Example sentences of "they [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that how would they prefer not to work so hard |
| 2 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 3 | Between November 1981 and November 1983 , encouragement was given to unemployed men over the age of 60 to withdraw from the labour force by offering to pay them the long-term rate of supplementary benefit if they agreed not to register as unemployed . |
| 4 | They gleamed not only about Mama 's neck but tumbled almost as far as her waist — and could seem all different colours . |
| 5 | But they made not the least reply . |
| 6 | They asked not only about feeding , weaning and toileting practices , but also about such matters as the mothers ' ways of handling dependent and aggressive behaviour , their methods of disciplining , their feelings towards pregnancy , overt expression of affection , and adjustment in marriage . |
| 7 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 8 | In particular , do they affect not only the presentation but the substance of government decisions ? |
| 9 | ‘ Partly common or garden jealousy , I think , and partly because they tend not to get involved in all the politics that goes on . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The airlines all know , of course , but they tend not to make it public for commercial reasons . ’ |
| 11 | Fourteen partial or complete sets are known , especially from graves in Kent , but also from the upper Thames valley where they tend not to be complete . |
| 12 | It is n't their height but their shapely form that attracts discerning hillgoers , and since many of the tops are not included in tick lists — some of the Scottish ones do n't even get Corbett status — they tend not to be as popular as their loftier neighbours . |
| 13 | So they tend not to thrive in dry centrally heated rooms . |
| 14 | Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories ! |
| 15 | When adults get upset about someone 's behaviour , they tend not to confront the protagonist , but withdraw into themselves . |
| 16 | Although they receive notification from education of the intention to assess a child , they are uncertain of their role , and so , with other pressing priorities , they tend not to give it high priority . |
| 17 | However , lack of cover leads to the birds feeling insecure so they tend not to stray too far from the hen house . |
| 18 | Firstly , they tend not to originate from a real typographic font but are often variations on an original while , secondly , being bitmaps they can not be scaled . |
| 19 | And , because they are designed to operate at a lower cost level they tend not to make demands for expensive peripherals such as PostScript devices or even simpler page printers such as Epsons and Okis that emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet . |
| 20 | They tend not to explore what difference it makes who takes part in the public-policy process , or else they assume that the beneficiaries of public policy can simply be " read-off " from information about group participation because of uncomplicated assumptions about all groups being able to participate in order to advance their own interest . |
| 21 | Because generally speaking … when they get a bee in their bonnet , they tend not to write letters . |
| 22 | Repetition is something many students avoid at all costs , and in their early music they tend not to repeat a single bar in an entire composition . |
| 23 | What they tend not to tell you is how well a given PC stacks up against others … |
| 24 | Furthermore , they tend not to maintain a clear distinction between the speaker 's intended meaning on the one hand , and the message used to convey that meaning to a listener on the other . |
| 25 | No , but , even , even some of those erm the only thing is they tend to get work and they tend not to tell you they 've done it . |
| 26 | erm Well the schools communicate , but they tend not to tell the parents the obvious things . |
| 27 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 28 | They influence not only the way the audience receives cultural texts , but also what gets exhibited in museums , the paintings we see in books and magazines and on television , and what gets taught in the art schools . |
| 29 | To crush their rivals , therefore , they sought not to limit the power of the Grand Prince but to gain influence over him by identifying themselves with the elevation of his personal authority . |
| 30 | They sought not the abolition of hired labour , private enterprise and the commodity market but the abolition of the many semi-feudal bonds which survived the Edict of 1861 ; and they sought the transfer of noble land into their own hands . |