Example sentences of "[pers pn] do not [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that , I do not simply mean the gods , but human culture itself as well . |
| 2 | I do not yet have the exact date but I expect it will be some time during March or April — more likely April . |
| 3 | No , I do not wish to give any sort of name to it because I do not yet grasp the true meaning of this ‘ presence' : all that I sense , however vaguely , is that it or he or He is not hostile . |
| 4 | I do not however think the engine when running has any wear problems to cause low oil pressure and have some vague thought that when a remote oil filter is fitted high up you have to remove the pressure release valve or do something or other . |
| 5 | I do not however think the Court of Appeal can have intended to exclude all information in Goulding J's second category from possible protection by a restrictive covenant . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |
| 7 | I do not fully appreciate the experience of an American late-night movie without a bourbon , or a book at bedtime without a single malt . |
| 8 | I do not fully share the concern of those sociologists ( and others ) , who wish to address the question of what differentiates professions from non-professional occupations . |
| 9 | I do not entirely believe the member who said that their traditions were more important than the money . |
| 10 | I do not really accept the underlying assumption about a ‘ culture ’ of shared norms . |
| 11 | As the Wasp Junior is supercharged you do not just push the lever to the stop for fear of bursting it , so I relied on Tony to limit the movement of my left hand , revelling in the swelling thunder of the fifteen-litre engine and the surging acceleration as the nose reared under its power . |
| 12 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 13 | Clean air , by and large , also serves as an example of nonrivalrous consumption : by breathing , you do not perceptibly reduce the supply of air for others . |
| 14 | Phone back within twenty-four hours to report progress even if you do not yet have the answer . |
| 15 | What was not understood was that when you sweep away a feudal society , you do not overnight change the institutions or the casts of thought that have been built up over centuries . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps you do not fully realize the gravity of your actions . |
| 17 | ‘ You do not really understand the issues . ’ |
| 18 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 19 | Although we do not presently know the functional in vivo sites for pou[c] binding , the results reported here strongly suggest that these sites should be related to the TAATGARAT- and/or degenerate octamer-TAATGA motifs rather than the canonical octamer motif . |
| 20 | On a theory of understanding which linked what we can understand with what we could come to recognise as true , the distinction collapses and all the relevant sceptical arguments will be of the strongest type ; that is , will claim that we do not even understand the propositions we claim to know . |
| 21 | How can we know the answers if we do not even ask the questions ? |
| 22 | We do not demand a ban on all sterilisation just because some women are forced to be sterilised , we do not even attack the whole concept of a well are state just because of abuses like the cohabitation rule , so why oppose pay for childcare solely because it might be abused ? |
| 23 | Although there is no direct evidence on the subject of Richard 's upbringing and education — we do not even know the names of his tutors as we do in his father 's case — it is none the less possible , by using romances and treatises , to reconstruct the type of education which he must have undergone . |
| 24 | ‘ We do not automatically dispense the pill , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Already we have a few examples of the end-product of several stages of processing , although we do not yet understand the mechanisms . |
| 26 | If we do not yet have the solution to the problem of consciousness , we are at least working towards it within the right framework . |
| 27 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 28 | In the short term , disappointment at this result may be tempered by the knowledge that we do not yet have the burden of the large numbers of additional students already taken by some of the immediate winners in this competition . |
| 29 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 30 | Unfortunately we do not yet know the accuracy of the three tests in combination . |