Example sentences of "[conj] they do not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It is going to involve a substantial input of accounting ( and , of course , data processing ) resources particularly where they do not exist now : in directly managed hospitals , in NHS Hospital Trusts , in the Family Practitioner Committees , and in the GP Practices .
2 If the parties , when they wish something to be made of the essence , say so in terms , then obviously it is of the essence if they do say so , and the probability is , that where they do not say so , it is not intended to be of the essence ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd ( 1980 ) 254 EG 123 ) .
3 In the North-East there are three music schools and although they do not boast as many pupils as their Japanese counterparts they are growing , with over 300 pupils enrolled .
4 These differ from those of the Nuer in that they do not fuse together into a single , all-pervasive deity .
5 This is to check that they do not infringe either the Television Act , which places some special restrictions on TV advertising , or the ITC Code of Advertising Practice ( see Chapter 16 ) .
6 FEW PLACES have such a gentle and equable climate that animals living there never need seek shelter ; and few animals are so well-armed that they do not welcome somewhere to hide from their enemies or a safe nursery for their young .
7 In any case Kent County Council is concerned that they do not go far enough and has produced its own traffic strategy designed to reduce the pressure on smaller roads .
8 The Kennel Club defend themselves against accusations that they do not do enough to curtail irresponsible breeding .
9 Nurses working for agencies may often be telephoned and asked to undertake an assignment that they do not feel very confident about .
10 As I have argued above , the doctrine of deterrence and the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons can only be justified by the acceptance that the superpowers are genuine in their protestations that they do not intend ever to use nuclear weapons , and that they seek disarmament .
11 By having Alexander lessons an individual would be able to learn how to sit , stand or pick objects up so that they do not put so much strain on the back muscles , thus bringing instant relief to their back .
12 This enables the Court to review the decisions of government ministers , inferior courts , tribunals and other administrative bodies to ensure that they do not act illegally , irrationally , or commit some procedural impropriety ( per Lord Diplock in C. C.S. U. v. The Minister for the Civil Service ( H.L. , 1984 ) .
13 ( b ) The admissibility of illegally obtained evidence As we discussed in Chapter 2 , one way of controlling the activities of the police and of ensuring that they do not act unlawfully is to prevent the admissibility of evidence which is obtained by illegal means .
14 Yet few educationists would argue that they do not figure in their overall goals for what they wish pupils to achieve or that they do not impinge fundamentally on pupils ' potential success or failure .
15 The behavioural patterns are so different that they do not mix well .
16 Here , staff appreciate that both fear and grief in the patient and his relatives can be reduced through anticipating the fact that they do not have much longer together and that this time can be used constructively to work through some of their anxieties and other distressing emotions .
17 The prices of certain goods too — notably manufactured goods — appear to be ‘ administered ’ , or set for some time so that they do not respond immediately to changes in supply and demand .
18 There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly .
19 Above all , we must move junior doctors on to a shift system so that they do not work more than 60 hours , coming down to 56 hours in the most intensive posts .
20 There is little the four-year-old child can tell his or her parents that they do not know already , for they share the child 's world almost entirely .
21 Most bivalves with siphons develop a gape at one end of the valves , so that they do not close entirely in the region from which the siphons protrude .
22 The basic problem with these killed virus flu vaccines is that they do not provide either complete protection or retain their effectiveness for very long .
23 Firms are divided over proposals requiring audit partners to be rotated every seven years to ensure that they do not develop too cosy a relationship with their clients .
24 The OEWs are proprietary devices available from several suppliers on the open market so they do not rank as critical technology .
25 And they do not miss much . ’
26 Now for some of our members choice is is not something that they are fortunate enough to have because they are very needy and they do not have perhaps all the education that some of the tory party perhaps have , that they have been less fortunate in many , many ways .
27 Children who have a good general understanding of sound-symbol relationship , even if they do not spell well at the moment , are , as Margaret Peters says , " well on their way " to becoming good spellers .
28 Such theories at least attempt to cope with the reality of the female presence , even if they do not do so accurately .
29 Is it not time that the Government stood up and were counted by telling the Turkish Government to remove their troops from occupied Cyprus and saying that if they do not do so the British Government will veto any attempt by Turkey to join the EC ?
30 If they do not hold more than 10 per cent of the shares to which the offer relates , they can be dealt with under those procedures ( the target must hold the consideration on trust for 12 years , after which it must be paid into court with interest , dividends and other accrued benefitsCA 1985 , s430(9) and ( 11 ) ) .
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