Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalglish 's mutli-million pound crusade for a Premier League place could come off the rails if his side do not win . |
| 2 | If the Opposition do not cost their proposals , we do . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde is clear about the answer , but the rest of the Opposition do not agree with him . |
| 4 | The Opposition do not say where they stand , can not say where they stand and can not admit to the jobs that would be lost if their policy were carried out . |
| 5 | The Opposition do not understand that we have to provide for the full life of the Trident system — for 30 years . |
| 6 | We all welcome his precision in noting the fact that the Opposition do not have a proper policy . |
| 7 | As the play goes on , we notice that when Tamburlaine is confronted by war , he first offers words as a way of warning and deterrent , and then is the opposition do not listen , he follows this up with swift and bloody actions . |
| 8 | The reason why the Opposition do not like Question Time and try to drown my right hon. Friend out is that they know that we are right in everything that we say and that the country will not support them on their policies . |
| 9 | The Opposition do not like to draw attention to that , but the Government are very proud of having created so many new owner-occupiers . |
| 10 | Many grounds of public law illegality do not rule out the making of the same decision again . |
| 11 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 12 | Thus it is arguable that the traditions of the Comptroller 's Department do not fit the task of examining commercial accounts . |
| 13 | I know my colleagues in the creative department do not agree . |
| 14 | In fact , the uncertain times of Terris ' appearances have had such an effect on workmen that the Maintenance Department do not allow their staff to work in the station through the night in case the ghost interferes with their potentially dangerous work . |
| 15 | It is essential that the members of a history department do not see the introduction of National Curriculum history as their entire curriculum . |
| 16 | They are not always on the best of terms with the carters with whom they have to deal , and threats of actual violence do not tend to the increase of business . |
| 17 | Crimes of violence do not negate law , they merely require its better enforcement . |
| 18 | We are never engaged in their lives ; we do not believe in them , and as a result do not care about them . |
| 19 | The placing of the concept of the Created God entirely in that period of the earth 's history which follows the advent of life , means that science and religion do not need to be at variance . |
| 20 | However , as we noted earlier , most organizations which adopt fund accounting do not keep all their funds completely separate . |
| 21 | However , with the economic situation in the country deteriorating seriously , the prospects for the normalisation of trading conditions in the near future do not look promising . |
| 22 | Firms that are hopeful about the future do not take such measures . |
| 23 | Its articles of association do not use the term " member " in any other sense . |
| 24 | The Residents ' Association do not consider that the calculated economic benefit of a western relief road outweighs the net environmental harm . |
| 25 | Our thesis is that our traditional models and ways of thinking do not allow us to understand complex processes and — which is worse : often mislead us about appropriate responses . |
| 26 | First , gathering , hunting , and fishing do not represent clearly different technological stages but always occur together so long as the environment permits the combination . |
| 27 | Stagger the segments so that the joints of one ring do not meet the joints of the second ring segments . |
| 28 | Quine 's version of logical empiricism would support a version of foundationalism not vulnerable to the arguments of chapter 5 , since for him the observation statements basic to justification , verification and language-learning do not concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
| 29 | We are well aware , however , that the results of this study do not form a basis for firm conclusions about the pathophysiology of specific clinical disorders . |
| 30 | Our two main fields of study do not fulfil the methodology equally well . |