Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean she is no longer a housewife . |
| 2 | But the addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Freddie 's talents did not lie in that direction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The weakest form occurs when state officials act on their own preferences in situations where society 's preferences do not diverge from theirs . |
| 10 | But the bay 's defenders do n't want to wait until their estuary is a disaster before they act . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the victories of the court 's opponents did not endure for long . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | D'Arcy 's eyes did n't move from the girl . |
| 20 | The numbers changed quickly and Kiah 's eyes did n't move . |
| 21 | You could n't … 'Woodruffe struck a light , but Lambert 's eyes did n't see it , and the flame burned itself out . |
| 22 | The mercenary leader 's eyes did not leave Ratagan 's . |
| 23 | The man 's eyes did not open , but Bodie leaned back and watched the activity of the fingers . |
| 24 | But Leon Kennedy 's eyes did not hold humiliation , only the assembling of a special hatred . |
| 25 | In the busy , noisy restaurant men 's eyes did not follow Tildy . |
| 26 | In the busy , noisy restaurant men 's eyes did not follow Tildy . |
| 27 | The man 's eyes did not blink . |
| 28 | Dr Evans had made several visits as well , and was able to report that the damage to Faye 's eyes did not seem to be worsening . |
| 29 | The blind man 's eyes did not let you into his mind ; they were the eyes of a doll or a toy animal . |
| 30 | Will 's sister Joan was married and had a little boy , but Will 's brothers did n't have any children . |