Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] do not [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people looking after chickens do not identify with individual chickens and , as has been said already , very large numbers of animals should not be being looked after by very small numbers of people who have no incentive to treat them as individuals . |
| 2 | The plants lumped together under the umbrella name of herbs do not appear at first glance to be essential to maintain life , but it is now becoming apparent that this concept could be wrong , and that herbs are as necessary as oxygen , though the ingredients they contribute , such as minerals and vitamins , may only be found in minute quantities . |
| 3 | The presence of neutrons explains why the atomic weights of elements do not correspond with their atomic numbers . |
| 4 | Recent surveys in the Lake District have shown that the majority of visitors do not come for these ‘ tourist attractions ’ but rather for the fresh air and breathtaking scenery . |
| 5 | Professor Hayek recognises that a free-enterprise economy requires the presence of strong moral standards of a particular kind for it to work : the two crucial ones being a belief in individual responsibility and a recognition that the merit and worth of individuals do not correspond to the material rewards of the market economy . |
| 6 | This makes it hard to see why a 20 per cent rule has much appeal , and a more attractive rule might ensure that the activities of participants do not overlap by more than some specific amount . |
| 7 | In addition , we have observed that a well characterised group of patients do not benefit from endoscopic therapy . |
| 8 | Great care must be taken to ensure that the line of palms do not look like some modern Forestry Commission plantation . |
| 9 | Some graphs of equations do not pass through the point x = 0 , y = 0 . |
| 10 | He believed that clinical descriptions of neuroses do not take into account the inner experiences of the patient which may be valid and even illuminating . |
| 11 | If this project falls , it is not for purely logical reasons ; it will rather be for the more interesting reason that the right sort of truths do not exist about human nature . |
| 12 | The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes , and many broken homes do not produce delinquents . |
| 13 | Accordingly you will find that our team of Representatives do not come in the traditional mould . |
| 14 | However , these explanations of violence against women do not tally with the evidence of the extent of the violence nor its continuity with other forms of male conduct towards women . |
| 15 | The formal rules of evidence that apply in courts do not apply in tribunals . |
| 16 | It has been observed that two out of three fiction readers in libraries do not look at the text of a book before choosing it . |
| 17 | Composts for herbs in containers do not have to be elaborate mixtures , and the prepacked soilless kinds whose bulk is peat and sand , or those containing loam such as the John Innes mixes , are excellent . |
| 18 | Farmers on the Somerset Levels are to receive extra payments for agreeing to allow surface flooding of their fields between December and May , and ensuring that water levels in ditches do not sink below the mean field level in the summer months . |
| 19 | Other examples of insurance claims being referred to experts do not appear in the reports and are not generally encountered in practice ; the insurance world has a pronounced preference for arbitration . |
| 20 | Quantity constraints on firms do not figure at all . |
| 21 | Health warnings on advertisements do not work for the same reason as health warnings on labels — they represent a token gesture which will have no material effect . |