Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Despite initial SPD threats to block ratification , SPD leaders said on March 9 that their desire for improvements did not preclude approval of the treaty .
2 Yeah well they 're safety things for kids do n't like that Like this one though .
3 The state bank which provides the cash for roadworks does not pay out money until a project or part of it , is completed .
4 It does not , of course , follow that the radiation and extinction of the monophyletic units known as clades do not have deterministic explanations .
5 Now if we consult this record , and remember the success , in giving it its modern form , of a gallery of reformers of roughly utilitarian hue from Tom Paine , Bentham , J.S. Mill , and Tolstoy , to Bernard Shaw , Sidney and Beatrice Webb , and Evelyn Strachey , we might wonder why its provisions for animals do not embody more closely the ideals of that theory .
6 This had been proposed in an earlier draft which was condemned by journalists as seeking to introduce " curbs … such as journalists did not experience even in the days when the CPSU was all-powerful " .
7 The people looking after chickens do not identify with individual chickens and , as has been said already , very large numbers of animals should not be being looked after by very small numbers of people who have no incentive to treat them as individuals .
8 These data for countries do not reveal considerable underlying differences within countries .
9 Those who afterwards blamed Lambeth 1958 for platitudes did not know what they were talking about .
10 There were comparatively few incomers and they were dispersed among the native population ( estate building for incomers did not peak until 1976 , and none existed before 1974 ) .
11 However , the death or incapacity of experts does not seem to have presented any problem in practice , and in any event the court would not allow a rent review to be frustrated by a breakdown in the machinery .
12 For instance , the considerable differences in the number of interactions ( compare , for example , the pseudonymous Claybourn and Greystock ) is partly a function of their length : a relatively tow number of interactions does not indicate prolonged periods of silence , and most teachers were interacting with children most of the time .
13 If a number of investments did n't go wrong we would n't be taking sufficient risks .
14 The inquiry said the deferment of projects involving large capital expenditure , frequency of reorganisation within BR , and lack of control of projects did not stem from any individual 's decision , but ‘ from the way in which the railway has come to do things . ’
15 The plants lumped together under the umbrella name of herbs do not appear at first glance to be essential to maintain life , but it is now becoming apparent that this concept could be wrong , and that herbs are as necessary as oxygen , though the ingredients they contribute , such as minerals and vitamins , may only be found in minute quantities .
16 If exchange of contracts does not take place , then the seller will have to pay you .
17 Activation of granulocytes did not increase muscle relaxation ( mean relaxation by activated granulocytes 21.3 ( 10 ) % compared with 18.4 ( 6 ) % by non-activated cells ( n=12 pairs , p=0.7 ) ) .
18 Keeping the treatment entirely general we shall permit now the presence of a surface charge ( made up of free charges ; it is still true that the bound charges of dielectrics do not count ) , hence , when dh → 0 ,
19 In some ways it was good , though a lot of the older generation of vets did n't like it much .
20 ( Another small trap containing a small band of musicians did n't catch them up until they were on their way back ! )
21 Local authorities , English Heritage , and ministers and their advisors must be made aware that giving planning permission to build in the grounds of houses does not lead automatically to their restoration .
22 Even beyond the middle of the century , when Palladian architecture acquires some rivals , the description of houses does not become more frequent .
23 The vast majority of mammals and the vast majority of birds do n't use echolocation , and it is highly probable that their common ancestor did n't either ( nor did it fly — that is another technology that has been independently evolved several times ) .
24 The Code of Practice on picketing provides that organisers should ensure that ‘ the number of pickets does not exceed six at any entrance to a workplace ; frequently a smaller number will be appropriate ’ .
25 Ignored was the consideration that interrogators of prisoners do not come forward as witnesses against themselves before police boards or civil courts .
26 Those sorts of accounts do n't carry much in the way of other books . ’
27 Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do .
28 This mutual exclusiveness of subjects does not hold between tort and contract .
29 It is worth noting that a number of subjects did not answer the b question in terms of truth or falsehood of fact , but according to what the speaker , in asking the preceding question , had appeared to presuppose .
30 This is because in any sample of right handers it is usually found that a considerable proportion of subjects do not show the expected right ear superiority for verbal material .
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