Example sentences of "men do not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I ought to add , perhaps , that gay men do not regard this film with nothing but sad , solemn recognition — the characteristically gay male urge to mock and undercut what one genuinely and deeply feels , what Dyer brilliantly calls ‘ the knife edge between camp and hurt ’ , can be evidenced by pointing out that one of London 's most crowded and cruisy gay bars is called ‘ Brief Encounter ’ , though one is , alas , unlikely to meet anyone resembling Trevor Howard therein .
2 ‘ Dead men do not return .
3 Though men do not experience a menopause , natural ageing takes its toll .
4 Women lose this image of attractiveness with ageing , a process that men do not experience to the same degree .
5 He was not a very intelligent man ; intelligent men do not go to prison with such sad regularity .
6 Men do not suffer with cellulite even when obese .
7 Men , of course , would not make friends with a single mother for the reason that men do not make friends .
8 But men do not want to get into demeaning details about how they help with the housework : few admit to doing the washing up .
9 ‘ I tell you it will do the NSPCC no good to suggest , however indirectly , that men do not care about these issues .
10 Those views she had been taught in the twenties while a young girl , that men do not love or respect , still less marry , women who have ‘ given themselves ’ to them , she had been obliged to revise .
11 For men do not come out by night with the intention of lying down to drown in eight inches of water at the edge of a riverside path .
12 Men do not reciprocate this support .
13 There is something the men do not see .
14 A shocking 79% of women say men do not take their stress levels seriously , and only half believe their partners help enough around the house .
15 This is not to say that older men do not take on the role of ‘ carer ’ , nor that the perceived threat to independence is only an issue for women .
16 All over Europe homosexuals are on the retreat from public activity : it is important that homosexual women and men do not let go of their responsibility for their own lives , as is now the case in England .
17 So , all men do not hate all women !
18 Whereas in London and in England generally , it had been a matter of principle from the start that Monotypes should be worked by male union labour , " in Edinburgh , the men do not seem to have come forward to learn the Monotype , even in response to invitations from the employers .
19 Men do not share support with child care simply because so few of them are responsible for the care of children , and so on .
20 Some men do not understand what they are really doing , and they just become foul-mouthed .
21 Men do not have the sole franchise on a sense of humour .
22 Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development .
23 Nevertheless , a distinction should be made — as Gramsci further indicated by adding that ‘ all men do not have the function of intellectuals in society ’ — between this everyday level of political observation and reflection , and the more systematic and rigorous elaboration of ideas about society and politics which constitutes the principal activity of more specialized intellectual groups .
24 This does not mean that individual men do not count .
25 Apart from anything else , I ca n't help feeling that if women let men get away with too much bad behaviour , men do not forgive them for the burden of guilt they then have to bear .
26 Women learn at an early age that most men do not like angry women living in the same house .
27 Men do not like disruptions and the effect is that staff feel less inclined to initiate conversations if they feel the receptivity is n't there .
28 The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them .
29 All women , including those who find street remarks ‘ flattering ’ , are aware of being watched and assessed in a way men are not , and it makes women self-conscious in a way men do not need to be .
30 That is why other men do not receive the Spirit between his baptism and Pentecost .
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