Example sentences of "simply do [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are whole areas here , Donald , where basic facilities such as water , for example , are in very poor supply or simply do n't exist at all . |
| 2 | On the one hand you 've got guitar players who are very interested in the environment — after all , guitar players are artists , and artists tend to be more liberal and environmentally-minded than most — but on the other hand you have a lot of people who simply do n't want to be bothered . |
| 3 | I say to the British people : after all they have done , they simply do n't deserve to be re-elected . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Now I simply do n't think of you at all . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Coincidences simply do n't happen in real life … ’ |
| 6 | I simply do n't agree with the contention that no case has been made . |
| 7 | There 's real dissent down there , real bitterness , and the Seven simply do n't know about it . |
| 8 | We simply do n't listen to ourselves ! |
| 9 | ‘ What the Archdeacon means is that the way in which priests are appointed means that the sort of questions which you are asking , while perfectly appropriate for an appointment in commerce or industry or indeed other professions , simply do n't apply in the Church . |
| 10 | ‘ Look , I simply do n't connect with that , ’ she answers sincerely , ‘ We should respect each other , just because . |
| 11 | my Lord then all , what , then , was not restricting competition because the people you have excluded are not people who would be in the market in any event , you are already saying we 've got the level of the , the , the hurdle , the wall or the barrier to such a low level that anybody who 's outside it , it is simply not a competitor , we 've got everybody in the market who could conceivably deserve to be there , but there 's no restriction , no you maybe excluding criminals or fraudsters for a , until they 've been re rehabilitated , er and you 're excluding people who simply do not deserve to be there as competitors at all , but no capability of right to compete and that 's why there is no restriction , everybody is in the charm circle who wants to be there and is capable of competing and that 's what the commission are trying to get the rules down to , making sure that no one is outside of the wall who should be inside of the wall and that 's why of course at the end of the day they can give their clearances , there 's no restriction . |
| 12 | Occasionally we hear of staff abuse and there is outrage , but more often than not we simply do not think of what it means to be old or shut away . |
| 13 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 14 | In addition , there are some excellent hypnotherapists who just do not have the right personality to work in the field of past-life regression — and , of course , there are others who simply do not wish to . |
| 15 | Given that these questions ask for purely factual information about the schools in which they work , it seems that the more junior teachers in many cases simply do not know about what their school is doing about such matters . |
| 16 | We often simply do not know in what ways people in the past were drawing on ideas about obligations , rights or duties when they provided assistance for their kin ( Medick and Sabean , 1984 , pp. 20–1 ) . |
| 17 | At this distance in time we simply do not know in detail how the clerks did their jobs , for there were no manuals of office procedure , and the functional tasks gradually evolved so that they bore little resemblance to their forebears . |
| 18 | What all this suggests is that people themselves may anticipate that a particular type of credit would be difficult for them to arrange , and therefore simply do not apply for it . |
| 19 | They simply do not put into effect the rules that the Community agrees . |
| 20 | Thus in Hieracium , and in many other asexual groups , the plants growing in a region simply do not fall into a number of natural kinds . |
| 21 | ‘ I simply did not think of it . ’ |
| 22 | He simply did not want to be solemn . |
| 23 | His public relations executive is probably working hard enough on his account , but they simply did not keep in touch on a regular basis . |
| 24 | In Britain and the world of the new century which approaches we will need to give the enhancement and protection of our environment a prominence which simply did not enter into the consciousness of earlier generations . |
| 25 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 26 | Many terrestrial forms simply did not live in environments in which preservation was possible . |
| 27 | Radio 1 was the most complete form of specialization on a radio station and the last before the BBC accepted that the Reith/Haley commitment to ‘ mixed ’ programming on each station simply did not correspond to listening preferences . |
| 28 | The chemistry simply did not work in the same way . |
| 29 | Corporate America had decided the IBM was the machine to follow and the Macintosh , whatever its advantages , simply did n't fit into this scheme . |
| 30 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |