Example sentences of "[noun pl] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Accordingly , makers and dealers in ‘ bootleg ’ recordings did not commit this tort even though their activities very seriously affected the value of a contract giving a recording company the exclusive right to exploit live performances . |
| 32 | And attempts by several African countries , including Zimbabwe , Kenya , Nigeria and South Africa ( would you believe it ? ) to ban sales of these soaps do not seem to have done much to lessen its ' widespread use . |
| 33 | Rights and privileges do not pose any particular problems in the case of children . |
| 34 | The guidelines do not talk about developing a structure that is crucial to the quality delivery of services . |
| 35 | The current guidelines do not cover these matters and this will obviously vary from project to project . |
| 36 | It is important to banks that accounting guidelines do not prevent the efficient financing of loans . |
| 37 | It should be noted that the Guidelines do not form part of the Code and are not enforceable under the Bye–Laws of The Engineering Council . |
| 38 | Although the guidelines do not have the force of law , they do influence the doctors ' judgement . |
| 39 | The guidelines do not have the force of law but are persuasive given the power of institutional shareholders . |
| 40 | 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 ’ . |
| 41 | But these people 's delusions do not convince me that Satan is a fiction , and psychological arguments against him by psychiatrists have no philosophical bite that carries conviction . |
| 42 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 43 | Although it is appealing to believe that bits of the two stories can be added together , we maintain that there are always two stories to tell and that combinations do not solve the problem . |
| 44 | the vertical 250 squares DO NOT represent the same number of rows of knitting . |
| 45 | His lips did not move by a fraction of an inch , but the expression in his eyes said he was amused and prepared to bide his time . |
| 46 | While orthodox Marxist — Leninism of the Comintern period offered no serious accounts of liberal democratic practices and institutions , neo-Marxists have tried to come to terms with phenomena which classical Marxists did not anticipate , especially the advent of some form of mixed economy and the growth of an extended welfare state in every advanced capitalist society . |
| 47 | Piers did not have meat , but only cheese , loaves of beans and bran and various vegetables , and it was on these that he would have to live until Lammas and the new harvest . |
| 48 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 49 | Nevertheless , petition-drawers did not have a particularly good reputation among Sinhalese . |
| 50 | The characters in the lists do not have specific weapons . |
| 51 | Electoral registers , street directories , etc. , were either inappropriate ( these lists do not indicate birth-place or nationality ) or unavailable ( for example , Council housing or rating lists ) . |
| 52 | There exists , however , a very large class of exceptional solutions in which curvature singularities do not occur . |
| 53 | A total of 367 pupils in Wales took the GT4 test ( two schools did not return tests ) approximately one-third using the Welsh language versions . |
| 54 | However , since this is not a prerequisite for acceptance on the Minor Project , some schools did not form one , and several of those which were formed appear to have lapsed following the completion of the school 's spending phase . |
| 55 | The difficulty arose because for the most part the single-sex grammar schools did not want to become co-educational , in spite of the court 's ruling . |
| 56 | Only 600 schools did not take up the offer of half-price computers . |
| 57 | The regime of the major public schools did not suit him , Christian explained . |
| 58 | Cross-sector links between primary and secondary schools did not seem to be well developed . |
| 59 | But that modern schools struggled to make themselves in various ways as academic as grammar schools did not entail any real equality between the two kinds of school . |
| 60 | The direct-grant schools did not like these proposals , and had little to gain from them . |