Example sentences of "they do not [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , not only are there ambiguities in practice in terms of the organisational design of public sector organisations but they do not tell us very much about the power and status that attach to particular departments . |
| 2 | But they do not tell us much about how more complex cognitive processes take place . |
| 3 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 4 | They do not regard it as offensive to say they want a quality of life more than they want challenge and promotion . ’ |
| 5 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 6 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 7 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 8 | Is it that they do not exert themselves enough ( we know that the English work as quickly as they work well ) ? |
| 9 | They do not place themselves inside or outside the Renaissance by anything they actually do : it is we who place them there ( or exclude them therefrom ) by opting for one definition of the term rather than another . |
| 10 | They do not fit their newly found knowledge into the neat compartments so beloved by academics . |
| 11 | They do not know what else to do . |
| 12 | For example , although they do not know it yet , EC taxpayers will probably end up paying $580m on a cut-price sale of 200,000 tonnes of butter to the Soviet Union which is currently being completed . |
| 13 | So there would b take away this anomaly of old people having to use three buses to get from one end of the town to the other , which means , in actual fact , that each bus they went on to , they paid this ten pence , which if there 's three , if they do not turn it twice a week , twice a day , that 's sixty pence . |
| 14 | ‘ It is important that they do not allow the depressing things they have heard to affect them ; that they do not take them home with them . ’ |
| 15 | But they do not take us sufficiently deeply into the complexity of the concept . |
| 16 | But although by themselves they do not take us this far , they do at least point the way . |
| 17 | This is not to deny that questions of income distribution are important , but they do not concern us here , and so we restrict ourselves to " baking the biggest cake " . |
| 18 | Some fat women do not define themselves sexually because they do not consider themselves sexually viable , and see no point in labelling themselves in a vacuum . |
| 19 | Micros are astonishingly powerful , and it may well be that in a couple of years time they will provide the most attractive solution — but they do not provide it yet . |
| 20 | The rangers ' knowledge of the areas is extensive and they can identify most of the wildlife in the area — indeed if they see a new plant or insect which they do not recognise they normally check through their reference library when they get back to base to find out what it is . |