Example sentences of "but the [noun sg] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Psalmist does not mention the destruction of the city or the deportation of the people , the context can hardly be the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. But the description does not correspond either to what we are told in the Books of Maccabees about the defilement of the Temple in 167 B.C. , when only the priests ' chamber was destroyed and only the gates burned ( I Mac . |
| 2 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 3 | Compulsory admission occurred where the doctor ascribed the sick role but the patient did not accept it or did not react at all . |
| 4 | Outwardly it had been the easiest and quietest of times that the house had ever known but the unease did not go away . |
| 5 | Now we have lost one and want to replace it but the nursery do not grow it any more , and we can not find one that does . ’ |
| 6 | She looked at her daughter 's lovely face , and tried to warn her of the dangers of love , but the girl did not listen . |
| 7 | But the computer did not extend my power when I first worked on one in 1980 . |
| 8 | The fans chanted ‘ we want Sugar out ’ as they waited outside the court , but the chairman did not hear them he left court by the judge 's entrance . |
| 9 | Shiloh was some twenty miles from the camp , but the storyteller does not dwell on the sight of the Israelites ( and the Philistines , too ! ) twiddling their thumbs while the runner and then the ark are on their way . |
| 10 | Team members were greeted like conquering heroes on the return to Britain but the euphoria did not last . |
| 11 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
| 12 | Sir Charles ’ terror was so great that his weak heart stopped , and he died , but the animal did not touch the dead body . |
| 13 | The section could have been summarized in the sidenote as ‘ arrest for non-arrestable offences ’ , but the draftsman did not dare to risk such Kafkaesque accuracy . |
| 14 | But the jury did not find that the boy might not have been revived had one of the others been killed to provide food for him . |
| 15 | The larger firms usually had a ‘ wider range of contacts and resource immediately on tap ’ , but the respondent did not express a preference for them . |
| 16 | Stott gives us a thoughtful ‘ Ondine ’ , but the music does not move along very naturally and this water nymph is not sufficiently seductive and dangerous . |
| 17 | The revised standards are currently subject to exposure , but the Board does not intend to reconsider the decisions it took in approving the Statement of Intent . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal stated that the Board did have a duty to act fairly which entailed granting B and K the opportunity to satisfy them of matters in the statute , and to let B and K know the impressions of the Board so that they might be dispelled ; but the Board did not have to quote ‘ chapter and verse , ’ nor did it have to disclose the source of its information if it would be contrary to the public interest , nor did the reasons for the refusal have to be given . |
| 19 | But the building does not comply with the Registered Homes Act , and must close or be upgraded . |
| 20 | But the building does not reveal the hand of a master the way that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra 's new Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center does . |
| 21 | He will know that my Department gave a grant for a feasibility study into large-scale CHP in Leicester , but the scheme did not proceed . |
| 22 | But the couple did not rule out the possibility after 34-year-old Cheggers ' TV confession of his illness on Thursday . |
| 23 | But the opportunity did not arise : he waited in the corridors of the Old Bailey , but was never summoned . |
| 24 | But the clerk did not do anything to see that she read the letter and she did not read it . |
| 25 | He waited for a few seconds , but the noise did not repeat itself . |
| 26 | But the content does not become part of their own individual system of thought , enriching and widening it … |
| 27 | The outcome will be recorded but the finding does not constitute a black mark on the record of the officer involved . |
| 28 | In Spark 's case the answer was no , but the story does not stop there . |
| 29 | He looked so thunderous that she would have run had she been able , but the chance did not arise . |
| 30 | They waited and waited , but the boy did not appear . |