prevent the press publishing details of the cross-examination of the girls . |
| 4 | Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand . |
| 5 | and about thirty junior men did not hold a post at all as a result of coalition . |
| 6 | At the end of the War many men did not return to their former transport jobs , and women became a regular part of the platform staff . |
| 7 | Men did not give the impression that their sexuality was at all vulnerable . |
| 8 | Middle class legislators failed to confront the fact that large numbers of industrious working class men did not earn enough to keep a wife and children . |
| 9 | Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him . |
| 10 | She also knew that , generally speaking , good , worthy men did not look flashy and glamorous , let alone theatrical ; on the other hand , many rats were as good-looking as they were confident . |
| 11 | George Williamson and three other men did not hesitate to launch to the aid of Ralph Pottinger , even though the coastguard had advised them not to attempt a rescue , and they cast off from Scalloway Harbour at 2138 , aboard Challenge , a steel-built 36ft salmon work boat . |
| 12 | The men did not understand the words , but the poetry had a soothing influence upon them . |
| 13 | In general ( see Appendix I , Table 12c ) women and men did not differ much in their attitudes to different types of credit , but women had more favourable options of mail order . |
| 14 | Indeed , a recent survey showed that more women than men did not receive unemployment benefit because of inadequate contributions ( Erens and Hedges , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 16 | But the men did not hear her because the engine was making a lot of steam and noise . |
| 17 | The local medical men did not object , but rather commended them for their cheapness . |
| 18 | Only one in seven men did not help their wives at all in the professional/managerial , clerical and skilled classes , although , for the semi-skilled and unskilled , the proportion rose to one in four . |
| 19 | Still men did not know what women did when they were alone together . |
| 20 | These men did not describe themselves as Zuwayi hurr , but even though their activities were largely circumscribed by their police work , they maintained some activities which were typical of a free Zuwaya . |
| 21 | Now I am well aware that times have changed and in these more liberal-minded days such a remark might pass with only a raised eyebrow or two , but in 1944 men did not use four-letter swear words in front of girls , be they ever so lowly — and they did n't come much more lowly than we were . |
| 22 | If six men were left , we could not take control of the ship ; and because only six were left , the captain 's men did not need my help . |
| 23 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 24 | He remembered that Suragai had said that on most worlds men did not ride , and he wondered how they managed . |
| 25 | As our men did not wish to write-off two company cars , the youth escaped . |
| 26 | Men did not have this problem . |
| 27 | Men did not have a monopoly of travel , or of disguise . |
| 28 | But his deputies said the UN 's men did not have a peacekeeping mandate ; they were in Bosnia only to protect aid convoys . |
| 29 | Such men did not take kindly to orders and supervision , and were indeed often beyond effective control , except by the collective of their workshop . |
| 30 | This was the earliest technology in which power was derived from sources other than animal muscles and the output was so obviously superior that men did not mind putting up with the inconvenience of machines which were uncomfortable or awkward to use . |