Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This reveals that these words do not just carry information about proportions but also about speakers ' expectations , and even speakers ' expectations about hearers ' expectations and so on .
2 ‘ I am numb , I do not even feel anger towards whoever did it . ’
3 In fact , newspaper editors sometimes do not even exercise control over large sections of their newspapers .
4 She disagrees with Leach 's statement that ‘ two-year-olds can not be good or naughty on purpose because they do not yet know right from wrong or understand what makes the difference ’ .
5 Although , at this stage , there is still some mismatch between policy and practice since the research findings revealed that some children do not yet have access to an effective modern language curriculum .
6 But the mass media do not single-handedly give shape to the contours of the political system .
7 Youth ( a comparative term in this context ) and experience do not normally go hand in hand .
8 I do not normally give way to someone who has just ambled into the Chamber , but I shall make an exception on this occasion , because I rather like the hon. Gentleman 's florid looks .
9 Directors do not normally expect payment for their services though a small gift might be appropriate .
10 A special link is used in conjunction with passwords and allows users who do not normally have access to a user 's modules without supplying a valid password ( as they are in a different branch of the user tree ) .
11 Do not automatically add salt to a meal .
12 Some exclusion clauses do not totally exclude liability for a breach but only restrict it .
13 Though these documents do not necessarily show evidence of cost-effectiveness thinking being employed in their production , they are the first sign that market forces are having an impact .
14 Unfortunately , the only easily quantifiable measure is new membership of the library but this is inadequate and inappropriate when the present wider range of services go beyond lending services and into the provision of various information services which do not necessarily require membership of the public library .
15 While the statutory grounds of attack do not specifically mention error of law on the face of the record , later courts have given the formula a broad interpretation .
16 It should be established at the outset that many large blue-chip companies do not actually use search at all .
17 These steps are needed but do not actually take advantage of the skills of bilingual pupils .
18 Nearly all these individuals are fully competent native speakers of British English , so they do not actually require Creole for strictly communicative purposes ; for them , Creole fulfils a number of other roles mostly related to its symbolic significance as a marker of black identity .
19 I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town .
20 The Sox do not merely snatch defeat from the jaws of victory ; they reach right down the oesophagus to retrieve it .
21 It is a composite of three separate bands and is false ( rather than natural ) colour because the three selected spectral bands do not usually represent reflection in the visible red , green and blue regions of the spectrum .
22 Human beings do not usually shoulder responsibility by choice .
23 When we feel unwell in some way or another we do not always recognize stress as the culprit .
24 Official materials and guidelines do not always find favour with parents and governors .
25 ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye .
26 Simply your inability to accept that your wishes do not always take precedence over other people 's ?
27 Admissions do not always take place in ideal circumstances , especially where a crisis has arisen .
28 ‘ The figures show that people do not really watch television to be informed , they watch it to relax , ’ said David Graham , whose research company compiled the top 100 .
29 It has been a matter of controversy whether the non-associative kinds of learning are really learning at all , and if so , whether they do not really take place by the same general mechanisms as associative learning .
30 You do n't not spend time on someone just because they are n't about any longer .
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