Example sentences of "[conj] do not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best are those that do not simply rely on a historical setting , but encourage historical skills , evaluation and understanding . |
| 2 | This makes it a unique medium for chemical reactions , bringing together substances that do not normally dissolve in the same liquid . |
| 3 | Individuals with more complicated problems , that do not easily fit into the overall structure of the programme , may either be neglected or take up an inappropriate amount of group time . |
| 4 | The techniques used with normal subjects give estimates that do not closely correspond to those derived from the clinical literature . |
| 5 | On several occasions when their views have been canvassed , the judges of the High Court and the Court of Appeal have shown themselves capable of contemplating changes that do not necessarily coincide with popular or professional opinion . |
| 6 | Circumstances such as these or weather conditions , the time of year etc may cause some of the amenities we have described to be temporarily unavailable and some resort/hotel photographs may illustrate amenities and conditions that do not necessarily prevail throughout the whole season . |
| 7 | Harry can not accept the fact that she has activities and commitments that do not directly relate to him , and keeps up a constant pressure on her to give up her job so that they can spend all their time together . |
| 8 | Vidor was to confess that he had started ‘ with the definite idea ’ that he wanted ‘ to make a film that did not simply come to town to play three days or a week and then was forgotten ’ and it was always his conviction that the proper subjects for such a film would be the beauty of rural America and the fundamental decency of ordinary Americans . |
| 9 | Some respondents knew from the beginning that she was Catholic , and those that did not soon learnt about it . |
| 10 | They were in neither half of the house , but in a space that did not really exist for Maggie , who never asked herself which half the house was whose , since the whole house was , for her , theirs . |
| 11 | Bukharin went on , however , to make a leap that did not necessarily follow from his previous line of thought . |
| 12 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 13 | They form a V-shaped cross-section that does not quite meet at its apex . |
| 14 | It is true in general , in spite of the fact that philosophers by no means speak with a single voice , and do not even agree among themselves about what they understand philosophy to be , since the nature of the subject , its preoccupations and methods , is itself a matter of philosophical disagreement . |
| 15 | What this spirit brought was a confidence that problems can be solved , and do not just have to be lived with . |
| 16 | We take particular care when approached for facilities by young people and do not normally lend to minors . |
| 17 | Those that carry the same names as overseas beers are produced under licence and do not necessarily adhere to the recipe or strength of the original . |
| 18 | This immediately creates some problems , since " codes " for this purpose are social constructs , and do not necessarily coincide with what linguists would recognise as discrete languages . |
| 19 | Theorists such as Nozick , Dworkin , and Ackerman have all addressed major issues of equality , rights , and justice and do not necessarily agree with Rawls 's work . |
| 20 | They can be easily reconfigured between different product lines ( Cohen and Zysman , 1987 : ch. 9 ) and do not necessarily conform to the linear layout . |
| 21 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
| 22 | Typically they are geographically mobile , living relatively far away from kin , work and friends ; they separate work from leisure and do not always socialise with the same group of people who all know each other . |
| 23 | Processions commonly or customarily held , and funeral processions are exempt from the notice requirement , presumably because the police will already be fully aware that they are to be held , and do not therefore fall within the ‘ triggering ’ rationale of the requirement . |
| 24 | They hijack Englishness and do not really speak for most English people . |
| 25 | STABILITY : - The molecules have an extremely stable structure and do not readily decompose into hydrogen and oxygen . |
| 26 | Landslips , earthquakes and faulting are not everyday occurrences in this country and do not usually have to be allowed for in settlement siting . |
| 27 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 28 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 29 | She was very shy , and did not often speak to anyone outside the family . |
| 30 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |