Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] do [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It will be the same for all the other candidates so do not allow tricky moments to throw you off balance .
2 However , speakers often do not provide such explicit guidelines to help the analyst select chunks of discourse for study .
3 I might try to read , but the words often do n't make much sense ! ’
4 In many cases schools manifestly do not meet these criteria .
5 The old , the poor , the sick , the homeless and the animals certainly do n't deserve another five years of Tory rule , but the I 'm all right Jacks have made sure they are getting it .
6 They probably possess more sophisticated navigational equipment , but seasonal movements alone do not demand such skills .
7 The committees ‘ never get to the leading edge because large companies usually do n't understand new technology , so they drag their feet on committees until they are able to catch up . ’
8 The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views .
9 These show that the dominant and bureaucratic-technical classes together do not exceed 15 per cent of the Economically Active Population in any Latin American country and in most their proportion is much lower .
10 There are some household name companies whose boards still do n't get monthly results .
11 The fact that some of the buildings still do not have opening licences and lack the necessary safety conditions will be ‘ sorted out ’ .
12 The Spanish growers may be doing their best to provide tomatoes acceptable to the English market but evidently English varieties and the Spanish soil and climatic conditions just do n't suit each other .
13 Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean
14 It has not reneged on any of its claims , but , with the box having become a symbol of the garbage crisis , it concedes that " our customers just do n't feel good about it " .
15 However , some things simply do not work first time out .
16 There was never any real cover for dividends , and the property values now do n't cover one-fifth of his borrowings — from a couple of pension funds and various other institutions as well as from the bank .
17 Meetings often do not have real objectives ( see page 119 ) so much as a list of activities .
18 and argue for schools to examine PATTERNS OF ABSENCES as attendance rates alone do not say enough
19 They are n't heavy eaters so do not need constant feeding , but they do prefer well-drained , humus-rich soil .
20 Yet the major lines of conflict and political mobilization evident in liberal democracies often do not appear class-based .
21 As Taylor rightly says , most academics simply do not feel competent to comment on what goes on outside their discipline , and even if they do , there are powerful professional and institutional demarcations which deter them from doing so .
22 British climbers simply do not get enough practice in downclimbing before they visit the alps .
23 Studies of take-up of welfare benefits indicate that universal child benefit is more successful in reaching impoverished families than targeted means-tested benefits ( Brown , 1988 ) , yet policies frequently do not reflect such knowledge .
24 Although test maintenance manuals contain recommended procedures for detection , repair , procedures alone do not assure successful completion of trouble-shooting and repair in a timely manner for the following reasons :
25 Significantly , such improvements in the quality of family life and in the health and well-being of individual family members generally do not imply large per capita financial outlays .
26 Scottish players simply do n't understand that .
27 In normal families , family members frequently do not like each other very much .
28 Children here do n't lack any sort of ability it 's because th they English is n't their first language so they need support in learning English to help them with the everyday necessities of the national curriculum .
29 " The farm 's a good way away and the fields between do n't show any signs of elil at all .
30 Babies certainly do n't come cheap , but how much do the average couple spend on their firstborn ?
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