Example sentences of "some [noun sg] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some investment does not bear fruit . |
| 2 | It was reputed to be one of Europe 's most disordered cities , and there was scarcely a year in which some rioting did not take place . |
| 3 | There was seldom a meeting in which some speaker did not refer to the need for disestablishment and resolutions were passed in support of Welsh disestablishment , temperance and international arbitration , and against Tory bills on education . |
| 4 | If the baby 's fed on water or for some reason does not take food normally , you may not find the problem , but a few days after milk feed this substance will begin to rise and it can be protected so the diagnosis is made by a test , does anybody know how the Guffbry test is done ? |
| 5 | Council houses were built to fulfil a social need for those people who could not , or for some reason did not wish to buy a house , and for generations to come . |
| 6 | ‘ Charles Laubscher and I were on standby , ’ relates Gerald Bellamy , ‘ and for some reason did not hear the scramble . |
| 7 | But the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing does not seem to apply to the use we have been considering of the word ‘ here ’ . |
| 8 | However , the states of some matter do not fall conveniently into these categories . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , they all work basically by trying to fit the input into a set of stored templates , and if some input does not fit anything the machine has been given , it simply replies ‘ I do not understand . ’ |