Example sentences of "[n mass] do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked if they would lose respect for a woman who was prepared to sleep with them on a first date , 24% neither agree nor disagree ; 18% strongly disagree ; 17% tend to disagree ; 16% tend to agree ; 15% strongly agree and 10% do n't know . |
| 2 | The gaps in our data do not make it possible to say anything of statistical value , merely to point out that the evidence fragmentarily available suggests that it was by no means exceptional for women to be sole breadwinner in a household , usually in three precise sets of circumstances : in widowhood , with or without children ; after marriage when the husband was away , unemployed or chronically sick ; when unmarried , either living alone or — more frequently in our sample at any rate — caring for and responsible for an elderly parent or sick sibling . |
| 3 | It should also be noted that Young and Willmott 's data do not record the number of contacts with each relative , only the number of relatives contacted . |
| 4 | These data do not give the ship 's full performance but are experimental results collected under a variety of real operating conditions . |
| 5 | But these data do not give an accurate account of the overall effect of their change , for an additional 380,000 standard housing benefit recipients would have had an income above their entitlement level . |
| 6 | The amytal data do not appear helpful in this context . |
| 7 | So far , however , this link does not seem to apply to the mitochondrial genome and available data do not suggest that green algal and plant mtDNAs share a common ancestor . |
| 8 | Median and interquartile ( 25th to 75th centiles ) range ( IQR ) values are given for each group , since the data do not conform to a Gaussian distribution . |
| 9 | The data do not prove that the operation precedes the bowel dysfunction , and it is possible that women who are troubled by the symptoms of constipation are more likely to report gynaecological symptoms to their general practitioners . |
| 10 | What Sinclair is saying is that type descriptions of language knowledge based on intuitive impression and not grounded in actually attested data do not provide an adequate source of reference for language teaching . |
| 11 | Here we show that , in the absence of strong historical evidence , field data do not support the existence of variations in the duration of sympatry at the two areas where the distributional ranges of the cuckoo and its hosts overlap . |
| 12 | The data do not support the idea that remanent magnetization was acquired during a post-extension thermal or low-temperature chemical event at shallow crustal levels . |
| 13 | However , data do not support this hypothesis . |
| 14 | We did not find an association between smoking and the grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , and so our data do not support the hypothesis that cigarette smoke has a direct mutagenic effect on the cervical epithelium . |
| 15 | Our data do not support the idea that the xanthine/ xanthine oxidase pathway plays a part in ulcerative colitis as allopurinol , in concentrations known to inhibit xanthine oxidase activity , did not affect chemiluminescence . |
| 16 | The foregoing data do not support the notion that psychopathology causes IBS . |
| 17 | If the commercial benefits to Visa of retaining the data do not outweigh the costs of their retention then there can be little hope that such data will be accessible to historians in the future . |
| 18 | There seemed no doubt that the helium came from deep in the Earth but ‘ at this time the data do not indicate the cause … |
| 19 | However , even if the ascribed causes of death are correct , these data do not indicate those patients who are potential transplant candidates . |
| 20 | Our data do not allow us determine whether HBIG is deneficial in preventing or ameliorating recurrent HBV . |
| 21 | Combat is competitive , with the opposing planes appearing to have more ‘ Artificial Intelligence ’ than normal — eg using counter measures against your missiles etc , but again these aircraft do not seem to have their own ‘ character ’ . |
| 22 | Once the eggs have hatched all surplus rockwork can be removed , to ensure that fry do not get trapped under it . |
| 23 | 11% do n't know whether he has or not , and 4% do n't want to know . |
| 24 | ’ And although the old folk do not sit around the fire any more telling stories as they once did — many of the yarns told by Mr Murray 's own father have found their way into his poetry — there are always the excitements and discoveries of the present by way of compensation . |
| 25 | ‘ None of my business , mind , but with your mam gone folk do n't think it proper . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't let anyone ever tell you that fat folk do n't feel the cold just as much as you skinny ones . |
| 27 | ‘ Folk do n't know where they are with you . |
| 28 | There is a suggestion that offspring do not have an even chance of inheriting a trait from either parent . |
| 29 | According to a survey by recruitment consultants Challoner James , 40% of employers reduced their accountancy staff during 1992 and 71% do not anticipate recruiting any new staff before June . |
| 30 | Well our research has shown that something like eighty percent of all small business 's do n't undertake any formal training within their first three years of operation and more than sixty percent do not do any formal business planning or look further ahead than one month from today . |