Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one study , fundectomy for 10 weeks did not induce pancreatic hypertrophy . |
| 2 | What 's gone on in the media these past six months does n't mean a thing . |
| 3 | For example , 127 out of 196 schools did not have a single English textbook in grade one and 80 per cent had no maths books . |
| 4 | Only three of 16 patients did not report a history of heartburn or acid regurgitation or during the study period ; all three had normal peristalsis and no oesophagitis . |
| 5 | Numerous figures can be cited to support the view that specific types and ages of households tend to be thus affected , but perhaps the most telling is that 90 per cent of single-person households over the age of 60 years do not have a car ( table 6.1 ) . |
| 6 | I suppose I wrote King Rat to try to find out why I survived and 14 out of 15 others did n't make it . |
| 7 | A delay of two hours did n't dampen the enthusiasm of the villagers to greet their adopted Olympian … |
| 8 | But , on a slow wicket , their partnership of 97 used up 29 overs , and 217 off 55 overs did not look enough . |
| 9 | The novel with two endings does n't reproduce this reality : it merely takes us down two diverging paths . |
| 10 | Leaving the Conservative Party unchallenged in 17 constituencies does not make political sense . |
| 11 | By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed . |
| 12 | Even in 1987 voters did not expect the return of a Labour or Conservative government to make a significant difference . |
| 13 | It means one in four schools do not have a full staff . |
| 14 | Only one in seven men did not help their wives at all in the professional/managerial , clerical and skilled classes , although , for the semi-skilled and unskilled , the proportion rose to one in four . |
| 15 | Now I am well aware that times have changed and in these more liberal-minded days such a remark might pass with only a raised eyebrow or two , but in 1944 men did not use four-letter swear words in front of girls , be they ever so lowly — and they did n't come much more lowly than we were . |
| 16 | Since 12 drawings do n't make a show , I borrowed the title The Non-Objective World , from Malevich and set about preparing for an exhibition of lesser-known artists of the early period ( 1914–24 ) . |
| 17 | Being on six floors does not allow for sweeping vistas , but this is not a shop in which one can get lost any more . |
| 18 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
| 19 | When they bought them from me , I said , ‘ For the next ten to fifteen years do n't sell these , because by then they will be worth a great deal ’ . |
| 20 | An association between two variables does not infer causality and if one feature is associated with better glycaemic control it may not be the case that its widespread introduction will improve control . |
| 21 | When the phone rang Sam jolted awake but for two seconds did not register which phone was ringing . |
| 22 | And no , the man who walked past me as I was running up that long hill at 15 miles did n't help much either . |