Example sentences of "[noun pl] do not [vb infin] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He emphasizes that words do not depend on reality for their meaning . |
| 2 | Contraceptives do not grow on trees in doses of which only one would be taken by each deer each year . |
| 3 | Keynesians and monetarists do not agree on this . |
| 4 | If the parties do not agree on the reference , they will still be able to pursue the matter through arbitration or litigation . |
| 5 | Like any self-respecting academics , the Brookings authors do not agree on what the problem is , let alone how to cure it . |
| 6 | The best thing about A Feminist Dictionary , I think , is its overt acknowledgement that speakers do not agree on what words mean , and that sometimes this is an important matter of political debate . |
| 7 | The invisible woman These books do not focus on women at all . |
| 8 | Grandchildren do not appear on Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) hierarchy of preferred carers , indicating that they are very much a minority group subsumed under ‘ other relatives ’ and therefore much less likely to be providing personal care than their parents ' generation . |
| 9 | The best electronic engineers do not grow on trees , nor do excellent executives . |
| 10 | By and large , these directors do not deal on information generated by the financial conglomerate but rather on information acquired by the financial conglomerate . |
| 11 | Most vertebrates , including those without forebrain auditory connections , with functioning auditory systems can detect sounds , discriminate between sound frequencies , and localize sounds by means of orienting movements , indicating that these abilities do not depend on neocortex . |
| 12 | warning lights do not appear on the dashboard unless they are actually needed , thereby giving priority to essential information such as vehicle speed , engine speed and fuel . |
| 13 | As cruise missiles do not rely on long runways , and can be dispersed around the countryside in times of international tension , they are also less likely to be destroyed by a surprise attack . |
| 14 | As the story goes , these are statements , first , which have the distinction that their truth-values do not depend on the truth-values of statements they contain . |
| 15 | A second group of statements has the distinction that their truth-values do not depend on whether there does exist a thing called for by a contained referring expression . |
| 16 | Infants do not discriminate on the basis of age . |
| 17 | Those observations do not assist on the point with which I am concerned . |
| 18 | As a result of these tendencies , the market structure of the eurobond market has generally been categorised as competitive — although such aspects as product differentiation , growth maximising strategies and the inability of a firm to gain infinite demand for its services if it sells at below market prices suggest imperfect rather than perfect competition ( firms do not compete on price alone ) . |
| 19 | Hence the reason why the day centres do not operate on their own but are a part of a flexible range of services . |
| 20 | But Gilligan also says that she is not interested simply in data , and that her arguments do not depend on the statistical significance of her results . |
| 21 | Specialist publications do not exist on articles and news that is exclusive of everything but one subject . |
| 22 | To summarize , presidents do not depend on the trading of favours alone . |
| 23 | The writer is aware that first-rate players can produce a beautifully pure pianissimo up to ( written note ) , but such players do not grow on every bush , and may be taken as about the upward limit for safety in solo work . |
| 24 | We hope that it has not escaped the reader that the predictions concerning the different effects of word and feature masks do not depend on the mask being a word ; they depend only on the mask being composed of letters . |
| 25 | In Bismarck 's view , power politics reflected the law of the jungle , and in the jungle tigers do not feed on grass . |
| 26 | Upon reflection we realise that teachers do not paint on canvases ; their work is not done in isolation . |
| 27 | The lead values do not lie on mixing curve between the Nazca plate basalt and Pacific sediments , and we follow Mukasa and Tilton in considering that mid-ocean-ridge basalt from asthenospheric mantle was not involved . |
| 28 | Thus , many recreational activities do not impinge on the physical environment or landscape with which this section is concerned . |
| 29 | Since , for example , administrative and financial activities do not impinge on plant records , these activities have been separated on two LANs — they work faster and more efficiently separately , and faults in one do not disable the other . |
| 30 | One possibility would be for water companies to install phosphate strippers in sewage works , and machinery to keep water moving in reservoirs , as the blooms do not form on active surfaces . |