Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably that does not apply here . |
| 2 | Luckily this did not take place . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps that does not amuse me either , ’ he said quietly , slanting a dark glance at her . |
| 4 | At first Grainne thought it was that power was stealing over them , and then she thought that it was not power but strength , only that did not seem quite right either . |
| 5 | Some of the patients samples showed extremely high sICAM-1 concentrations with up to 1.700 ng/ml while only few did not differ from the control group . |
| 6 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 7 | Obviously this does not signify that we have resolved our specific problem of " being women " nor that militancy can be the panacea which allows us to find our own identity . |
| 8 | Obviously this did not happen according to plan . |
| 9 | So this does not appear as a technical difference . |
| 10 | One suggestion is that early on in metazoan evolution there were a number of experimental designs which were not to give rise to direct descendants ; naturally these do not fit into the pigeon holes based on living animals . |
| 11 | Michelin road-maps mark genuinely arduous or dangerous stretches of road with a broken red line , and though the roadways themselves quite often turn out to be less awkward than you expect from such warnings , less awkward does not mean altogether easy . |
| 12 | But it seems sad that so many did not have a more enjoyable sexual introduction , especially when for a few it had been the one and only time . |
| 13 | They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student . |
| 14 | ‘ He is wealthy and he does n't eat better than us and his father works in his garden ’ was a comment tinged with admiration , but dominated nonetheless by the thought that a man so obsessed did not lead the full life . |
| 15 | The fact that he seemed a little simple did not escape their notice but they felt such affection for him that no one ever teased him . |
| 16 | Nevertheless this does not show that " Shakespeare " is a purely referential symbol devoid of all descriptive content , only that there is a certain difference in scope as between " Shakespeare " and " the author of Macbeth " ; with " Shakespeare " , in the final analysis , unfolding into a complex series of descriptions that uniquely characterise the individual concerned . |
| 17 | Contrary to some popular images , normally this does not seem to be reversed in a significant way during the last years of life of the older generation , except perhaps where a person receives substantial personal care , but is not in a position to repay it through bequests after their death . |
| 18 | Numerous Soviet proposals for regional disarmament or nuclear-free zones were advanced in the late 1950s and 1960s , although generally these did not envisage the formal neutralisation of the regions concerned . |
| 19 | He was so cool now , so calm , and the fact that she was feeling utterly wretched did not bother him a bit . |
| 20 | Simple renal cysts were defined as one or a few cysts of 0.2 cm in diameter or more that did not result from adult polycystic disease , medullary cystic disease , or pyelogenic cysts . |
| 21 | From the foregoing comes one of the basic facts of modern economic society : the poor in our economy are needed to do the work that the more fortunate do not do and would find manifestly distasteful , even distressing . |
| 22 | A spokesman told us : ’ The new procedure is designed to ensure that people who are genuinely ill do not face dismissal . ’ |
| 23 | Suppose a girl under 16 does not wish her parents to know that she is seeking contraceptive advice : the medical profession is divided between those who give priority to partial consent , and others who , in line with the General Medical Council , hold that the principle of professional confidentiality overrides that of parental consent . |
| 24 | One last shattering figure is that 700 million adults can not read or write and 250 million children under 14 do not attend school . |
| 25 | Art criticism at its most helpful does not stint the reader of any one of these elements . |
| 26 | For protection against bad debts , less than half the firms in the survey operated the sales ledger on secured terms and nearly two-thirds did not use credit insurance . |
| 27 | If the question is reasonably clear do not wander outside it . |
| 28 | Establishing that something is clearly wrong does not require going through the underlying reasoning . |
| 29 | Of the 14 surviving patients in this report , all had required support with intravenous infusions of cardiac drugs before transplantation , and , in addition , some had developed secondary renal and hepatic dysfunction ; clearly this does not seem to mitigate against a successful outcome to transplantation . |
| 30 | Clearly all did not agree with the way the matter was handled . |