Example sentences of "[adj] who do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , it was Rousseau 's conviction that no one could be truly free who did not govern him/herself , and that therefore only some kind of direct democracy provided the framework within which government and freedom could be reconciled . |
| 2 | Nor should we expect the very few who do not want to teach to continue to do so when they might be more usefully employed in management , audit , service , or research tasks . |
| 3 | ‘ The vast majority of dog owners are responsible , but it is those few who do not take the necessary responsibility for their dogs that can cause very real problems for everyone . |
| 4 | But there are also a few who do not behave properly in their dealings with the public . |
| 5 | Burger smiled : ‘ But there will be very few who do not know if it is left to you , dear . |
| 6 | Writing to Poole in April 1799 , when the Cruikshanks had gone , he remarked that ‘ excepting yourself & Mother there is no human being attached to us & few who do not dislike us ’ . |
| 7 | And more to die before the firing squad , and few who did not wear the gold rings of the officers to escape the penalty of imprisonment . |
| 8 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 9 | There are probably still some children who are never allowed to see the genitals of the opposite sex as small children , but Freud found , even among upper-class children , that there were few who did not manage a way to see the genitals of the opposite sex before they were five or six years old . |
| 10 | But , as a two-time General Election loser — and a perceived drag on his own party 's prospects — there were few who did not concede that his career at the top of British politics was at an end . |
| 11 | There were wan smiles on the faces of some who did not think it was possible . |
| 12 | Perhaps there are even some who do not realize we have a magazine , and all those who do know and have supported it in the past , do you really want the magazine to die and be no more ? |
| 13 | ‘ as a trespasser ’ Means an intentional entry , whether reckless or negligent , into a building which is in possession of another who does not consent to the entry . |
| 14 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 15 | Of the remaining 7 who did not have repeat coronary arteriography there was acute resolution of the ST segment elevation in 4 . |
| 16 | William Whitelaw believes , however , that there were no abstainers : the six who did not vote were either too far away to present themselves at Westminster , or they were ill . |
| 17 | I do not mean decent Conservative values like the Citizen 's Charter or dreaming of the classless city ; I mean authentic Conservative values , like a social hierarchy in which power follows the rich who do not have to answer for their acts to hoi polloi , in which we do not have to feel responsible for anyone 's poverty or ill health , in which we do not have to ask questions about where the rich get their money from , and we can carve up the land to create a sort of apartheid state : each tribe to its own homeland . |
| 18 | A home-owning pensioner over 75 who does not qualify for income support gets a mere 50p a week extra rate . |
| 19 | One hundred and sixty Old Boys a very substantial proportion had volunteered before conscription was introduced , and many more thereafter , and the names of the fifty-two who did not return were to be recorded on the School 's War Memorial . |
| 20 | Many homes , in Great Britain at least ( and perhaps this is more true of the private sector ) , still offer no privacy for the elderly who do not have their own rooms , who have no locks on the lavatories and who have to suffer the indignity of being bathed and examined by a non-qualified member of staff of the opposite sex . |
| 21 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 22 | Their remain a minority of Catholic children aged 5–16 and a majority aged 16–19 who do not attend Catholic schools . |
| 23 | For unlike fundamentalism which , draws its strength from the claim to universal truth , theoretically applicable to all , nationalism by definition excludes from its purview all who do not belong to its own ‘ nation ’ , ie , the vast majority of the human race . |
| 24 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 25 | Many who did not object to this in principle disliked the high-handed way it was adopted . |
| 26 | Naturally there are many who do not share that view , with its obvious potential for the abuse of market domination and disregard for local or regional needs . |
| 27 | Many of those who did not marry chose to live together instead . |
| 28 | For those who did not marry or emigrate , the war might bring change of a different kind . |
| 29 | Not everyone was patriote , and when it was finished and the enemy had left our soil , there were those who did not speak the truth about what happened . ’ |
| 30 | His election campaigns were notorious for their cruelty — he often made sure that those who did not vote for him would never vote again — but the depth of his involvement has never been clear . |