Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retaining fertile eggs within her body long enough for them to hatch there does not require major anatomical or physiological changes , so it is not surprising that all the major groups of land-living animals contain species that produce live babies . |
| 2 | If the only reading you ever do is the occasional novel or glossy magazine , then the speed at which you read Probably does not matter very much to you . |
| 3 | Er but I would add this to you know please do not depend in any way upon Beria |
| 4 | Just because you live alone does not mean that you should not bother . |
| 5 | Children are often snappish and can not be touched ; they want to do as they please yet do not know what pleases them ! |
| 6 | However , others who only discover that they are HIV positive when they get ill do not have the option of early treatment . |
| 7 | The circumstances under which they did so do not appear from the report of the case . |
| 8 | For the last six days they had clung to hope , but they finally felt it pulling away from them — the miracle they wanted just did not happen . |
| 9 | So a rich peasant will be able to keep all of the land he was working himself , all the land he was working by hired labour and land that he hired , er that he rented out as long as the amount he , he rented out did not exceed all of the land that he worked himself or used hired labour . |
| 10 | His first surviving letter , written to his mother in February 1785 , seems to suggest that he had visited Ottery in the recent past ; but better evidence that he returned there does not survive until 1789 , seven years after his arrival in London . |
| 11 | ‘ 17. … article 30 of the Treaty must be interpreted as meaning that the prohibition which it lays down does not apply to national rules prohibiting retailers from opening their premises on Sunday where the restrictive effects on Community trade which may result therefrom do not exceed the effects intrinsic to rules of that kind . |
| 12 | There is precedent for saying that a drunken belief that the car belongs to the accused when it did not does not give a s.12(6) defence : Gannon ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 254 . |