Example sentences of "[noun pl] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 What the layman is supposed to do the authors do not wish to contemplate . ’
2 Such words do not exist in Russian .
3 However words do not combine arbitrarily to form phrases and sentences , so higher level constraints can be applied to reduce the remaining ambiguity .
4 Good words do not last long until they amount to something …
5 The popular notion that words do not hurt you is by no means endorsed among women survivors of male violence .
6 He emphasizes that words do not depend on reality for their meaning .
7 The Court of Appeal in that case thought that the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences depended on the presence in the Larceny Act of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ and , as these words do not appear in the definition of theft , the distinction is gone ; all cases of obtaining by deception , contrary to section 15 , are also theft .
8 Sometimes , with the best of intentions , the words do not come out quite right .
9 It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ .
10 Which of these words do not describe the character of the music ?
11 Which of these words do not describe the character of the music .
12 The first and perhaps most important point is that these words do not attribute property directly either to the trustee ( B ) or to the beneficiary ( C ) .
13 The fateful words do not establish a trust in favour of him , but instead a trust at his expense in favour of another person .
14 These words do not have an absolute meaning , since it varies according to context .
15 There are two reasons for this : ( a ) the correct words do not have a proven semantic relationship ( unlike the semantic pairs ) , and ( b ) the control words are not artificially selected but instead are random orthographic derivations of the correct words and therefore not necessarily unrelated .
16 Bible words do not have magical powers in themselves , but because all words express ideas , and ideas lie behind action , the word of God is a mighty weapon to influence men 's convictions and conduct .
17 The grapheme is the dominant unit ( since , although most — ead words do not have ‘ ee ’ pronunciation , a large majority of the subjects gave this pronunciation ) but not the only one .
18 A well-designed communication structure can do much to minimize this by recognizing the fact that words do not have specific meanings until they are defined for a particular purpose .
19 Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly
20 When we have a hunch that somebody is telling lies , for instance , ‘ what we really mean is that their body language and their spoken words do not agree . ’
21 The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to .
22 His words did not make sense at all .
23 For once the preciseness of the words did not irritate Aggie , and she answered gently , ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but … but she 's had to go away for a day or two . ’
24 A random sample of new words did not go down well with passersby .
25 As for the Government 's style , Mr Heseltine suggested that much of its tough ‘ rhetoric ’ was empty , because the hostile words did not match the actions .
26 But the words did not match the actions .
27 Her soft words did not get a soft reply .
28 Although Maidstone was now beginning to display the fact that he was far from sober — his walk was a little unsteady and one or two of his words did not come out exactly right — the visit to the hatshop passed off without any untoward incident .
29 Even so , words did not come easily to either of us ; for the first time we both realized how very little we knew about each other .
30 When it was first recognised that the atom could be likened to a small solar system in which the electron planets orbited a nuclear sun , theorists were Puzzled as to why the electrons in their tightly curved orbits did not radiate their energy away and spiral into the nucleus as predicted by classical , that is pre-quantum , theory .
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