Example sentences of "do [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 2 | EVERYONE is entitled to their opinion , and while I agree with Joe Hyam 's concerning service charges ( Caterer , 15–21 August ) , I feel he is taking unfair advantage of his position to have a go at people who do not do things the ‘ Joe Hyam ’ way . |
| 3 | He does not believe that Britain lacks for entrepreneurs , but he is concerned that many of them do not do their homework well enough . |
| 4 | Geometrical demonstrations which prove something to be true of all triangles do not do so by proving it to be true of an abstract triangle to which all triangles correspond . |
| 5 | Moses and Aaron bravely do not do as they are told , but this time they can not save the body of the people from disaster . |
| 6 | Do not do this . |
| 7 | If you do not do anything like this , but on the other hand you do walk a fair amount each day ( to the shops , to work , etc. ) record either the distance or the time spent in walking each day . |
| 8 | Do not do either of these things . |
| 9 | Great writers , I now realize , do not do such things : if they do , they condemn themselves as well as their invented characters . |
| 10 | They do not do anything that they are not entitled to do , and they usually do it reasonably conscientiously . |
| 11 | We 're helped to recognize what has happened through doing things that usually we do not do . |
| 12 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
| 13 | But they do not do so in the wild , so the species remain distinct . |
| 14 | The fact that there may be others in society who do not do so well need not even occur to the individual . |
| 15 | Future generations of composers will damn our spinelessness if we do not do something about this proposal , and they will be right . |
| 16 | You do not do me justice , my dallta , for what you do reflects on me also , and they laugh at me with you because you let a wee Campbell lassie put a petticoat on you ! ’ |
| 17 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
| 18 | The Kennel Club defend themselves against accusations that they do not do enough to curtail irresponsible breeding . |
| 19 | You do not do so in any other circumstance . |
| 20 | If you do not do so , you may be left in some doubt as to when a constructive dismissal occurs . |
| 21 | If he/she fails to comply promptly , say , ‘ If you do not do as I asked you immediately you will have to sit on the chair in the hall . ’ |
| 22 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 23 | These monks and nuns do not do this for their own good . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it has already been shown that the tawny owl produces higher levels of modification than other species ( Raczynski & Ruprecht , 1974 ; Lowe , 1980 ) , so that caution is needed before generalizing too far on what owls do or do not do . |
| 25 | I realised I had never ever shaken his hand before , MPs do not do that sort of thing . |
| 26 | In a letter to the Stanford committee on research , the faculty said : ‘ For years we have been able to tell visiting school children , student , engineers , scientists , laymen and the press that we are here to do basic research on the fundamental properties of matter and that we do not do any military work . |
| 27 | He seems to be saying that we should open ourselves up to this possibility , and that if we do not do so , we may miss something that may ultimately be much more important to us than all that science is able to capture in its net . |
| 28 | If you do not do this the muscles may become fixed in a shortened state , putting a strain on joints and various internal organs . |
| 29 | When skilled maintenance staff carry out actions , such as fault detection , testing , diagnosing and repair , they do not do so by solving sets of mathematical equations . |
| 30 | If , however , the leader says simply ‘ Do this ’ with no ‘ Simon says ’ , then the children do not do it . |