Example sentences of "they [vb base] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they tend not to thrive in dry centrally heated rooms . |
| 2 | Repetition is something many students avoid at all costs , and in their early music they tend not to repeat a single bar in an entire composition . |
| 3 | Although they receive notification from education of the intention to assess a child , they are uncertain of their role , and so , with other pressing priorities , they tend not to give it high priority . |
| 4 | They tend not to explore what difference it makes who takes part in the public-policy process , or else they assume that the beneficiaries of public policy can simply be " read-off " from information about group participation because of uncomplicated assumptions about all groups being able to participate in order to advance their own interest . |
| 5 | ‘ The airlines all know , of course , but they tend not to make it public for commercial reasons . ’ |
| 6 | Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories ! |
| 7 | And , because they are designed to operate at a lower cost level they tend not to make demands for expensive peripherals such as PostScript devices or even simpler page printers such as Epsons and Okis that emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet . |
| 8 | ‘ Partly common or garden jealousy , I think , and partly because they tend not to get involved in all the politics that goes on . ’ |
| 9 | Because generally speaking … when they get a bee in their bonnet , they tend not to write letters . |
| 10 | Firstly , they tend not to originate from a real typographic font but are often variations on an original while , secondly , being bitmaps they can not be scaled . |
| 11 | What they tend not to tell you is how well a given PC stacks up against others … |
| 12 | No , but , even , even some of those erm the only thing is they tend to get work and they tend not to tell you they 've done it . |
| 13 | erm Well the schools communicate , but they tend not to tell the parents the obvious things . |
| 14 | However , lack of cover leads to the birds feeling insecure so they tend not to stray too far from the hen house . |
| 15 | When adults get upset about someone 's behaviour , they tend not to confront the protagonist , but withdraw into themselves . |
| 16 | Furthermore , they tend not to maintain a clear distinction between the speaker 's intended meaning on the one hand , and the message used to convey that meaning to a listener on the other . |
| 17 | and they say not to eat apples and oranges , er , at one time they told you to eat the lot did n't they apples a day keep the doctor 's away . |
| 18 | They hope not to have that problem this year when the World Championships are in Santiago in Chile . |
| 19 | And some wene they close and conteyne the worlde in theyr hondes … and therefore they put not theyr hondes to take mete … ’ paranoid patients ‘ fall in to full euyll suspiccions without recouer and therfore they hate and blame theyr frendes , and sometyme smite and slee theim ’ . |
| 20 | They din not allow the Spurs defenders so much time on the ball . |
| 21 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 22 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 23 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 24 | Suleyman 's own medreses , built round his mosque in Istanbul and completed by 966/1559 , were to form the top rungs in the fully elaborated hierarchy of medreses , though they seem not to have achieved exclusive claim to this pre-eminence immediately . |
| 25 | Under these new European trade regulations , they seem not to tell where the things originate . |
| 26 | Many immigrant starlings pass through Shetland , particularly during the autumn migration period , but they seem not to mix with our birds — probably they do n't even speak the same language ! |
| 27 | And they Know not to strike . |
| 28 | Well , given the opposition in the last few matches they ve not done too bad . |
| 29 | If what they do day in and day out is ignored or not valued , they feel not valued . |
| 30 | You know , this way erm , if it 's on the agenda as to who 's bringing what , you can kneecap people erm , if they decide not to bring it , or if they , if they do n't bring it . |