Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] do not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the trade unions to buck existing laws ( eg. to cut off supplies to the factory ) would involve them in a political struggle they do not have the strength or will to win — against the government , against the employers , against ‘ public opinion ’ . |
| 2 | Above that level it is a matter of broad generalities which do not lead anywhere . |
| 3 | Further assumptions are that we are fragmented as a movement , and that unity , not a hollow unity which does not go beyond slogans , but an authentic unity established in a principled way , would enable us to have more of an impact in effecting change in our own communities and in turn worldwide . |
| 4 | But if the West Bank can not accommodate them , will they accept a political settlement which does not allow at least a substantial proportion to return to Galilee ? |
| 5 | He may , for instance , have a general belief that the woman 's wishes in sexual matters are immaterial , so that in a specific instance he does not bother either to enquire or to think about them . |
| 6 | As a complete beginner I did not know what to do . |
| 7 | Charlie Mears , the bank clerk , however , is more usually a secondrate poet who does not understand the value of his ‘ dreams ’ , scorning to think of them in terms of actual reincarnations , though these dreams are so vivid that reality and unreality seem mixed . |
| 8 | The West Midlands RAC , for example , was typical in arguing that the attempt to differentiate between ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ technician ’ was based on a misunderstanding of agricultural practice which did not distinguish between them ; it therefore advocated the setting-up of a separate National Council with responsibility for establishing a unified structure of agricultural education below degree level . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't control finances unless you control policy , ’ he claims — a principle on which he has provided Opera North with well-balanced books which do not depend on churning out Bohème and Carmen every night . |
| 10 | In countries where a full banking presence is not permitted banks sometimes establish representative offices which do not engage in deposit-taking or lending but act as marketing agencies for other branches of a bank . |
| 11 | In 1979 , James Anderton , the Christian moralist chief constable of Greater Manchester , described the greatest threat to law and order as stemming from ‘ seditionist … interested groups who do not have the well-being of this country at heart and who mean to undermine democracy ’ ( Thompson 1979 : 380 ) . |
| 12 | Secondly , for historical reasons we did not hold records of National Insurance numbers on the payroll file ( and could not easily add them ) . |
| 13 | Vitrinite reflectance is a temperature ( and therefore depth ) dependent parameter which does not undergo retrogression with uplift . |
| 14 | In other words , the proposals are framed in a political and social void which does not engage with the sorts of social , political and economic changes that have recently been experienced by all . |
| 15 | Of interest too was the finding that high-risk subjects who did not experience a breakdown had fewer perinatal problems than the low-risk subjects . |
| 16 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 17 | However , thanks to my evasive action it did not happen . |
| 18 | It is fair to assume also that there is a high proportion of black sportsmen who come from single-parent families , but , in absolute terms , there are huge numbers of black kids who are reared in broken homes who do not enter sport in any serious way . |
| 19 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 20 | For , ‘ As Marx said , every child knows that a social formation which did not reproduce the conditions of production at the same time as it produced would not last a year ’ . |
| 21 | The fastenings for the steel bits would need to be on the gun deck , and it was on the gun deck they had some of the electronic equipment they did not want the Chilean officers to see . |
| 22 | Public companies which do not have adequate in-house corporate finance experience/resources , where the acquisition is not of sufficient size to interest its merchant bank . |
| 23 | By the public sector I do not mean primarily the state ; I mean a system of popular control within which producers and users ( or consumers ) would , as appropriate , share in policy- and decision-making . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the fact that foreign visitors who did not speak English ( a total of 13 ) were unable to complete questionnaires at all , means that the proportion of overseas visitors in the summer may in fact be greater than Table 2 would suggest . |
| 25 | If they wish to do so , companies should be able to have non-executive directors who do not have the same legal responsibility for its activities as do other directors . |
| 26 | For patients with idiopathic LQTS who do not have syncope , complex ventricular arrhythmias , or a family history of sudden cardiac death , no therapy is required . |
| 27 | A practical S-R bistable circuit which does not suffer from the problem mentioned above is shown in Fig. 4 . |
| 28 | That part of the total social product which does not re-enter the productive process , either directly or indirectly , can be considered unproductive consumption . |
| 29 | Forbes ( 1933 ) and Snodgrass ( 1935 ) have introduced changes in the nomenclature of the cubito-anal veins which do not seem to be widely accepted while Vignon ( 1929 ) has an unorthodox modification of the Comstock-Needham system . |
| 30 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |