Example sentences of "they do not [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Patients respond to nurses in a way they do n't to doctors or other researchers . ’
2 They do n't to be quite honest .
3 They do n't to September , October , it is in n it ?
4 Or , you know something like that but you see they what they keep thinking is that erm you know , they do n't to be together you know , on their own and this is the way I think they think .
5 They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on .
6 But they do n't , they do n't at all
7 If they do n't wriggle free of blame , they do n't in any case care .
8 In the north of England they have New Year 's Day but they do n't in the south in England , they might do now .
9 Well they do n't in fact Gill , in fact horse chestnuts are rather interesting , that technically what 's called andromonetius which means they have male flowers and hermaphrodite flowers on the same , so it 's hedging its bets all ways round .
10 At least they do n't in Bath and you have to write the address on the front .
11 They do not for the most part take a position like that of Boas and Evans-Pritchard which rejects the very notion that there are general laws governing human history ; and if they do not , it would seem that they too are driving , however cautiously , towards an understanding of human history in general , in other words toward a theory of human evolution .
12 All babies need feeding and changing and there are not too many ways of doing it ; the range and subtlety of young babies ' gestures is restricted ( they do not for instance converse ) , and in response , mothers tend to simplify and exaggerate their own gestures .
13 They do not on the whole deny a male bias in conventional English , but they pretend to object to change on purely linguistic grounds — for instance that one should not tamper with grammar , that nonsexist forms are unaesthetic or even , as a last resort , that willed changes in language destroy freedom of thought and usher in totalitarianism .
14 Wells concludes that " adolescents and adults , faced with a new linguistic environment , can adapt their speech to a certain extent by modifying the phonetic realisation of their phonemes ; but they do not on the whole succeed in acquiring new phonological oppositions or in altering the distributional constraints on their phonology " ( Wells 1973 : 118 ) .
15 If , by agreement with the continuing partners , the personal representatives , themselves duly authorised by provisions in the will or otherwise , are content to leave the deceased 's share in the continuing firm by way of loan , for example to help the firm over some temporary financial difficulty , they do not on that account become entitled to any account of the profits of the firm , merely to payment of interest at the agreed rate .
16 Little owls will kill small mammals and small birds but they do not as a rule consume the flesh direct .
17 Another potentially distorting factor is that whilst average incomes can be compared between one country and another , they do not of themselves reveal the true comparable standard of living , nor the comparable potential markets for all products .
18 Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone .
19 Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone .
20 It follows that names can not be descriptions , for descriptions are invariably complex , and ( it is implied ) inherently ambiguous , i.e. they do not by themselves ensure the uniqueness of the referential relation in any given case of referring .
21 Logic suggests that 16 should be the age of consent for this conduct , too , but the CLRC took the view that young men of 16 and 17 need protection from this kind of behaviour , whereas they do not from other kinds of sexual contact .
22 They do not in themselves betoken infection , although they can be taken as indirect evidence of infection in many cases .
23 The basic definition of ‘ development ’ being so wide , a substantial number of activities or changes have been arranged so they do not in fact need specific consent .
24 They do not in fact share the same context .
25 However a word of warning : good as these books are for giving you techniques to help you remember strings of unrelated facts , numbers or words , they do not in any way show you how to train your memory to remember other facts in a different context .
26 Acceptable collocational patterns and grammatical structures can only enhance the readability of individual sentences , but they do not in themselves ensure that sentences and paragraphs add up to a readable or coherent text .
27 Again , there are complex vertical linkages in the industry and , again , there is a block exemption which covers distribution arrangements within the industry , provided they remain within certain parameters ( which the European Community 's DGIV believe they do not in some respects ) .
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