Example sentences of "of [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the death or incapacity of experts does not seem to have presented any problem in practice , and in any event the court would not allow a rent review to be frustrated by a breakdown in the machinery . |
| 2 | For instance , the considerable differences in the number of interactions ( compare , for example , the pseudonymous Claybourn and Greystock ) is partly a function of their length : a relatively tow number of interactions does not indicate prolonged periods of silence , and most teachers were interacting with children most of the time . |
| 3 | If a number of investments did n't go wrong we would n't be taking sufficient risks . |
| 4 | The inquiry said the deferment of projects involving large capital expenditure , frequency of reorganisation within BR , and lack of control of projects did not stem from any individual 's decision , but ‘ from the way in which the railway has come to do things . ’ |
| 5 | The plants lumped together under the umbrella name of herbs do not appear at first glance to be essential to maintain life , but it is now becoming apparent that this concept could be wrong , and that herbs are as necessary as oxygen , though the ingredients they contribute , such as minerals and vitamins , may only be found in minute quantities . |
| 6 | If exchange of contracts does not take place , then the seller will have to pay you . |
| 7 | Activation of granulocytes did not increase muscle relaxation ( mean relaxation by activated granulocytes 21.3 ( 10 ) % compared with 18.4 ( 6 ) % by non-activated cells ( n=12 pairs , p=0.7 ) ) . |
| 8 | Keeping the treatment entirely general we shall permit now the presence of a surface charge ( made up of free charges ; it is still true that the bound charges of dielectrics do not count ) , hence , when dh → 0 , |
| 9 | In some ways it was good , though a lot of the older generation of vets did n't like it much . |
| 10 | ( Another small trap containing a small band of musicians did n't catch them up until they were on their way back ! ) |
| 11 | Local authorities , English Heritage , and ministers and their advisors must be made aware that giving planning permission to build in the grounds of houses does not lead automatically to their restoration . |
| 12 | Even beyond the middle of the century , when Palladian architecture acquires some rivals , the description of houses does not become more frequent . |
| 13 | The vast majority of mammals and the vast majority of birds do n't use echolocation , and it is highly probable that their common ancestor did n't either ( nor did it fly — that is another technology that has been independently evolved several times ) . |
| 14 | The Code of Practice on picketing provides that organisers should ensure that ‘ the number of pickets does not exceed six at any entrance to a workplace ; frequently a smaller number will be appropriate ’ . |
| 15 | Ignored was the consideration that interrogators of prisoners do not come forward as witnesses against themselves before police boards or civil courts . |
| 16 | Those sorts of accounts do n't carry much in the way of other books . ’ |
| 17 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 18 | This mutual exclusiveness of subjects does not hold between tort and contract . |
| 19 | It is worth noting that a number of subjects did not answer the b question in terms of truth or falsehood of fact , but according to what the speaker , in asking the preceding question , had appeared to presuppose . |
| 20 | This is because in any sample of right handers it is usually found that a considerable proportion of subjects do not show the expected right ear superiority for verbal material . |
| 21 | Licence revenue has proved unreliable as the majority of listeners do not bother to purchase a licence , and radio stations have had to look elsewhere for funds . |
| 22 | I think one of the problems is , that a lot of shoppers do n't realize that they 're entering into a contract and we do n't realize it for the simple reason that most people have , as soon as you hear the word contract you have a mental image of a legal document that you sign , do n't you ? |
| 23 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 24 | Technical failures due to anaesthetic deaths , death due to haemorrhage during operation , or leakage from the stomach meant that a number of animals did not yield usable data . |
| 25 | Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 26 | ( The fact that the meanings of sentences are more accessible to intuition than the meanings of words does not alter this . ) |
| 27 | The sheer mass of words does not mean that research is inspiring . |
| 28 | For Saussure the meaning of words does not depend in any way on their relationship with things ; it is wholly determined by the arbitrary and conventional structure of language . |
| 29 | Where there is no trust beneficiary who has a beneficial interest in possession in the property , of course , some other way of fixing the rate has to be found ; and in the case of Gartside v IRC ( 1968 ) AC 553 the House of Lords has held that where there was a discretionary trust with a power to accumulate income , the interest of the group of beneficiaries did not constitute an ‘ interest in possession ’ for the purposes of estate duty . |
| 30 | The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself . |