Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some parents or relatives do n't think it 's important to get their friend or relative registered . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Compliance with one set of rules or standards does not ensure compliance with the other . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On receiving notice from the buyer that the tender or documents do not comply , LCH may promptly notify the selling member to similar effect . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | The gift of becoming sons or daughters does not come through our being born , but through our being born again . |
| 16 | There is a complex interrelation of both systems and we can again distinguish different countries in which this dual function of law plays a greater or lesser role : the UK for example , without a written constitution , without a constitutional court , without a long tradition of legal science but with a multitude of extra-legal institutions and ideologies does not rely on legal ideology to the same extent as other countries , for example , West Germany and the USA . |
| 17 | ‘ And birds do n't feel like flying , ’ Candy snorted inelegantly . |
| 18 | It also means knowing a bit about ourselves , so that old habits , opinions and attitudes do n't get in the way . |
| 19 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 20 | They are people dedicated to seeing that corporate goals and cultures do not deviate from the chosen path . |
| 21 | Atoms and molecules do not have consciousness : they do not have meanings and purposes which direct their behaviour . |
| 22 | Atoms and molecules do not act in terms of meanings , they simply react to external stimuli . |
| 23 | But I 'm old and secrets do n't seem so important any more . ’ |
| 24 | Self-assured enough to make decisions , clarify your goals and take risks , other people 's definitions , needs and opinions do not represent a threat to you . |
| 25 | But for pluralists the problem is that the need to ensure state expenditure on military hardware and personnel does not stop with these giant corporations . |
| 26 | But any apparent acceptance of the interim government by the United Nations and other international organisations and states does not suffice in the present case to demonstrate that the interim government is the Government of the Republic of Somalia . |
| 27 | The fact is that there are so many things which interest children now , and comics do n't have the place they once did . |
| 28 | The seasonal workers and outworkers do not receive the security or the minimal benefits that are available to regular workers . |
| 29 | It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work . |
| 30 | The original seven dwellings to the acre had been raised in Britain to around seventeen , at which density ‘ culs-de-sac and walkways , cars and garages did not merge into the landscape so happily . ' ’ |