Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , as the investors are well aware , 11,000-plus enquiries does not mean that ATV is already a commercial success . |
| 2 | 720K 3.5inch floppies do not have the second hole in the casing . |
| 3 | Today er Darwinists do n't use the term fitness . |
| 4 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 5 | You know , critics er playwrights do n't like to be pinned down . |
| 6 | Said , pity her manners do n't blink er mannerisms do n't match her looks ! |
| 7 | The addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean she is no longer a housewife . |
| 8 | But the addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife . |
| 9 | It was subsequently noticed that the corresponding Corporation cars and the ex-Gravesend cars which ran on Brill 22E bogies did not suffer from so many derailments , even though the bogies of the latter were reversed . |
| 10 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 11 | Even if the bidder 's shareholders do not include ABI members , the bidder might consider providing an open offer and clawback to its shareholders as a matter of best practice and good shareholder relations , provided underwriters are agreeable . |
| 12 | He had meant to ask his research assistant to sketch something out for him on ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ or some such subject , but the silly girl 's talents did not encompass putting pen to paper . |
| 13 | Freddie 's talents did not lie in that direction . |
| 14 | The gentlemen 's titles did not appear on the hand-painted signs at the foot of the staircase ; in certain other Oxford colleges such practices were countenanced ; not , Mr Bullins thought proudly , in Magdalen , which , in his opinion , was not only the most beautiful college in Oxford but also the only one of any consequence . |
| 15 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
| 16 | The weakest form occurs when state officials act on their own preferences in situations where society 's preferences do not diverge from theirs . |
| 17 | But the bay 's defenders do n't want to wait until their estuary is a disaster before they act . |
| 18 | Childebert I and Chlothar I ensured that Chlodomer 's sons did not succeed their father , and they tried hard to exclude Theudebert I from the throne . |
| 19 | But the victories of the court 's opponents did not endure for long . |
| 20 | The Builder had an editorial on 19th February which contained extracts from a letter from Scott reasserting that his design was better lit , as convenient and no more expensive than a classical design , and it commented that Scott 's opponents did not understand that he was not intending to reproduce old forms rigidly and he was only willing to introduce ‘ the refinements and inventions of our own day ’ . |
| 21 | He also expressed confidence that US aid would be resumed " within a few months " , claiming that the suspension had been due to the disproportionate influence exercised in the US Congress by the extreme right-wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms , but that Helms 's views did not represent those of the administration . |
| 22 | If it is true that humankind is fallen , that we are separated from the presence of God by our failure and helplessness and are in need of God 's forgiveness , Abelard 's views do not reflect sufficiently well the seriousness of our predicament . |
| 23 | He addresses Dame Sirith imperiously , and with a French expression : But Dame Sirith 's final words remind us that this courtliness of expression is located in a fabliau in which the actions and attitudes are as commercial ( pris , mede ) and as crude , sexually , as in any French counterpart : These lines do not quite move into the register of marked language that we have seen in the French fabliaux and shall see in Chaucer 's English fabliaux except in so far as references to women 's thighs do not find a place in the conventional rhetorical portrayal of a courtly lady . |
| 24 | The mass of working people , as they liberate themselves from the bourgeois yoke , will gravitate irresistibly towards us … provided yesterday 's oppressions do not infringe the long oppressed nation 's highly developed democratic feeling of self-respect and provided they are granted equality in everything . |
| 25 | The most encouraging feature of the Election however , from Your Majesty 's point of view , is the strong impression that I have formed that Your Majesty 's subjects do not wish to allow themselves to be divided into warring classes or tribes filled with hereditary animosity against each other . |
| 26 | D'Arcy 's eyes did n't move from the girl . |
| 27 | The numbers changed quickly and Kiah 's eyes did n't move . |
| 28 | You could n't … 'Woodruffe struck a light , but Lambert 's eyes did n't see it , and the flame burned itself out . |
| 29 | The mercenary leader 's eyes did not leave Ratagan 's . |
| 30 | The man 's eyes did not open , but Bodie leaned back and watched the activity of the fingers . |