Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adj] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the orang this does not appear to be the case ; rather the reverse in fact . |
| 2 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 3 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 4 | Note the lack of the IN-FILE keyword , since , in general , the user concerned does not know how many binaries will be delivered as a result of the transfer . |
| 5 | However , dealing with local agents is another worry for the expatriate and so some employers manage the expatriate 's affairs in the UK during an absence overseas by paying the mortgage and rates when the home is empty or when the rent achievable does not cover the outgoings . |
| 6 | Yes , er , I thought the council afraid does n't understand |
| 7 | Thus the pronoun this does not name or refer to any particular entity on all occasions of use ; rather it is a variable or place-holder for some particular entity given by the context ( e.g. by a gesture ) . |
| 8 | In fact , the sound alone does not convey the full idea , but the context in which it is used . |
| 9 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , pupils should be helped to recognise that words with related meanings may have related spellings and that this can sometimes be an aid in the spelling of words where the sound alone does not provide sufficient information . |
| 10 | Finding new staff , i.e. those who have not nursed before , must be approached as an extensive public relations exercise which seeks to heighten the awareness of the possibilities of the health service as an attractive employment prospect throughout the community This does not apply merely to the school leaver sections of the population . |
| 11 | The period 1984–90 does not overlap with any of the analyses covered in the Black report . |
| 12 | At first , the Attorney General did not intend to permit this , but as members indicated on a vote that they preferred to debate the new text , the Attorney General allowed to propose it as follows : |
| 13 | On the whole this does not seem likely . |
| 14 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 15 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 16 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 17 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 18 | This is , in practice , the same as saying that the obligation of confidentiality will not be enforced where the information concerned does not include a trade secret or its equivalent ( see Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 ) . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the Bölkow 207 did not bite , dropping its nose smartly but straight ahead and responding instantly to normal recovery techniques . |
| 20 | In ( 36 ) the adjective former does not qualify the properties , as such , implied by the use of the word king ; the sentence does not mention any entity that has characteristics formerly typical of kings — such as regarding oneself as the owner of one 's subjects , perhaps , or believing that one is of divine lineage . |
| 21 | Shit lovely , he 's a pain in the arm good do n't like him pain in the arse oh dear |
| 22 | Clarke won plenty of line-out ball , but Andy Reed and Paul Burnell in the front five did not contribute as expected . |
| 23 | At the time this did not appear an entirely unrealistic perspective . |
| 24 | As both parents spoke to him in Punjabi for most of the time this did not seem surprising . |