Example sentences of "they do not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differences exist between the media of tempera and oil , or oil and acrylic , but they do not have the importance of contrasts in other material processes . |
| 2 | However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas . |
| 3 | What is required , he wrote , is to find an outlet for those energies , for those needs and desires , so that they do not turn inward and rend you to pieces , an outlet , he wrote , but never to imagine that what we do is ever going to be an everlasting achievement . |
| 4 | Many of the interiors created by the designers of such facilities are as forbidding as the old-fashioned spit-and-sawdust pub ; any lingering atmosphere is swept away in a barrage of stained wood and fake Victoriana , and any casual visitors made to feel inordinately guilty if they do not , alas , wish to eat . |
| 5 | Dorset Fire Safety Committee senior fire prevention officer Ian Clark said : ‘ One of the biggest problems with hotels is that they do not maintain the requirements of the Fire Certificate . ’ |
| 6 | Lay the fruit stem uppermost on shelves or in shallow boxes so that they do not touch each other . |
| 7 | The rather shy students must be encouraged to shout the launching orders clearly and loudly , so that if they need to shout ‘ stop ’ , they do not hesitate because they are reluctant to raise their voice . |
| 8 | I believe that this is because they do everything so well that they do not get excessive pitching movements in their training stall recoveries . |
| 9 | This is a permanent method of contraception and is only recommended for those who are absolutely sure that they do not want any more children . |
| 10 | These grants however are discretionary — that means they do not have to be given so there will be variations from one district to another . |
| 11 | This facet of the culture is perhaps the reason why the British administrative and academic élites have obliquely indicated to the police that they do not consider them fit to be allowed to take charge of police research . |
| 12 | I have also had to tell others they are unlikely to get in and then try to explain the politics of the department to them and watch their dismay when they realize that , perhaps regardless of merit , they do not fit in . |
| 13 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 14 | Even if they do not have to hide , they will be like lieutenants to us now — ‘ |
| 15 | They do not show surprise when the fall of the screen is resisted by the out-of-sight object . |
| 16 | Clearly , they do not look the same length ; and clearly the child 's thought is focused on the tips ( ‘ centrated on ’ in the jargon ) . |
| 17 | May I ask of any of your readers have any of these cutters they do not need and would wish to sell them ? |
| 18 | They do not have to be paid back . |
| 19 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 20 | regularly validating lists to ensure that they do not contain the names of patients no longer requiring treatment ; |
| 21 | It is not easy to achieve this effect if they do not take into account the dimension and spacing of the steps as well as their particular quality , which must be in tune with the music if it is to make sense . |
| 22 | Some are still around and , although they do not have the power , compare reasonably well in quality with modern wonders . |
| 23 | But Norris has given a further and suggestive explanation : ‘ The possession of a written Constitution whose principles are yet open to all manner of far-reaching judicial review … gives a political edge to questions of textual and interpretative theory that they do not have in the British cultural context . ’ |
| 24 | I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face . |
| 25 | Or , if they do not , they have to take on trust the material that the New Historicist scholar-critic hands them . |
| 26 | But no one will seriously maintain that the verses do not have a design upon us ; that they do not promulgate a message — the message that all secular explanations of human life are vain and inadequate . |
| 27 | Though the powers of Vice Chancellors are considerable , they do not include the power to make two and two make five . |
| 28 | We must try to ensure that , as a result of our own genetic manipulation , they do not turn out to be unpleasant surprises . |
| 29 | AS anti-climaxes go , they do not come better than this . |
| 30 | They do not want to operate independently because they are unable to do so . ’ |