Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , although the anecdotal nature of my illustrations do not add up to a seriously informative lecture , with full classifications and statistical support , I do hope they identify areas of particular neglect in our English language studies , and suggest the fruitfulness of these topics for further work . |
| 2 | Rather self-deprecatingly , he reveals that : ‘ It became clear to me that my talents did not lie in selling . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My parents do not share the same repulsion of apartheid that I do . |
| 4 | However , my concerns did not begin with coming to North Shields in 1977 . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State for the Environment 's speeches today and during the Queen 's Speech were full of jokes and banter , but many of my constituents do not view the costly shambles of the poll tax as much of a laughing matter . |
| 6 | I want to ensure that my constituents do not lose the money that they are supposed to invest . |
| 7 | As I represent 25% of the total population of women presidents to date , if my predecessors did not share my feelings a 25% opinion still deserves to be heard , and I believe that some of my successors may well be of the same mind as I am . |
| 8 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 9 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 10 | I was past putting the tent up , celebrating and wondering why my arms did not drop off . |
| 11 | I discovered that some of my results did not agree with those of other observers , and of course everything depends upon the quality of one 's eyesight . |
| 12 | While she does have the merit , in contrast to the majority of researchers , of making the distinction between an inner state and an outward act , her definitions do not emerge as analytic categories to be employed for comparative purposes — mainly because they do not avoid the problem of reification , raised below . |
| 13 | ‘ The difference in their ages does not seem unduly large to me , ’ Wendell interposed . |
| 14 | Fred was a good husband to her and the difference in their ages did not matter to Carrie . |
| 15 | Hydrogen peroxide and its metabolites do not reduce nitroblue tetrazolium , so superoxide may cause the reduction . |
| 16 | None of the band are known for their excessive cordiality towards figures within the business , but unlike Charman , their misgivings did not manifest themselves in the form of ill temper . |
| 17 | Furthermore , as these college-based insiders stress , their essays do not represent police college views or those of the Home Office ; and both Thackrah ( 1985 ) and his publisher , James Tindall , take pains to ensure from the outset that we are aware than any views expressed in the book are ‘ those of individual contributors , and not those of the college , the Home Office , or [ even ] the police service ’ . |
| 18 | Conjugate quantities such as the phase and amplitude of an oscillation can not be simultaneously measured with arbitrary precision because their operators do not commute . |
| 19 | The products of regulatory genes are only involved in regulating other genes and their products do not serve any other function . |
| 20 | For a person to become a registered foreign lawyer it is necessary that his or her profession be one approved by the Law Society , and that its rules do not prohibit partnership in England and Wales with solicitors . |
| 21 | Recent authors , mentioned above , distinguish between Stein 's German action and Walter 's Viennese action because in detail their escapements do not function in quite the same way . |
| 22 | area ‘ comprising some dozen streets adjacent to the King 's Bench debtors ’ prison' where prisoners ‘ who can raise large fees from which their creditors do not derive any benefit , are permitted to reside ’ . |
| 23 | Some companies had suffered because their policies did not suit the King 's diplomacy . |
| 24 | Under the Act , passed in 1973 , federal agencies must consult with the Interior Department to ensure that their activities do not threaten endangered species . |
| 25 | Since noble interests were not always uniform , deference to their wishes did not dictate all the Tsar 's major decisions , but it did inform every sphere , including the fiscal , commercial , and , very often , the tariff policy of the State . |
| 26 | And so it was for Wirral , for , as we shall see in Chapter 2 , the Index was collecting ‘ epidemic ’ data but its guardians did not recognise or communicate the fact . |
| 27 | A banking scandal developed during March when it was revealed that more than 300 current members of the House of Representatives had abused the House bank by writing cheques which their accounts did not have sufficient funds to honour . |
| 28 | Her canvases do not have a flamboyant personal style ; instead they assert the principal that all work ( even the most self-effacing ) has value . |
| 29 | Even as he was preparing to uproot millions of peasants and to destroy their homes , Ceauşescu praised their patriotism in terms ringing with irony : ‘ In the toughest times , their forefathers did not desert the land where they were born , but in brotherhood with it , with the mountains , fields , rivers and great woods , they unflinchingly remained in these parts , defending their being , their right to free existence . ’ |
| 30 | The world lay all before them and , from Liz 's point of view most importantly , its roads did not lead back , to Northam . |