Example sentences of "people [verb] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national liberal politician , Johannes von Miquel , wrote that ‘ the suggested constitution could not be compared with the Swiss or American model ’ , adding for good measure that ‘ great peoples do not copy ’ . |
| 2 | There is increasing evidence that the original island peoples did not migrate eastwards from continental Asia , but evolved independently for millennia amongst the isolated atolls of the south Pacific — resulting in a different turn of mind . |
| 3 | A senior London police officer was attempting to attract black recruits into the police force , whilst denying that racism in the force might have deterred black people from joining in the past : ‘ Racism in the force is not the main reason for black people preferring not to apply . |
| 4 | Let us examine the implications of this ; property crime became by far the most common form of crime during the period in which the prison emerged ; therefore forced labour would have become the most common punishment ; forced labour requires incarceration ( people tend not to turn up for it of their own free will ) . |
| 5 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 6 | People tend not to work particularly well in teams in this country . |
| 7 | Democracy should embody the popular will — ; ‘ every law which the people has not ratified is null , void is in fact not a law . |
| 8 | The abuse of older people has not attained equal priority . |
| 9 | They were hidden away , and people tried not to let anyone see them . |
| 10 | The other people seemed not to notice . |
| 11 | We have all been exposed to loads of publicity about the poor quality of tap water because of recent low rainfall — yet a remarkable number of people seem not to have considered the effects of this on small delicate species . |
| 12 | People decide not to get married but to go ahead and have children anyway . |
| 13 | He regrets the decision not to re-title the revision : ‘ It was completely rewritten , but keeping the title meant that a lot of people decided not to buy it . |
| 14 | In Kufra , in 1979 , some people did not pay their contribution to the small boy who visited the houses , so their shaikh went in person . |
| 15 | I could imagine her discomfiture as a natural approval of this evidence of my religious feeling vied with her conviction that normal people did not go to church unless compelled by the Sabbath . |
| 16 | People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed . |
| 17 | There were concerts in the town , of course , but poor people did not go to concerts . |
| 18 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 19 | Those kind of people did not drift through their days in a bored and aimless way , as she of ten did . |
| 20 | If all British people did not feel deeply hurt by this ‘ there 's something wrong with you … ’ |
| 21 | The Home Office appears to have no clear idea why two million voters are not registered , nor why 11 million people did not vote in 1987 . |
| 22 | It is clear that Lenin 's references to ‘ primitive democracy ’ and the delegation of state functions to ordinary people did not mean that he thought there would be no place for administration in a socialist state . |
| 23 | O.G.S. Crawford refused a paid advertisement for the book in the journal Antiquity , his objection centring around the view that prehistoric people did not walk in straight lines , as all the undoubted prehistoric roads were winding . |
| 24 | Pace seemed to have slowed up ; people did not walk but drifted ; sound was muted , mopped up by space and carpeting . |
| 25 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 26 | This was an important line of argument which showed that many French people did not relish the idea of losing their independence to European bodies . |
| 27 | In the latter local people did not perceive themselves to be involved in assessing need and planning strategies . |
| 28 | Generally speaking , people did not move very far . |
| 29 | The second question , asking whether dreaming is accompanied by flaccid paralysis , was agreed with by a surprising 48 respondents , although these people did not show themselves to be well informed about the other questions . |
| 30 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |