Example sentences of "[conj] do not [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 32 | The turnpikes , though important in the history of roads , contributed little to the landscape that did not exist before . |
| 33 | ‘ People have too many other things to be worrying about than remembering a revolution that did not achieve very much . ’ |
| 34 | It was an answer that did not mean much to me then and I confess that it means very little to me today : it is not only a rather arid and pompous definition , which seems to drain the idea of God of imaginative life , but it also seems arrogant — even hubristic . |
| 35 | He chose a route back down the hill that did not involve too many serious gradients , moving from Roseberry Road to Warburton Drive to Chesterton Terrace and , from there , doubling back along a series of streets with an offensively tangible air of esprit de corps — Lowther Park Drive , where people called to each other over their Volvos and , even worse , Stapleton Road , a place that seemed almost permanently on the verge of a street party . |
| 36 | The crowd always wanted the challenger to win , something that did not happen too often , because I remember the timing of the rounds appeared to be fixed to the advantage of the resident boxer . |
| 37 | Like Dexter , she had had enough of grappling with the bundles of facts she had accumulated , facts that did not slot together to form a coherent pattern ; but dissolved and reformed into new patterns every time she touched them . |
| 38 | Assembling in front of the Eiffel Tower , the teams drove through France and sailed the Med safely enough before rumbling south from Algiers with back-up that did not include much besides a wing and a prayer . |
| 39 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 40 | It might even be possible to scare him into silence , although when he was brought to Owen 's office in the early hours of the morning that did not seem very likely . |
| 41 | One development that did not have too much to do with NT was the coming together of Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Microsoft Corp and Novell Inc to announce that they will work together to establish , support and implement open standards for network printing management : the four agreed to support Simple Network Management Protocol as a standard for managing peripherals on a local area network . |
| 42 | One development that did not have too much to do with Windows NT last week was the coming together of Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Microsoft Corp and Novell Inc to announce that they will work together to establish , support and implement open standards for network printing management . |
| 43 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 44 | In addition to his military household , rewarded with " annual gifts " of clothes and equipment , Charles had to field armies for the sort of warfare that did not appeal much to Frankish nobles — namely , defensive or non-expansionist war ; and here the availability of cash stipends may have helped recruit professional warriors ( including Vikings ) . |
| 45 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 46 | The brothers enjoyed the hedonistic pleasures of the big city 's pleasures that did not come cheaply . |
| 47 | Marx assumed that this portion is capitalist personal consumption , but this is a highly simplifying assumption that does not hold once we move only marginally away from the very highest level of abstraction at which he was working . |
| 48 | Similarly , once state socialism is abandoned , there is no third way around the market that does not lead straight to economic disaster . |
| 49 | However the distinction between rights and obligations is a crude one that does not reflect accurately the impact of treaties upon third parties . |
| 50 | With the other model that does not apply anymore . |
| 51 | Death is a tragedy ( ! ) and whether it strikes at an eight-year-old youngster 3. ) or a senile old man , a scar is always left on one 4. ) of the survivors — a scar that does not heal quickly . |
| 52 | It was ‘ a scar that does not heal quickly . ’ |
| 53 | The ratio of long- to middle-wave cones ranges from 1.6 to 0.42 for samples from individual animals and for the total sample has a value ( 0.89 ) that does not differ significantly from unity ( ) . |
| 54 | The obsessive vision that propels and sustains Birdy on his long night has a once-in-a-lifetime quality about it , a quirkiness that does not augur well for a successor … |
| 55 | it isolates action as being of interest in itself in a way that does not occur either in dramatic playing or performing . |
| 56 | When you have noted the area where the bream cease to roll and do not appear again in the immediate vicinity , the terminal point will be a few yards further along in the direction they were travelling . |
| 57 | Some of these are specialised and do not compete very much with other markets , whilst others are closely related and highly competitive . |
| 58 | Nevertheless , the view that consumer tastes are in part the result of corporate influence and do not originate exclusively in the autonomous individual will is a persuasive one . |
| 59 | For example some bacteria form ethanol , lactate , or succinate and do not evolve much H 2 because they dispose of reducing energy in these electron sink products . |
| 60 | For instance , the intended subjects are boxes of plants which remain in place and do not change rapidly . |