Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] do n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after initiation into an exhilarating world of sex , drugs and high-stakes risk , Michael finds that rewards do n't come cheap and Alex is a difficult friend to lose . |
| 2 | How can we be sure that employers do n't use Work Experience to cover for unfilled vacancies ? |
| 3 | Roy Hattersley , Labour 's deputy leader , said : ‘ I want to look very carefully at the idea to make sure that clubs do n't go out of business and that large families on low incomes can still go to football matches . ’ |
| 4 | He reckoned that gentlemen did n't have such experiences . |
| 5 | Tomlinson ( 1984 ) showed that Caribbean parents wanted schools to focus on basic skills , discipline and equal opportunities in examinations and that Muslim parents felt that schools did n't attempt to recognise their cultural and religious values . |
| 6 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 7 | ‘ We try to play as many venues as possible close to major cities so that fans do n't have to travel too far . |
| 8 | ‘ I am surprised that dentists do n't advocate the use of fluoride tablets , ’ wrote a SHE reader recently . |
| 9 | ‘ So you think we should do nothing , ’ Denis said , remembering Hardy 's conviction that Jews do n't resist . |
| 10 | Never let anyone , or any diet , convince you that calories do n't count in achieving weight loss . |
| 11 | The food industry knows from long experience that shoppers do n't act rationally . |
| 12 | Dosh and Freddie did n't take much persuading but Chase thankfully declined saying that parties did n't like him . |
| 13 | At the moment , experts are not very helpful , since they tend to disagree among themselves , or to hedge their conclusions around with so many qualifications that parents do n't know how to apply them to their individual child . |
| 14 | The problem stems from the rule , introduced last year , which said that non-taxpayers did n't have to pay tax on bank or building society interest . |
| 15 | He does n't really mean that elephants do n't need an explanation ; rather that he is satisfied that biologists can explain elephants , provided they are allowed to take certain facts of physics for granted . |
| 16 | ‘ Sometimes we get the feeling that Christians do n't want to get involved in the world unless they are in control of it , ’ said Fr Mangunwijaya , who led a discussion on ‘ The church under the present condition of a diaspora situation ’ . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that airlines do n't train their pilots on real aircraft , otherwise they might quickly run out of both pilots and aircraft ( as well as instructors ) . |
| 18 | Setting up services that carers do n't want is obviously wasteful . |
| 19 | As I have written in another context ( Dreamers , 1984 ) , ‘ Humanity is going to look pretty silly if it turns out that dreams do n't mean anything at all . ’ |
| 20 | But the advantage of the book was that things did n't go wrong , he could control his existence , predict , re-write history . |
| 21 | She was always surprised that things did n't fall on her from the sky more often , considering how much was up there these days . |
| 22 | Eric writes from his perspective as well , and the common thread is that things do n't last — nothing lasts . ’ |
| 23 | Fortunate that things do n't happen all at the same time . |
| 24 | It was hard to explain that things do n't work that way in Hull . |
| 25 | Third , BT 's financial strength means that customers do n't have to worry about it still being around in five years time . |
| 26 | Do the books that writers do n't write matter ? |
| 27 | It 's equally important that goods do n't get damaged on their way to the shop floor , or when they arrive there . |
| 28 | It was Mr Smith 's view , before the April 9 nightmare , that Oppositions do n't win elections — governments lose them . |
| 29 | However , the old adage that leaders do n't lose elections should be seriously questioned . |
| 30 | The network operating system will be available on Sparcservers only to begin with — ‘ the systems that users do n't see , ’ as one official put it — though workstation configurations are expected to follow . |