Example sentences of "[is] that [pron] do not " in BNC.

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1 Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent .
2 ‘ Our biggest problem is that we do not have an organisation in the country that has a monitoring role for the quality of our soil . ’
3 Our main concern as a group is that we do not waste the money .
4 ‘ The point is that we do not need any further research to resolve the policy issues .
5 What so often happens is that we do not share feelings till finally the back filter gets overloaded and we literally blow a hole through it sending forth a gush of accusations which are totally counterproductive .
6 The short answer to this question is that we do not know how homoeopathic remedies work any more than we know how the majority of orthodox pharmaceuticals work .
7 The answer is that we do not discriminate against anyone , even fax-toting sociopaths like Watson Weeks .
8 ‘ But what is important is that we do not lose these sort of players from our game because of these things .
9 By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis .
10 The truth is that we do not even know what our ancestors actually looked like .
11 The point here is that we do not have an applicable criterion of a correct verdict other than the one which results from a fair trial ( Rawls , 1972 , pp. 83–9 ) .
12 This is that we do not have an a priori conception of reality which allows for a range of possible universes , empirical inquiry determining just which of those possibilities is realized .
13 The first is that we do not see how states could possibly be regarded as merely one kind of actor among several on the international scene .
14 The objection , again , is that we do not in our standard causal thinking have or use such an idea .
15 The first is that we do not have a certain general idea , since often we do not have certain specific ideas .
16 The reason that we can not calculate the necessary correction is that we do not know which way the photon went when it bounced into the microscope .
17 The difficulty with these two studies , unfortunately , is that we do not know how many patients ended up with a definite myocardial infarction ; an initial electrocardiogram only was used .
18 The truth of the matter is that we do not know how — in any meaningful , scientific , experimentally demonstrable sense — advertising works .
19 Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them .
20 But the important point to remember is that we do not observe these sociolinguistic patterns directly : it is the speech of individuals in conversational settings that we observe and describe , and it is by analysing a large quantity of spoken language from many speakers that we can then demonstrate the patterns that emerge from our data .
21 The fundamental one in an investigation of this kind is that we do not need to accept any prior assumption about how society at large is organized or structured , and so in our interpretation we do not need to import any presuppositions from theories of social class and social structure or taxonomies of class or status , which may of course be controversial .
22 The pity is that we do not sufficiently encourage them to conduct those explorations .
23 The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is .
24 The difficulty is that we do not have enough evidence to come to a sure conclusion .
25 One problem is that we do not necessarily know what a particular wavefunction looks like , and it is here that the LCAO approach to the construction of molecular orbitals is very useful .
26 The sad fact is that we do not always treat our children very well .
27 One of our difficulties — and one reason why debates such as this are so welcome — is that we do not yet quite understand or know what we are trying to achieve .
28 Our problem is that we do not understand how officials can know whether a claim is frivolous until they have looked at it .
29 The answer is that we do not intend to meet all that shortfall .
30 The problem is that we do not as yet know how fluent Braille takes place , or what strategies fast readers use .
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