Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-assured enough to make decisions , clarify your goals and take risks , other people 's definitions , needs and opinions do not represent a threat to you . |
| 2 | Thus if all cancers discovered at necropsy were identified clinically and treated then 26 out of 27 patients would be treated unnecessarily because these tumours do not represent a threat to their lives . |
| 3 | Do not reply a letter to Lewis until I contact you because I could not be here . |
| 4 | The words of the statute , as they stand , do not give an answer to the question before the judge ; and the question is therefore legislative rather than interpretative . |
| 5 | They do not hold a light to the more flamboyant and colourful dendrodorids but are nevertheless beautiful in a grotesque sort of way . |
| 6 | Chamber of Trade chairman , Dick King , told the Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting : ‘ I believe it is basically wrong for membership subscriptions to finance what is in effect a benefit provided for the town , and enjoyed by many other businesses who do not contribute a penny to the upkeep . |
| 7 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |
| 8 | Clearly , the British people do not want a return to the failed interventionist , socialist policies of the 1960s and 1970s — and that is another reason why Labour will be defeated at the next general election . |
| 9 | Older teenagers do not want a mother to be yearning over them day and night , even when several hundred miles lie between them . |
| 10 | They do not require a circular to be issued or prior shareholders ' approval . |
| 11 | There will , of course , be some operation numbers which do not require a letter to be sent : application received , for example . |
| 12 | They do not require an appeal to effects specific to the discriminative stimuli . |
| 13 | ( We do not attribute a degree to the zero polynomial f = 0 ) . |
| 14 | While they do not mark a return to a prescribed curriculum ( like that which applied to schools in England and Wales before 1926 ) , they do signify a subtle change of direction . |
| 15 | We do not recommend a return to that kind of grammar teaching . |
| 16 | Whilst agreeing with the Commission about the desirability of reducing the number of crown court cases which are prepared for trial but where the defendant unexpectedly pleads guilty at the last moment , it believes that there are other ways of tackling this problem which do not pose a threat to the interests of justice . |
| 17 | It is claimed that the new levels of pesticide do not pose a risk to health . |
| 18 | The porters do not have a key to the cupboard . |
| 19 | It would be more accurate to say that although we do not have a right to such things we do have freedom to do them . |
| 20 | If you like to drink alcohol regularly , you will probably find this is the most pleasant week of the diet , provided you do n't experience a reaction to it . |
| 21 | Excursions : Whatever you do , do n't miss a visit to romantic Venice . |
| 22 | I mean , they do n't hold a mirror to your lips or anything . ’ |
| 23 | I was trying to clarify they do n't make a contribution to the I five provision . |
| 24 | He told me , ‘ You do n't speak a word to anybody else , and when I 've hit that ball , we 're on our way . ’ |
| 25 | You do n't crop an etching to it 's edges . |
| 26 | Since issue number one we 've quoted the raw results of the benchmark tests we use ( and we 've chosen them pretty carefully , I might add , and applied them to every machine submitted to us for review ) , but we 've discovered that the raw figures do n't mean a lot to a great many of you . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps you 've forgotten , Caroline — such things do n't mean a thing to me . ’ |
| 28 | My plane ticket 's even paid for I do n't pay a cent to be here . |
| 29 | You do n't need a line to God now to see the way things are going . |
| 30 | I do n't have a thermometer to hand , but I 'll settle for 101 . |