Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Calero , for all his ‘ democratic armour ’ , wished more to fight wars than to play at politics ; the fragile political coalition of leaders did not survive , and there was no constitutional cruise . |
| 2 | The advantages of being in a club of cells do n't stop with size . |
| 3 | It was just a pity that the small stock of provisions did not allow of imaginative cuisine . |
| 4 | Note that the mix of qualities did not change , average values would give the correct index . |
| 5 | A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal held that the supplying was insufficient as an unlawful act because it was not ‘ directed at ’ V. Subsequent decisions are unclear whether the ‘ directed at ’ test remains good law , and a better approach to the facts of Dalby would be to hold that the supplying of drugs did not cause the death because V took them himself . |
| 7 | The hydrophobicity of isolates did not differ significantly between colitic and control groups nor were there significant differences correlated with disease activity . |
| 8 | The sheer mass of words does not mean that research is inspiring . |
| 9 | The first wave of closures did not come until between 15 and 20 years after the Second World War . |
| 10 | ‘ Moreover ’ , it says , ‘ in the last recessionary cycle the peak in business failures did not occur until some 18 months after the recession ended and even then the level of insolvencies did not reduce significantly for a further years . ’ |
| 11 | Unlike a winding-up , the board of directors does not become functus officio on the appointment of a receiver but the directors ' powers are substantially superseded since they can not act so as to interfere with the discharge by the receiver of his responsibilities and accordingly their powers are suspended ‘ so far as is requisite to enable a receiver to discharge his functions . ’ |
| 12 | Recent surveys in the Lake District have shown that the majority of visitors do not come for these ‘ tourist attractions ’ but rather for the fresh air and breathtaking scenery . |
| 13 | However , the statistics seriously underestimate the incidence of rape , since the majority of women do not report cases to the police , considering that they have faced quite enough distress without taking such a case through the courts . |
| 14 | The vast majority of mammals and the vast majority of birds do n't use echolocation , and it is highly probable that their common ancestor did n't either ( nor did it fly — that is another technology that has been independently evolved several times ) . |
| 15 | One source said : ‘ There was a remarkably free-flowing and open discussion at the Cabinet subcommittee as the majority of ministers did not go to the meeting with a departmental brief . |
| 16 | The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes , and many broken homes do not produce delinquents . |
| 17 | It is still the case that the majority of girls do not see themselves as primarily workers or careerists . |
| 18 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 19 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 20 | Declaring that she was ‘ totally and utterly ’ against the use of BST which the majority of farmers did n't want to use . |
| 21 | Declaring that she was ‘ totally and utterly ’ against the use of BST which the majority of farmers did n't want to use . |
| 22 | Last year the majority of students did not take up their loan facility . |
| 23 | ‘ The majority of men do n't want a relationship . |
| 24 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 25 | Licence revenue has proved unreliable as the majority of listeners do not bother to purchase a licence , and radio stations have had to look elsewhere for funds . |
| 26 | It is clear that the proportion of abusers is very small ; it is equally clear that the vast majority of drinkers do not abuse alcohol at all . |
| 27 | Even beyond the middle of the century , when Palladian architecture acquires some rivals , the description of houses does not become more frequent . |
| 28 | The income of inhabitants does not change in the same proportion if they start off in equal housing . |
| 29 | Removal of platelets did not alter relaxation of precontracted muscle by 1×10/l mononuclear cells which was 22 ( 7 ) % with platelets and 26 ( 10% ) without ( p>0.1 , n=7 pairs ) . |
| 30 | Clearly , then , the provision of railways does not lead inevitably to industrialization . |