Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you know that crops do n't grow so well next to pylons and power cables ? |
| 2 | Erm so we just have to accept that tourists do n't dress in those sort of clothes . |
| 3 | Other teachers report that children do n't know how to play . |
| 4 | to establish that emulsions do not break or foams collapse . |
| 5 | Upon reflection we realise that teachers do not paint on canvases ; their work is not done in isolation . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ It happens more often than people realise that children do not want to live with their parents . |
| 7 | Prolific say that intermediaries do not like the more usual two-to five-year period for fixed rate loans , as these lock borrowers out when interest rates fall . |
| 8 | Repton himself comments in his Enquiry that ‘ the ‘ antiquated cot ’ , whose chimney is choked with ivy , may perhaps yield a residence for squalid misery and want ’ ; and an awareness develops that cottages do not have to be ruinous to be picturesque . |
| 9 | A federal government report revealing that diets do n't work has triggered a revolt against the £20 billion slimming industry . |
| 10 | The intention is to illustrate how the conclusions regarding tax incidence may need to be modified when markets do not clear . |
| 11 | However , Northern men are likely to agree that men do n't do enough to look after their children , and they support the idea of women with young children going out to work . |
| 12 | But Friedman argued that matters do not rest there . |
| 13 | As we saw earlier , Piaget argued that children do not understand the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning until the age of about seven years ( i.e. , they do not understand that B because A and A because B mean different things ) . |
| 14 | On the basis of these results , Emerson argued that children do not understand the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning until the age of about seven or eight years . |
| 15 | Now you may have noticed that bullies do n't like having their faults pointed out to them , and so Herod had John locked up in prison . |
| 16 | Publishers must ensure that universities do not become vast , cheap rate republishing businesses . |
| 17 | Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development . |
| 18 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |
| 19 | Studies on attitudes towards the monarchy reveal that respondents do not resemble McGuire 's subjects ( 1964 ) , who were totally unarmed when called upon to defend their cultural truism . |
| 20 | The US Copyright Office has decided that artists do not own the reproduction rights to their work ; the printer does . |
| 21 | But presumably that balance is n't something that 's encouraged either by the discipline of the job , or by a culture that assumes that men do n't have to take on responsibility for those things because women do . |
| 22 | However , even if it is accepted that treaties do not perform a single function and should not all be subject to the same rules , there remains the threshold question of how treaties are best conceptualised and categorised . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's accepted that doctors do n't look after their own families . |
| 24 | After Thursday , a new maxim ought to state that governments do not win elections , oppositions lose them . |
| 25 | It does matter that children do n't leave a drama lesson believing that Cromwell 's army used bazookas and machine guns ! |
| 26 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 27 | GEORGE III is reputed to have said that lawyers do not know much more law than other people , but they know better where to find it . |
| 28 | He says if residents do n't like it , they must complain . |
| 29 | Sexual discrimination is , of course , very common , but it is difficult to detect and women do n't make official complaints . |
| 30 | ‘ Now I wo n't come down on him like a ton of bricks if he misses chances but I do n't want to see him becoming uptight and letting other aspects of his game suffer if things do n't go right — as against Norway . |