Example sentences of "[num] [n mass] do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10 People do not interrupt each other . |
| 2 | Sir , — Both Mr. Newland and Mr. Chandler have referred to my earlier letter on prescription charge exemptions , when I pointed out that five out of six people do not pay for prescriptions . |
| 3 | Inset left Sam on her tractor-mower : ‘ Three sheep do n't eat enough grass to keep six and a half acres looking tidy ’ |
| 4 | Well our research has shown that something like eighty percent of all small business 's do n't undertake any formal training within their first three years of operation and more than sixty percent do not do any formal business planning or look further ahead than one month from today . |
| 5 | I understand that about 1 billion people did not register in the recent census . |
| 6 | Now this is supposed to be Scotland 's national day , however , amongst this hundred eighty people do n't celebrate it , twenty do ! |
| 7 | I WAS interested to read that one in five people does n't sleep well . |
| 8 | They usually do not because the one species does not respond to the sexual lures of the other . |
| 9 | Newly mounted cavalry , eighteen battalions of infantry and twenty-two cannon did not constitute an army , but they certainly added up to a threat . |
| 10 | Oh one or two people do n't seem to understand quietly . |
| 11 | Two people do n't get in each other 's way . |
| 12 | It 's like slang like , if two people do n't know each other they talk like formally but if two people know each uvver they use slang , you know to get across because they know each other personally . |
| 13 | The Home Office appears to have no clear idea why two million voters are not registered , nor why 11 million people did not vote in 1987 . |
| 14 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 15 | In opting for the topic the Pope ‘ focused attention across the world on the fact that several million people do not have the minimum necessary to lead a life in accord with their dignity as daughters and sons of God ’ . |
| 16 | The blue tits in any area may vary , but they can not be divided into two or more discrete groups ( except by sex , or by age ) , and the distinction between blue tits and great tits in any area is absolute ; intermediates do not exist because the two species do not interbreed . |
| 17 | And in the 1950s people did not buy things they could not afford — credit and debt were shameful things to be avoided . |