Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] do [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eight twelves do n't seem particularly bothered about any other area but their valley . ’ |
| 2 | The plight of the rural poor does not tend to loom large in the minds of businessmen , but even they need to pay attention to Thailand 's educational shortcomings . |
| 3 | Yet the top two do not feel as smug as they may sound . |
| 4 | The British contigent do n't like talking about how they were injured . |
| 5 | The flow rate and the post-void residual did not seem in this study to distinguish the group of patients who had obstruction . |
| 6 | Only 13 said they saw no improvement ; 27 were n't sure but did n't think there was any change ; and the remaining 5 did n't answer the question . |
| 7 | So d d d the the six thousand the six hundred does not really apply any more . |
| 8 | Any woman in the early 1970s did not need to be very observant to notice that there were serious dangers of being discredited by name in the media . |
| 9 | However , since not all antislavery public meetings were under the aegis of local societies or linked to their establishment , the fact that some abolitionist groups were chary of a ‘ populist ’ style of activity before the early 1830s does not exclude democratic implications from all antislavery usages of meetings . |
| 10 | The fact that British films of the early 1930s do n't reflect pressing economic and social realities is sometimes blamed on the censorship system . |
| 11 | Overall , the liberalisation which has taken place in the architectural profession since the early 1980s does not seem to have had a revolutionary effect . |
| 12 | Indeed , as the conventional dominant does not exist in a whole-tone scale ( perfect fifths are not available ) , there can not possibly be effects of resolution such as we find in dominant-tonic harmonic movements . |
| 13 | The Famous Five did n't swear and , as far as we know , they did n't have sex . |
| 14 | Good looking women gather in such large numbers that the mere sight of them appeases the appetite , although [ of course ] for the lecherous this does not suffice . |
| 15 | The latter two did not appear to be speaking to each other , and Sid and Algernon were prowling round each other like lean and hungry panthers waiting for an opportunity to strike . |
| 16 | ‘ The last Carry On will be the first that does n't make money . ’ |
| 17 | By the mid-1980s , the leftist policies had been reversed and China was operating more meritocratic principles for selecting those entering the educational elite , yet the social make-up of the successful few did not reflect the totality of the whole society . |
| 18 | They went the twenty seventh did n't they ? |
| 19 | If Professor Lee or others can devise a blueprint for government regulated auditors with financial and business skills to serve the public interest in a way he feels the Big Six do not , he should be aware of a ( minority ) view in these firms that auditing is a high risk , low reward business which is uninteresting by comparison with certain other activities . |
| 20 | Our observations could mean that the presence of genes encoding two of the proteasomes in the MHC may be fortuitous and that the 20S proteasome does not play a role in antigen presentation . |
| 21 | Of 24 patients with chronic type D hepatitis , eight had active hepatitis B virus replication , and the other 16 did not . |
| 22 | One patient lost the pain after the operation but the other two did not . |
| 23 | The brother gave a wave through the rear window , but the other two did n't even look back . |
| 24 | Jonathan the other two did n't so much . |
| 25 | Of the 16 , four opened the containers spontaneously , the other 12 did not . |
| 26 | There are general sort of comments that they do n't really know what the parish council does and they 're not very sure , erm , sort of it , it was mainly through the children 's card thing , perhaps a little bit of money that their child , you know did n't me meet any recognition but would n't it have been nice to know exactly what the picture had been for , and sort of the nitty- gritty does n't necessarily get filtered through . |
| 27 | Although these weaknesses did not show up in the balance of payments until the 1960s this does not mean that the position in the 1950s was anywhere near ‘ entirely satisfactory ’ since the process was then in the making [ cf. |
| 28 | Right last , last week we did erm cold injury in the new born did n't we ? |
| 29 | Great as they were , the numbers of the labouring poor did not approach the level of the arable-farming areas of West Suffolk . |
| 30 | We needed eighty five on the last one did n't we ? |