Example sentences of "[conj] they [adv] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to most of these views , although they wisely do not parade the fact , effects may have a probability of 0.5 or indeed less . |
| 2 | True crocodilian did not appear until the mid-Triassic , although they probably did not differ much from their late Permian ancestors . |
| 3 | Their inability to concentrate or order their thoughts means that they generally do not learn much at school , even though they may be quite intelligent . |
| 4 | People who claimed that they generally did not dream , when woken from REM sleep , did in fact report dreams , but they were particularly prone to forgetting them — if woken after the REM period was over , they recalled even fewer instances of dreaming than those who claimed regularly to recall dreams in the morning.6 In another study generally confirming these findings it was also noticed that " non-dreamers " tended to report that they were awake and thinking when woken from REM sleep . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 7 | In my experience , children find it extremely frustrating to be fired with enthusiasm for a topic but then to find that they simply do not have the skill to express themselves . |
| 8 | However , the appellants ' case in respect of that matter is that they simply did not realise that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 9 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 10 | We expected that a number — perhaps an embarrassingly large number — of students would decide that they simply did not like our courses , and we were prepared to smooth the path of transfer . |
| 11 | It was apparent to Theodora , if not to the Inspector , that they simply did not know . |
| 12 | Mr Lindsey was predicting in early January that the majority of customers this year would probably opt for a variable rate , on the basis that they probably did not believe interest rates would drop very much further . |
| 13 | They probed and measured and cross-questioned Phoebe in the most condescending manner , made worse by the fact that they clearly did not have a clue as to what might have happened . |
| 14 | It involves recasting sentences so that they clearly do not exclude either women or men . |
| 15 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 16 | Moreover , the fact that they usually did not come from commercial backgrounds and were stationed in political capitals rather than commercial or industrial centres also tended to limit their effectiveness . |
| 17 | The pensioners complained on the eve of the first anniversary of the publisher 's death that they still did not know how long their pensions would be paid . |
| 18 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 19 | It might be that they genuinely do not feel that they have the energy or even the interest to effect change in their lives . |
| 20 | No doubt Harry 's family would also have replied in the affirmative , indicating that they really did not know what happiness was . |
| 21 | The Government are not about to hand out dollops of money so that inexperienced people can buy complicated equipment that they then do not know how to use . |
| 22 | Some of the agencies have been recommending the complete party and for some people this is ideal , in that they then do not have to worry . |
| 23 | The self-image of older people is closely linked with morale , which for many has sunk so low that they often do not wish to continue living . |
| 24 | Indeed , their aversion to being in a small cage appears to increase during the initial three months of caging , so they certainly do not adapt quickly to these restrictions . |
| 25 | Severely ill people can experience exhaustion and they simply do not have the energy to carry out the necessary preventive activities ; they are dependent on nurses and others for maintaining a safe environment . |
| 26 | languages are differently equipped to express different real-world relations , and they certainly do not express all aspects of meaning with equal ease . |
| 27 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 28 | They do not panic when they do not understand every word , and they certainly do not think there is a fault in their own language knowledge . |
| 29 | Our four English mystics may lack the imaginative and mythical depths of the great Kabbalists and Sufis , they may not be as daring and extreme as Eckhart and they certainly do not have the lyrical passion of the sixteenth century Spanish mystics St Teresa of Avila ( 1515–82 ) and St John of the Cross ( 1542–91 ) , but they bear witness to the profundity and intelligence of the new English spirituality of their day . |
| 30 | As I mentioned before , vitamins are chemically very unstable and they certainly do not take well to this sort of treatment . |