Example sentences of "do not [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you want to be force-fed stale angel cakes until you weigh 73 stones , do not tell these jokes at your Aunty 's . |
| 2 | Some people who have become severely deafened do not wear rubber soles on their shoes because they can only feel the vibration through the floor when wearing leather soles . |
| 3 | ‘ You do not commit American lives on somebody else 's time frame , somebody else 's plan and somebody else 's schedule , ’ said Mr Baker . |
| 4 | They do not represent additional demand for resources , they are merely transfers of purchasing power from the taxpayer to other sectors of the community . |
| 5 | In other words , the two meanings ‘ male cousin ’ and ‘ female cousin ’ are both associated with the same lexical unit cousin , whose meaning is more general than either ; they therefore do not represent distinct senses of cousin . |
| 6 | It would be foolish for politicians to accept interest group claims or activity at face value , since the signals from organized groups do not represent any kind of reliable picture of underlying citizen views . |
| 7 | After all , elections only occur once every 5 years , and the parties can only attend to the broad lines of policy and so do not represent particular interests in any meaningful way . |
| 8 | But unlike Kant 's Ideas the " do not represent ontological existents of a special sort . |
| 9 | Do not neglect any part of the plant being pressed , because you can usually find some use for it . |
| 10 | I ought to add , perhaps , that gay men do not regard this film with nothing but sad , solemn recognition — the characteristically gay male urge to mock and undercut what one genuinely and deeply feels , what Dyer brilliantly calls ‘ the knife edge between camp and hurt ’ , can be evidenced by pointing out that one of London 's most crowded and cruisy gay bars is called ‘ Brief Encounter ’ , though one is , alas , unlikely to meet anyone resembling Trevor Howard therein . |
| 11 | He further remarks how , even in cultures which do not regard sexual relations between men as unnatural or sinful , male sexual ‘ passivity ’ may be associated with inferiority , inadequacy , and even pathology . |
| 12 | I replied to Ms Chevannes through the same newspaper thus : ‘ Generally , black kids do not demonstrate interest in school work and do not sink much enthusiasm into their efforts . |
| 13 | This is not such a problem in most other EC states which do not demand major modifications for acceptance of imported aircraft onto their registers . |
| 14 | They become so accustomed to handling scissors , screwdrivers , drawing boards , drills and similar mechanisms in what is , for them , the more difficult posture , that they do not demand proper service from manufacturers . |
| 15 | They do not demand huge enclosures for exercise . |
| 16 | It has been shown that our thinking in terms of models such as ‘ democracy ’ , ‘ individualism ’ and ‘ rule of law ’ does not always adequately reflect reality , and sociological theory has demonstrated that simple notions of causality do not explain complex effects of action ( Luhmann , 1982 ; see also Prigogine and Stenger , 1985 ) ; also , theories of language tell us that we structure reality through the language we use ( Lacan , 1968 ) . |
| 17 | Between these two poles of urban progressive Gujerati families and Muslim peasant families fall the majority of situations , where the parents do not show much interest in their daughter 's school life and try and restrict her if she wants to enter higher education . |
| 18 | When one asks people what they think of their area and why they do not show more interest in it , their response is likely to be , ’ Why bother ? |
| 19 | Perhaps she resents the duty , feeling that other family members should do more , or that the parents do not show sufficient gratitude in return . |
| 20 | The realities of modern war do not brook much choice in the matter . |
| 21 | Pure oralists therefore do not tolerate any form of manual communication and do their teaching in an exclusively oral environment . |
| 22 | The different authors of the approach do not view structured analysis in the same way . |
| 23 | It is possible that these differences do not preclude these mosaics as works of the same mosaicist . |
| 24 | But sound also casts sonic shadows , though other than noticing that shutting the door can reduce the sound , we do not pay much heed to it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They do not pay enough attention to the development of the company . |
| 27 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 28 | The problems arise when we do not pay conscious attention to those sights which are important and which we would do well to notice . |
| 29 | Special provisions will also ensure that those on modest incomes most of which comes from investments , such as people who have been made redundant , do not pay this 9% on their savings . |
| 30 | Do not answer any questions from the receivers . |