Example sentences of "but they do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they does n't want it . |
| 2 | All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough . |
| 3 | Slopes may lead but they do not break off or fall in the standard language . |
| 4 | Chaffinches reared normally for their first 90 days but then deafened sing the customary crude song ( Figure 3.10c ) at the beginning of their first spring , but they do not improve . |
| 5 | Finally , Schrager and Short focus on ‘ illegal ’ acts , but they do not stress that this refers to acts punishable by the state regardless of whether they are subsumed under civil , administrative , or criminal law . |
| 6 | Thus criminal laws against murder , rape , robbery , and assault do protect us all , but they do not protect us all equally . |
| 7 | But they do not invalidate the point that if a professional organization believes firmly in the principle of ‘ no censorship ’ , then it must be prepared to defend the principle resolutely on every occasion . |
| 8 | Differential ownership of mechanical aids , and differences in the possession of amenities , may affect the way housework is done , and they may have some influence on attitudes to work tasks , but they do not appear to affect satisfaction with work . |
| 9 | The local authorities cited so far can be described as having assimilated the care programme approach , they take it into account and perceive opportunities to be gained , but they do not appear to have changed themselves in any significant way to accommodate it . |
| 10 | They are much used by those on their way to shops , schools or work , especially in the summer months , but they do not meet the needs of large numbers of pedestrians in a variety of ways , such as their uneven or discontinuous walking surfaces , lack of lighting , limited destinations served and so forth . |
| 11 | They make a contribution to employment by virtue of an increase in employment density or or not , depending on whether that increase actually takes place but they do not contribute to the I five provision by virtue of not being a change of use . |
| 12 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 13 | But they do not examine the institutional reasons for low black attainment , or study ‘ race ’ as a social category , and so they often fall into a biologically founded account of absolute ‘ race ’ differences . |
| 14 | But they do not move blindly , in the hope of coming to better pastures . |
| 15 | But they do not alter the basic fact : markets now operate more fluently , reliably and consistently . |
| 16 | They may well limit the uses to which property may be put and hence affect its value , even to the point where owners may prefer not to allow it to be used at all ; but they do not alter the fact that ownership confers the licence to use , or not to use . |
| 17 | Jersey , Guernsey and the Isle of Man offer investor protection schemes equivalent to those on the mainland but they do not cover deposits . |
| 18 | Such objective judgements have some validity , but they do not distinguish between the positive effects of war and the damaging effects of coalition . |
| 19 | Published diaries which record a day-to-day chronology of events may not be the most coherent of records , but they do not suffer from being over-edited , tidied up or altered to fit into hindsight . |
| 20 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 21 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 22 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 23 | These measures may make getting information off the P N C more difficult , but they do not make it impossible . |
| 24 | ‘ 'Men make their own history , ’ to quote the master , ‘ but they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves , but under circumstances directly encountered , given and transmitted from the past . |
| 25 | I 'm going to die , but they do not want me to , and so I try to stay cheerful for them . ’ |
| 26 | The phrase conveys a sense of the desired relationship between elderly people and their relatives , especially their children : they want to be on good terms with them , and to have regular contact with them , but they do not want to rely on them too directly . |
| 27 | Plants have long " known " how to use the energy of sunlight to split water , but they do not evolve hydrogen explicitly , since it is needed only for internal energetic processes within the plant itself as a means for reducing carbon dioxide . |
| 28 | But they do not do so in the wild , so the species remain distinct . |
| 29 | But they do not do this carelessly . |
| 30 | But they do not carry it out , ’ Britton said . |