Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to think that Anselm did not feel some indignation on reading these words , which implied that he had read too much into Urban II's decree , and that Paschal had not himself been present when those words were spoken . |
| 2 | There were comparable difficulties elsewhere , particularly in Georgia and Uzbekistan , and indeed there were few parts of Soviet territory that did not experience some form of nationalist self-consciousness combined with pressure for a greater degree of cultural and economic autonomy . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've never known a crew planning to mutiny that did not show some sign of it before , ’ said the captain . |
| 4 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 5 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 6 | It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react . |
| 7 | Why , asked the Prince , was Britain the only country in Europe that did not have some kind of community service . |
| 8 | Well might Walsingham remark that there was scarcely a woman in England who did not have some household possession from the sack of Caen , the seizure of Calais , and other English successes in France . |
| 9 | Considering that the body depends on sensitive electrical interactions to function , it would be surprising if these diverse electrical frequencies did not have some effect on us , whether detrimental or otherwise . |
| 10 | Up to a point diversity is good ; local government would be useless if it did not permit some variety and flexibility in provision . |
| 11 | Empirical examples of peaceful societies , which do not need some release mechanism for assumed aggressive drives , should at least alert us to the possibly false linking of human aggression and human nature . |
| 12 | Given the profound cultural pressures on women to diet , it is perhaps pertinent to ask why all women do not develop some level of disordered eating ? |
| 13 | Nowadays , very few excavations take place on sites that do not have some form of threat of damage or destruction , because enough funds are not available to finance a full research excavation on every possible site . |
| 14 | There are few community councils in Wales which do not have some area of countryside or open ground where nature flourishes , be it inland or on the coast . |
| 15 | There are few people who came to know Harold Macmillan who do not have some anecdote about him , and I am fortunate in that having interviewed him at length twice , as well as running into him on a number of other occasions , I have garnered quite a few . |
| 16 | It may therefore be wondered if the drafting of Article 100A(4) does not betray some confusion between that concept and Article 36 . |
| 17 | The golfer who does not suffer some degree of disappointment or annoyance when forced to offer his hand to a victorious opponent is the golfer who will always float in a morass of mediocrity . |
| 18 | This study showed that the opossum does not experience some kind of fit or paralytic unconsciousness . |
| 19 | But if school does not retain some ability to perform this apparently fruitless activity , it will in fact have lost its purpose . |
| 20 | In such discourses , what can be specified about the sender is often justifiably taken for granted , because the student has experience of these discourse types in his or her own language : in the modern world we are unlikely to come across a student who does not have some idea of the nature of news or fiction , and the sort of relationship entered into with the senders . |
| 21 | The main reason why it is not completely random is that one can not be sure in every list that the n th name does not have some significance . |
| 22 | As it is now hard to think of any disorder , physical or mental , that does not have some element of the psychological in its origin , we can , I hope , reject the pejorative meaning . |
| 23 | One person 's point of believing may be another person 's point of doubting ; there is no one who does not have some faith . |
| 24 | That does not mean to say that the bottom line in the FRS 3 p&l account does not have some value : but I would argue that the figure should be called ‘ net income ’ rather than ‘ earnings ’ . |
| 25 | Of the vast multitude of varieties that are available , old and new , and despite the astonishing achievements of the modern breeders and growers , not many varieties match up to all or even most of the desirable specifications , and it is difficult , nay , impossible to name one that does not have some fault somewhere . |