Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde is clear about the answer , but the rest of the Opposition do not agree with him . |
| 2 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 3 | They are not always on the best of terms with the carters with whom they have to deal , and threats of actual violence do not tend to the increase of business . |
| 4 | We are never engaged in their lives ; we do not believe in them , and as a result do not care about them . |
| 5 | The placing of the concept of the Created God entirely in that period of the earth 's history which follows the advent of life , means that science and religion do not need to be at variance . |
| 6 | Staff in the Banking industry do not need to be programmed into how to handle a customer . |
| 7 | The arguments presented in this chapter do not lead to comfortable conclusions that can be instantly assimilated . |
| 8 | American and Soviet leaders might also feel compelled to reach an understanding over a country/territory where the risks of direct military confrontation do not appear worth the pursuit of particular local or regional interests . |
| 9 | Similar trends are apparent in the series for cumulated inflows , suggesting that the observed changes in the stock do not arise from revaluation effects alone . |
| 10 | This is not to say that some good pieces of research do not emerge from almost accidental findings of research workers . |
| 11 | The terms of this statutory instrument do not extend to arbitrators acting as experts , nor to the failure to deliver a decision within a reasonable time ( see 14.7.3 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ And I can only say that the Master will not like it if his breakfast and lunch do not arrive on time , because he serves his maid coffee , engages her in chit-chat , and encourages her to read disreputable papers when she ought to be blackleading the range , or scrubbing the kitchen floor . ’ |
| 13 | The close company provisions of Section 282 Income and Corporation Taxes Act do not apply to the Company . |
| 14 | Section 7(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 provides that the sweeping provisions of section 4(1) of the Act do not apply to criminal cases . |
| 15 | Though government data on accidents at work do not distinguish between manual and non-manual workers , they differentiate according to industries . |
| 16 | The suggested analogies relied on with ecclesiastical courts and military courts which apply wholly distinct areas of law do not seem to me to be helpful or valid . |
| 17 | Another piece of evidence that p53 and K-rase do not cooperate in large bowel epithelium is the finding of ras mutation accompanied by p53 overexpression in an adenoma cell line , isolated by Dr C Paraskevas ( personal communication ) . |
| 18 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |
| 19 | Indeed , many forms of treatment by hypnosis do not call for the patient to utter a word . |
| 20 | Smoking and alcohol consumption do not predispose to the development of metaplastic columnar lined oesophagus in patients with severe gastro-oesophageal reflux but are strongly associated with the development of adenocarcinoma in patients with established Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 21 | The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters . |
| 22 | When asked a question do not rush at your answer but give yourself a second or two to compose your thoughts . |
| 23 | Thistle do not shrink from task Motherwell 2 Partick Thistle 3 |
| 24 | A different way of questioning the justification of corporate power in terms of wealth maximisation is to argue that at least beyond a certain level of prosperity , increases in wealth do not compensate for , can not be traded-off against , the accumulation of power . |
| 25 | Divide them into two teams and the game is for them to head the balloon over the string and hope the opposing team do not succeed in returning it . |
| 26 | He concluded that satisfaction and dissatisfaction with the job do not come from the presence or absence of one set of factors . |
| 27 | In the US Census data for 1970 , more than one in ten of the adult population is an ‘ unattached individual ’ ; in the British Census data for 1966 , about one in twelve of the population do not live in families . |
| 28 | The images and symbols that are used in Between to demonstrate the mechanics of the imagination do not pretend to be original ; they are self-consciously mined in the cultural history of the West . |
| 29 | Councillor has said that we have , that his group do not believe in the testing of seven year olds . |
| 30 | Though all members of a cycle group do not need to be competent in all five of the recognised face skills , the team as a whole must be able to deploy sufficient resources on each shift to man the roles likely to arise . |