Example sentences of "not do the " 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 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
| 3 | If you can not do the whole garden at once , I have found it better to do a small area really well and then concentrate on another the next year . |
| 4 | We could not do the trip in and out of the town in time to catch the last plane that evening , so we were condemned to this place and an early flight . |
| 5 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 6 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 7 | Surely , I thought , if we can do this with pensions can we not do the same with social security ? |
| 8 | • concentrate on careful brushing , toothpaste alone will not do the job |
| 9 | Birch fails to convince me that a more traditional theology could not do the job . |
| 10 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 11 | ‘ Why not do the walk yourself ? ’ |
| 12 | What is not acknowledged is the fact that it is very difficult to tell someone their blood is no good or they can not do the job . |
| 13 | It is totally pointless to use extra-heavy rods at short range which can not do the job they were designed for if they are not used with lines of the appropriate length . |
| 14 | That shut them up and should it not do the same to we miserable sinners today ? |
| 15 | Unfortunately he could not do the same at Newcastle in the FA Cup and , although he got leave of absence from school for the match , we were unable to prevent the Geordies from avenging their 1907 defeat . |
| 16 | Local mechanics can not do the job , so once the US experts have left , the government will have the burden of spending limited foreign currency to buy spare parts from abroad . |
| 17 | Whether nature does or does not do the same thing is always tantalising , and sometimes revealing about the principles and mechanisms underlying the creation of structures . |
| 18 | Officials in charge of the roads in California and Texas say the material , called epoflex , is difficult to apply and may not do the job intended . |
| 19 | If the sugar-free diet does not do the trick , the next step is to cut out all fruit for a while . |
| 20 | Shifting loyalties once more , he determines to kill Custer , but can not do the deed when he has the chance , and becomes a vagrant . |
| 21 | Keane has 18 months left on his contract and the speculation does not do the game any good . ’ |
| 22 | Whereas we have , or can afford to buy , the equipment and expertise in print production which makes relatively small print-runs but high production values viable , we can not do the same so readily and so confidently for , say , CD-ROM . |
| 23 | Ireland did it against Italy on New Year 's Eve 1988 and Wales are scheduled to award caps for their game with the Italians in Cardiff on October 7th this year , so why not do the same , Scotland ? |
| 24 | As we proceed with making a tie , the purpose of it will become apparent — as well as the reason why plastic straps , loops of string and , worst of all , wire loops , do not do the job and can be so dangerous . |
| 25 | Its EC partners , still bound by their ERM promises , can not do the same . |
| 26 | In the passive voice the subject does not do the action : it suffers the action . |
| 27 | Moreover that they do not do the work which it is intended that they shall do . |
| 28 | In fact he did not do the work for which he was paid and , indeed , after December 1987 there was no record of any quarterly VAT returns whatsoever having been made . |
| 29 | WHO SHOULD NOT DO THE DIET |
| 30 | Before the elections of 1964 , 1966 , and 1970 , real personal disposable income was rising at more than double its normal rate of growth — so supporting the political business cycle thesis , but Alt suggests that these " short pre-election spurts may not do the government of the day all that much good , and there is no evidence that they do ( at least if short-term enough ) the economy any particular harm " . |