Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , even after the invention of coinage , many areas or cities did not use it . |
| 2 | For teachers who feel more comfortable with one-to-one meetings than with groups , various kinds of counselling can be sought , and again it may be possible to organize this so that unsympathetic colleagues or superiors do not find out . |
| 3 | The islanders in their shorts or sarongs did n't look ‘ professional ’ . |
| 4 | Overshot or undershot ( where incisors do not touch or mesh ) ; markedly wry mouth ; 2 or more missing teeth ; long coat ; any base colour other than black ; absence of all markings . |
| 5 | This is not persuasive where directors do not pay their own premiums , however , and in any case the difficulties faced by insurers in distinguishing high risk from low risk directors ( i.e. performing the monitoring function ) are considerable , given the low visibility of the management decision-making process and the wide range of functions that a director may be called upon to perform . |
| 6 | The more advanced monkeys or apes do not have any kind of protective armour and use brain rather than brawn to solve their problems , but the slow-moving little relative of the bushbabies known as Bosman 's potto does have a secret defence rather like the hero shrew 's . |
| 7 | Thus a democratic bias is introduced which may be inappropriate where individuals do not count equally . |
| 8 | The normal rules apply where applications do not have this effect although there may be a good argument for transferring such cases up to the High Court . |
| 9 | Some parents or relatives do n't think it 's important to get their friend or relative registered . |
| 10 | This could be because exposure to the hazardous substance or substances did not occur in those populations or that being monitored for exposure to external radiation was not a marker of the relevant exposure . |
| 11 | But Carolyn , backed up by Phil Morris , hammered away at the point that furnishing fabrics were not like clothes , where customers did not expect to come back for more of the same . |
| 12 | The Small Companies Rate applies where profits do not exceed £250,000 with marginal relief up to profits of £1,250,000 . |
| 13 | As the Polish authorities learnt in the 1970s , and the Soviet ones recently in Georgia , shooting strikers or demonstrators does not deter a mass movement but merely infuriates it and provides it with martyrs . |
| 14 | We would be inclined to use the first , because it gives a better sense of the feel of the anthology ; but this is a fairly arbitrary decision , where rule-books do not help . |
| 15 | I think candidates somehow have got to assume that the admissions tutors or selectors do n't think the candidate wants to do the course . |
| 16 | Many of the other forms of sexual assault on males or females do not take the form of sexual intercourse as defined in the offences of rape and buggery , and English law classifies these as indecent assaults . |
| 17 | Other anecdotal evidence from pupils suggests that whether and how they use relevant knowledge might be dependent on their familiarity with the operations involved ; for example , several instances were observed where pupils did not use their knowledge of available lengths to estimate an unknown length . |
| 18 | Compliance with one set of rules or standards does not ensure compliance with the other . |
| 19 | Where children do not carry these assumptions inside them , it is because they have been brought up in an enclave that is struggling against the weight of secular pressure . |
| 20 | Indigenous British women affected by post-natal depression are often single mothers or those whose husbands or boyfriends do n't give them the care and affection or help they need in this new stage of their life . |
| 21 | On receiving notice from the buyer that the tender or documents do not comply , LCH may promptly notify the selling member to similar effect . |
| 22 | Many four or five-year-olds do n't like using the school loo because it 's often dirty , allows no privacy and frequently runs out of loo paper . |
| 23 | Where others do n't bother . |
| 24 | These were both common complaints : that other girls or boys did not have the nerve to ask you to your face if you were pregnant or not , and that " you find out who your real friends are " . |
| 25 | The gift of becoming sons or daughters does not come through our being born , but through our being born again . |
| 26 | He also admitted that resellers did not know enough about Uniplex products . |
| 27 | It always seems odd , looking back on a turning-point in life , that bells did not ring and warning hooters go . |
| 28 | Moreover , they have no hesitation in stressing the point that builders do not operate or think in terms familiar to planners ; instead they look to ‘ market signals ’ . |
| 29 | But after initiation into an exhilarating world of sex , drugs and high-stakes risk , Michael finds that rewards do n't come cheap and Alex is a difficult friend to lose . |
| 30 | That conclusion arose from a mathematical fact ( that operators did not commute ) , via rather abstract arguments involving the idea that the eigenstates of hermitean operators are the state vectors corresponding to the precise measurement of the observables the operators represent . |