Example sentences of "of [adj] [Wh pn] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ as a trespasser ’ Means an intentional entry , whether reckless or negligent , into a building which is in possession of another who does not consent to the entry . |
| 2 | He pushed that from his mind , and his mind filled instead with the face of a lad on a bicycle who 'd once been friendly , and the face of another who did n't mind playing Find the Penny in the hut on the golf-course . |
| 3 | There were wan smiles on the faces of some who did not think it was possible . |
| 4 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 5 | Eight of 10 patients who received HBIG and 5 of 6 who did not receive HBIG developed serological markers of active HBV infection . |
| 6 | Many of those who did not marry chose to live together instead . |
| 7 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 8 | She made exhaustion into a political virility symbol , and was foolishly critical of those who did not believe that decisions were best taken in a state of prostration . ’ |
| 9 | The great majority of those who took an active part in the work of the Association were natives of Lewis , and several of those who did not belong to the island were Gaelic-speakers from similar areas . |
| 10 | It is important to recognise this , for an acceptance of this fundamental point leads more easily to an understanding of the reasons which caused an increase in the military significance of those who did not fight on horseback . |
| 11 | This view left room for considerable differences of opinion as to the means by which the labouring poor should be encouraged to work — by coercion or persuasion ; as to the degree to which those who worked could provide for all their needs , such as their children 's education , housing , sickness , old age , widowhood , or required support from the state in some or all of these circumstances ; and as to the degree of culpability of those who did not provide for themselves . |
| 12 | At the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned in February 1981 Iran pressed for a purist conception of non-alignment , which involved a rejection o£ all forms of dependency on the superpowers , an emphasis on self-reliance , and a purge of those who did not live up to this ideal . |
| 13 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 14 | The story of those who did n't want this is often not a pleasant one and there the rigidity and the oppression of our traditions are exposed . |
| 15 | Let us wash our hands of those who do not care for us . |
| 16 | As interest is paid tax free on National Savings there is a competitive advantage in attracting the savings of those who do not pay tax . |
| 17 | Maybe fire is the opposite principle to light , and comes to the use of those who do not go the way of light . |
| 18 | Conversely , sixty-three per cent of those who do not go to church report that none of their friends or acquaintances has ever invited them ’ ( McGavran and Hunter 1980:33 , 34 ) . |
| 19 | Boo lives in a town where the people are very religious , but narrow minded and intolerant of those who do not conform to their very rigid code of social behaviour , and where everybody knows everyone else because the same families have lived there for generations . |
| 20 | He appealed to Christian families to foster vocations to meet the growing challenge of those who do not know Christ . |
| 21 | The advantage of the former is that standardized information can be gathered from a large population , although there is always the problem of those who do not respond and how far the characteristics and opinions of such people match the general population . |
| 22 | Unsurprisingly , since some institutions have literally thousands of enquirers , records are seldom kept of those who do not follow up an enquiry with an application . |
| 23 | It does n't resolve the problems of those who do not qualify for income support , yet are in receipt of paltry levels of pay or other benefits . |
| 24 | Hope lay only in the possibility , the fairly strong possibility , that he was one of those who do not push themselves forward into police investigations unless directly called upon . |
| 25 | But the attitudes and actions of those who do not believe in the immortality of the soul might differ from those who do believe . |
| 26 | He becomes aware that ‘ the god of this age ( i.e. the devil ) has blinded the minds of those who do not believe , lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ , who is the image of God , should shine on them ’ . |
| 27 | The management of patients who require psychiatric inpatient care after a suicide attempt remains the responsibility of psychiatrists , but recent work has shown the value of involving non-medical staff in treatment of those who do not require admission . |
| 28 | It is also to assert an ethnically , or nationality-based citizenship to the exclusion of those who do not share that particular cultural tendency . |
| 29 | Charismatics can be very dismissive and intolerant of those who do not share their religious perspective and Rolle frequently reminds us of such an attitude . |
| 30 | Even if it is almost impossible in worship to accept that which we dislike , we should not be dismissive of those who do not share our preferences . |