Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future . |
| 2 | The income of the vicarage was an average £8 a year , and Carswalle 's successor , who presumably did not enjoy private means , got the more or less average assessment of £6 13s 4d . |
| 3 | This is odd as over 85 per cent of Saabs , including Carlssons , are sold to business users , who presumably do not hang around outside nightclubs in the evening . |
| 4 | He had vague memories of a brother who apparently did not exist any more . |
| 5 | The crowds of buyers , who apparently did not share their view , were moving out now to the lawn where the sale was due to begin in a large marquee . |
| 6 | Later on the Paignton to Kingswear branch was closed by BR and was bought up by Dart Valley who obviously did not wish to find another competing railway only 10 miles away . |
| 7 | These were very disturbed patients who perhaps do not fit into the group under discussion here . |
| 8 | Of particular interest to Society members even those far afield who perhaps do not know B.C. very well , if at all , is the way it illustrates the influence the Railway had on the community at that time . |
| 9 | This sort of response can cause a lot of confusion for those around who perhaps do not share the same feeling . |
| 10 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 11 | He was lonely and longing for someone who perhaps did not exist . |
| 12 | The debate has moved on and new elements have crept in which make devolution attractive to many people who perhaps did not feel so strongly about it or were even hostile to it in earlier days . |
| 13 | Every therapist/healer , orthodox or otherwise , has come across the person who just does not get better — despite doing everything ‘ right ’ . |
| 14 | I have a number of staff who just do not see , that all of this is generated by them . |
| 15 | In addition , there are some excellent hypnotherapists who just do not have the right personality to work in the field of past-life regression — and , of course , there are others who simply do not wish to . |
| 16 | So now , she thought , I am married to a man whose touch disgusts me , and who anyway does not seem to want to touch me . |
| 17 | In the SMIEP Project , classes were held in community halls and local homes and the resources were in the main provided by the James Watt College , illustrating once again that if an educational institution is prepared to venture out into the community , meet people on equal terms and offer its resources , then adult education can attract people who normally do not attend its classes or courses . |
| 18 | Alexander looked at Wilkie who deliberately did not see him . |
| 19 | At first it was felt that this was caused by their failure to understand what was required of them despite being notified by the Board , the NEC , through the pages of The Embalmer as well as at Divisional meetings , but it is apparent that there is an element of tutors who deliberately do not follow the guidelines and rules , ignore well publicised and individually notified closing dates for entry and submission of coursework results , presumably to try and ‘ force ’ the Institute to return to the ‘ old ’ system . |
| 20 | Those of you who still do not know the difference , I hope will one day find out the good news , and meet the girl of their dreams . |
| 21 | I imagine that the brunt of this will be borne by younger voters , many of them voting for the first time , who possibly do not realise that in addition to voting they must also pay poll tax . |
| 22 | There are still British Steel pensioners from the old scheme who genuinely do not know that there exists a new scheme . |
| 23 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 24 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 25 | A pair of spectacles and 40s. worth of books set the late ( graduate ) vicar of Whitchurch somewhat apart from his parishioners , who probably did not appreciate his erudition , yet his private collection was certain to be innocent of both profound and frivolous titles , limited to practical works such as collections of sermons , primers of divinity and apologetics , plus , naturally , his Breviary , perhaps too a copy of the Vulgate , or Latin scriptures . |
| 26 | TWO academics , who clearly did not do much of their research in the North-East , have written a book called Bad Language . |
| 27 | Yet there were others who clearly did not relish James 's rule , having actively opposed him when King , and who did their best to distance themselves from the Jacobite cause after the Revolution , Archbishop Sancroft being the most famous example . |
| 28 | Indeed , the boom in architecture and property development was so great precisely because nothing whatever diverted the flow of capital from what The Builder in 1848 called ‘ one half of the world … on the lookout for investment ’ to ‘ the other half continually in search of eligible family residences ’ into serving the urban poor , who clearly did not belong in the world at all . |
| 29 | The development corporation is a creature of the Conservative Government , who clearly do not trust democracy in operation in Wales . |
| 30 | This is a usually unconscious , and therefore very powerful , negative collusion between teaching centres who are anxious to fill places ( there have been instances of courses to train interpreters to below A level standard lasting six weeks ) , service providers who really do not understand the level and type of skills required and have no strategies to locate them and unqualified interpreters who feel their jobs are threatened . |