Example sentences of "not do so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Age Concern wishes to see safeguards against abuse , exploitation and neglect of duty for those who can take decisions plus procedures for those who can not do so . |
| 2 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 3 | If he does not do so , Edwards will be able to sell his stake to the highest bidder . |
| 4 | President Christos Sartzetakis asked Mr Grivas to form a government after the main political parties would or could not do so . |
| 5 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 6 | He did not do so . |
| 7 | They did not do so . |
| 8 | The authorities plainly establish that he need not and can not do so . |
| 9 | But the chairman , Ewan Murray , said that he could not do so without permission from the AAA . |
| 10 | The Government was tempted to seek alternative partners in the Commonwealth and Europe , but did not do so because the Americans had so much more to offer if the MacMahon restrictions could be circumvented or ameliorated . |
| 11 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |
| 12 | Hobbes would be foolish to deny the pragmatic importance of the knowledge given by wide experience and history , and he certainly does not do so . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Again , where a contract provides , e.g. , that A shall pay £100 on 1 January next , and if he does not do so , shall pay £200 , Equity would not allow the £200 to be claimed , but treated it only as a security for the £100 with interest . |
| 15 | For the new generation , providence meant looking ahead in this progressive sense ; those who would not do so were classed as improvident . |
| 16 | They had no need to speak and they did not do so . |
| 17 | But I can not do so . |
| 18 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 19 | To Mary , reading that if she did not do so , ‘ this pre-eminence wherein ye are placed shall be your dejection to torment and pain everlasting ’ , it looked more like the kind of bullying to which , on his own account , he would later subject her daughter . |
| 20 | We group them into species merely as a convenience ; if we did not do so , we could not give them names : hence ‘ nominalism ’ . |
| 21 | But they do not do so in the wild , so the species remain distinct . |
| 22 | The fact that there may be others in society who do not do so well need not even occur to the individual . |
| 23 | The bailiffs of the town were ordered by the court to produce them , but did not do so . |
| 24 | That said , we have seen so many people in recent months who wanted to move but could not do so until they knew what was going to happen to their take-home income . ’ |
| 25 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 26 | Although caddying was in decline after 1950 ( the year trolleys are first recorded on the course ) , the Club considered engaging a new caddie master after his retirement , but it seems did not do so . |
| 27 | The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home . |
| 28 | So any electoral system should promote all three , and in this writer 's view the present system does not do so . |
| 29 | You do not do so in any other circumstance . |
| 30 | In certain cases , the Government will guarantee most of a loan , which makes it possible for us to lend in circumstances where we would ordinarily not do so . |