Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [coord] do not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punishing someone for doing the wrong thing may inhibit him from that action but does not establish a better pattern . |
| 2 | It should be noted that the stages are defined purely for the purposes of this review and do not feature in the National Certificate Catalogue . |
| 3 | The Court was not asked to consider the effects of this violation and did not do so . |
| 4 | At the beginning of the story , Montag is happy to do this job and does not question the law he enforces but , as the book progresses , through his friendship with a young girl Clarisse McClellan , he is transfigured . |
| 5 | Existing employers and partners can also have a lot to say on this point and do not take kindly to large chunks of their work being removed by an exiting employee . |
| 6 | Any branch which receives a gift or donation of this size and does not have the necessary forms should contact its regional office , or the headquarters Fund Raising Department , for advice on increasing the value of the donation even more — at the taxman 's expense ! |
| 7 | Tamar thought no more about this conversation and did not ask Stephen whether his quest for a new groom had been successful . |
| 8 | it might be — he was once again at the bench this weekend but did not get on the field this time . |
| 9 | They are intended to assist groups at local level who wish to make some contribution but do not have time to study the Lineaments and respond to all its questions . |
| 10 | The NRA hopes to have the first standards in place by the end of this year and does not foresee any complications caused by the setting up of a single environment agency . |
| 11 | Her husband and children respected her privacy at this time and did not interrupt it with trivial enquiries like : ‘ Where 's my shirt ? ’ or ‘ What 's for dinner ? ’ |
| 12 | Thus all three of these techniques : programme budgeting , specialty costing and patient costing , are of some value but do not overcome all the limitations of departmental budgets . |
| 13 | If you have not been contact with someone for some time and do not have a directory which is updated frequently , a quick phone call tell you whether your contact is still there or has moved on . |
| 14 | If you need to use chemicals to kill a really troublesome pest , choose one which kills only that pest and does not harm bees etc . |
| 15 | Their bachelor predecessor had no such eye and did not try to change it . |
| 16 | They hardly saw each other & did not leave space for each other ! |
| 17 | She was often out all evening and did not reappear until the small hours , so that it was not until the next day , not until the next evening , that Anna began to be alarmed at her absence . |
| 18 | You sleep all lesson and do not care , |
| 19 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 20 | I use lemon grass on salads wherever you would normally use chives ; it gives even more refreshment and does not affect any wine you might drink . |
| 21 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 22 | in the Davis Straits whale fishery ; he had little success and did not go again . |
| 23 | Compare this with the slide-back scooping block which uses the same technique but does not turn the body away . |
| 24 | These images had what Alexander desired for his own work and did not have : authority . |
| 25 | The director ( presumably ) has his own home and does not live at the company premises . |
| 26 | Ursula wanted her daughter free at any price and did not mind what risks Maurice had to run to bring that about . |
| 27 | We are equally ready to project this highly idealized picture of ourselves onto our own past and do not know what to make of the weird mystical ‘ fantasies ’ in which our ancestors seem to have indulged . |
| 28 | He wondered if it was the same rope but did not like to ask his mother . |
| 29 | Although there was a resistance movement to the German occupation , it never developed on any scale and did not have the support of the mass of the people who were coddled by the occupying regime . |
| 30 | It is precisely a feature of the debate that no statement was innocent : employers and unionists used the arguments they hoped would further their own cause and did not appear to be aware of the contradictions in their logic . |