Example sentences of "[that] they [adv] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their inability to concentrate or order their thoughts means that they generally do not learn much at school , even though they may be quite intelligent . |
| 2 | People who claimed that they generally did not dream , when woken from REM sleep , did in fact report dreams , but they were particularly prone to forgetting them — if woken after the REM period was over , they recalled even fewer instances of dreaming than those who claimed regularly to recall dreams in the morning.6 In another study generally confirming these findings it was also noticed that " non-dreamers " tended to report that they were awake and thinking when woken from REM sleep . |
| 3 | Even if there are little windows of time between jobs , teachers often feel that they simply do n't have the energy to take advantage of them . |
| 4 | In my experience , children find it extremely frustrating to be fired with enthusiasm for a topic but then to find that they simply do not have the skill to express themselves . |
| 5 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 6 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 7 | We tried to hope that they were going to release Franky and that they simply did n't want the rest of us to get angry and depressed . |
| 8 | It simply had n't occurred to him that her resistance to their becoming lovers might be rooted in the fact that they simply did n't love each other . |
| 9 | However , the appellants ' case in respect of that matter is that they simply did not realise that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 10 | We expected that a number — perhaps an embarrassingly large number — of students would decide that they simply did not like our courses , and we were prepared to smooth the path of transfer . |
| 11 | It was apparent to Theodora , if not to the Inspector , that they simply did not know . |
| 12 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 13 | As creatures of habit , you will find that they soon do not even attempt to climb on furniture , but voluntarily retire to their bed . |
| 14 | A major problem with newsletters to parents is that they frequently do n't get to their destination . |
| 15 | Mr Lindsey was predicting in early January that the majority of customers this year would probably opt for a variable rate , on the basis that they probably did not believe interest rates would drop very much further . |
| 16 | They probed and measured and cross-questioned Phoebe in the most condescending manner , made worse by the fact that they clearly did not have a clue as to what might have happened . |
| 17 | It involves recasting sentences so that they clearly do not exclude either women or men . |
| 18 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 19 | ‘ You see , the trouble with guitars that are designed to project is that they just do n't sound good to the player . |
| 20 | People find that they just do n't have time to get bored in a resort that has so much on offer . |
| 21 | Some farmers have been so convinced by industry-generated publicity over the absence of a proper income that they just have n't bothered declaring any income . |
| 22 | say that women have been discriminated against for so long that they just have n't had the opportunities to rise up through the ranks , and if they are ever going to achieve the kind of representation that they ought to achieve just by the sheer numbers that the represent in the population , apart from the quality , and there are a lot of people who would say that women are probably rather superior erm to a lot of men at an equal level |
| 23 | An officer said : ‘ It may be that they just did n't act quickly enough for him . ’ |
| 24 | No doubt you are among the many who have tried every diet around only to find that they just did n't work . |
| 25 | Even though objectively , he had all the strength on his side , and if he 'd only stubbornly insisted , the allies would have had to accept the fourteen points , because there was no way that they just did n't have any erm , any clout really when when finally settled in peace . |
| 26 | Moreover , the fact that they usually did not come from commercial backgrounds and were stationed in political capitals rather than commercial or industrial centres also tended to limit their effectiveness . |
| 27 | It 's very new to me ; it 's just too bad that they still have n't come up with the perfect guitar synth . |
| 28 | The pensioners complained on the eve of the first anniversary of the publisher 's death that they still did not know how long their pensions would be paid . |
| 29 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 30 | It might be that they genuinely do not feel that they have the energy or even the interest to effect change in their lives . |