Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , later transformations tend not to interfere with or undo the effects of earlier ones in the generation of a surface from a deep structure . |
| 2 | Being uncomplicated , the riders tend not to take much notice of it and in their minds , they have already finished . |
| 3 | The reasons for failure in these projects tend not to lie in the technical side , though the technology is complex , nor in the economic side , though the cost of these systems is very high . |
| 4 | With respect to strategy Japanese enterprise groups tend not to adopt the conglomerate model which is more common to large firms in the United States or Britain as the locus of their strategic initiative , preferring instead the keiretsu form . |
| 5 | In any case , big birds tend not to bother cracking nuts , but swallow them to be pulverised with grit in their muscular gizzards . |
| 6 | Prisoners tend not to re-offend , family relationships are maintained , and above all , through education prisoners are provided with the opportunity of a different role in society . |
| 7 | Parties to commercial contracts tend not to terminate the contract even in cases of breach of condition , but will normally be happy to allow the other party to make good any breach . |
| 8 | Where God has spoken and spoken clearly , rationality comes into its own ; where God has not spoken , or for his own reasons has not spoken clearly , there is the area of mystery . |
| 9 | Choice between these competing theories of relationship among the Recent forms has not received consensus ( compare refs 23 , 24 to refs 21 , 22 , 25 ) . |
| 10 | They 're furious that a promised reduction in hours has n't happened , although health chiefs say they 're doing all they can . |
| 11 | The new phenomenon of a deficit on manufactured trade has not , however , created any crisis in the UK 's international position : even the decline in net exports of manufactures has not fulfilled the prediction implicit in the adage ‘ export or die ’ . |
| 12 | The abolition of those taxes has not done the average family any good , has it , or those at Lloyd 's ? |
| 13 | Pleas from the Prince of Wales for corporate help to rebuild the inner cities has not fallen on deaf ears . |
| 14 | The firmness of the houses has not changed ; a few may have become offices , or been sub-divided into what must surely be splendid apartments , but the depth of the society persists . |
| 15 | ‘ My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures . |
| 16 | The law of diminishing returns has not applied to food production in the countries which have undergone the industrial revolution , although there have been periodic crises , such as the Irish famine of 1845–6 , to remind us that Malthus was not completely wrong . |
| 17 | AMERICAN sports fans tend not to believe the evidence of their own eyes until they can be shown a corroborating statistic . |
| 18 | Such fans tend not to travel on the regular ‘ soccer special ’ bus coaches and trains , preferring to use scheduled public transport . |
| 19 | Apart from power concerns , consistency seems also to be an issue here , with designers preferring not to have to construct composite 5V and 3V boards . |
| 20 | Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks . |
| 21 | Modern finishes tend not to encourage the ‘ nicotine ’ yellowing of binding any more and the chronically nostalgic will no doubt miss it . |
| 22 | Both parties agreed not to make peace without the other 's consent . |
| 23 | Sadly , teaching of languages in schools has not kept pace with the relevant technological advances , but we find now that it is almost never necessary to recruit an individual specifically for linguistic skill . |
| 24 | Although in the case of the UK there have been substantial additions to the official reserves in recent years ( a consequence of foreign exchange market intervention , even though the UK has , technically , a floating or market-determined exchange rate ) this growth in the reserves has not matched the increase in capital flows . |
| 25 | The brothers pretended not to notice . |
| 26 | In his address to them the Holy Father stressed that the era of Missionaries has not ended . |
| 27 | The Office for Fine Arts has not made definite plans about the procedure to be followed but it is thought that those institutions which already have some of the works of art on loan will be allowed to keep them , while the museums will be able to choose from what is left . |
| 28 | However , the disappearance of organizational links between the press and parties has not affected the manner in which those linkages continue to be perceived . |
| 29 | What the layman is supposed to do the authors do not wish to contemplate . ’ |
| 30 | The popular songs of the day encapsulated perfectly its mood — patriotism , courage , facile optimism masking anxiety and heartache : ‘ Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer ’ ; ‘ There 'll Always be an England ’ ( even the Scots seemed not to mind this ! ) ; |