Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electorate did not need to be a democratic one , and as a general rule was not ; all that was needed was an electorate consisting of the men of substance , so that the government would be responsive to their choices . |
| 2 | In 1973 the government ran a considerable campaign to instruct electors how to record their votes under the system of proportional representation , but it was thought that after the experience of two proportional representation elections in 1973 the electorate did not need to be more than reminded of what was required . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde is clear about the answer , but the rest of the Opposition do not agree with him . |
| 4 | An important aspect of the successful implementation of these parts of the constitution was that the political opposition did not object to them . |
| 5 | I thought I must be wrong , because kindness did n't go with what he was doing . |
| 6 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 7 | It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " . |
| 8 | They are not always on the best of terms with the carters with whom they have to deal , and threats of actual violence do not tend to the increase of business . |
| 9 | Crowd violence did not arrive with the football hooligans . |
| 10 | Participants at the Oct. 5 meeting agreed that the violence did not originate in tribal conflict between Xhosa and Zulu , as had been widely reported , but was " orchestrated by certain faceless forces " ( later named by Mandela as state security organs , specifically the National Intelligence Service and the Civil Co-operation Bureau ) . |
| 11 | She did not discover a numinous cloud of ignorance or an impenetrable darkness between herself and God ; her apprehension of the divine did not end in silence , but in an eloquent message for her contemporaries . |
| 12 | We are never engaged in their lives ; we do not believe in them , and as a result do not care about them . |
| 13 | The placing of the concept of the Created God entirely in that period of the earth 's history which follows the advent of life , means that science and religion do not need to be at variance . |
| 14 | The boat did n't come at any scheduled time . |
| 15 | She was still shivering and her head felt muzzy , but now she was lying down the boat did n't seem to be doing quite so much heaving and rolling . |
| 16 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
| 17 | Although Massachusetts , like many states , had a statute which absolved parents who treated their children by spiritual healing from charges of abuse or neglect , the prosecution successfully argued that the statute did not apply in cases where death or serious injury resulted from such action . |
| 18 | Ventricular fibrillation following the first thrombolytic agent did not occur in any of the 26 patients , but occurred in 2 after the rt-PA while in hospital . |
| 19 | And the North-East did not escape from these tower block communities which were supposed to answer all our housing problems . |
| 20 | Here D 's revocation did not come to the notice of the offeree , so the offeree 's acceptance of the offer was valid , and D is liable on the contract . ’ |
| 21 | 30 years later , Constanze 's husband Georg Nissen published another biography , based on his wife 's recollections ; but the first scholarly biography did not appear until the centenary of his birth . |
| 22 | and ask for any help in doing his car do n't go to work or can he borrow this , just say no I 'm sorry you could n't help us and I 'm your sister so now I ca n't |
| 23 | He was relieved somewhat by the fact that the horse did not balk at approaching the house . |
| 24 | The preoperative radiotherapy did not result in a significant prolongation of survival time . |
| 25 | Wallace 's angled runs were badly missed : - the Whelan/Deane partnership did not work at the beginning of the season and never looked like it last night . |
| 26 | The snow did not return until early in February : this time , the Oaks were well prepared . |
| 27 | The study did not spring into being overnight of course , and for over a decade a number of community groups throughout Appalachia have tried to combat the worst excesses of a pattern of landownership which breeds power without responsibility . |
| 28 | But in terms of general premalignant changes , almost all the patients with chronic atrophic gastritis had intestinal metaplasia , and the mild dysplastic changes in random biopsy specimens in this study did not coincide with the observed cancers . |
| 29 | It is evident that this study did not differentiate between the intake of bulk laxatives and stimulatory laxatives of the anthranoid type . |
| 30 | This may also explain the finding that the AL and the AH cases in this study did not respond to any treatment and had a poor prognosis when they presented with severe intestinal obstruction . |