Example sentences of "they [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that how would they prefer not to work so hard |
| 2 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 3 | Between November 1981 and November 1983 , encouragement was given to unemployed men over the age of 60 to withdraw from the labour force by offering to pay them the long-term rate of supplementary benefit if they agreed not to register as unemployed . |
| 4 | So they tend not to thrive in dry centrally heated rooms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The airlines all know , of course , but they tend not to make it public for commercial reasons . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Partly common or garden jealousy , I think , and partly because they tend not to get involved in all the politics that goes on . ’ |
| 12 | Because generally speaking … when they get a bee in their bonnet , they tend not to write letters . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What they tend not to tell you is how well a given PC stacks up against others … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | erm Well the schools communicate , but they tend not to tell the parents the obvious things . |
| 17 | However , lack of cover leads to the birds feeling insecure so they tend not to stray too far from the hen house . |
| 18 | When adults get upset about someone 's behaviour , they tend not to confront the protagonist , but withdraw into themselves . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To crush their rivals , therefore , they sought not to limit the power of the Grand Prince but to gain influence over him by identifying themselves with the elevation of his personal authority . |
| 21 | At the local elections in May 1976 , the Conservatives won control of the council and on 7 June told the Secretary of State that they proposed not to implement the plans for the conversion of the five grammar schools into comprehensives and sixth-form colleges . |
| 22 | Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting . |
| 23 | They promised not to speak to their wives of what the fairy had said . |
| 24 | They tried not to breathe as they listened . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They hope not to have that problem this year when the World Championships are in Santiago in Chile . |
| 27 | Then , when they seemed not to hear him , he repeated it , stronger this time , commanding them . |
| 28 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 29 | They they change everything over do n't they , they they do n't do this and they do n't do that . |
| 30 | You see they do n't want finicky stuff , they want er a large pay packet fo , er stamping er envelopes . |