Example sentences of "do not [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He was not a very intelligent man ; intelligent men do not go to prison with such sad regularity . |
2 | companies as defined in companies legislation to account for finance costs which do not relate to revenue in the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
3 | Discussions over the need for increased powers for the Scottish party were initiated by its nationalist wing but have been seized on by the left as a means of ensuring that Labour 's different electoral aims north and south of the Border do not lead to alienation of the party 's traditional supporters in Scotland . |
4 | Thousands more shut today and do not return to work until January 7 . |
5 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
6 | Similarly , the general COB Rules do not apply to business from non-UK offices of UK firms with customers outside the UK . |
7 | Do not apply to sale of shares . |
8 | They do not come to school as empty vessels . |
9 | Yet of course many projects do not come to fruition for very many years , and large important projects lead to adverse short-term cash flows . |
10 | But managers do not respond to competition in simplistic ways and price signals , which are in any case weak , are usually ignored in favour of other factors which purchasers deem to be more important , for example GP referral patterns . |
11 | I said to him : do n't go to sleep in the middle of rehearsals ! |
12 | All the negative states of emotion drain our energy — ‘ Do n't go to bed with a quarrel ’ is not just another saying , as our state of sleep is affected adversely by the quarrel . |
13 | ‘ A lesson , ’ I said ‘ But I do n't go to school on Sundays . ’ |
14 | We found that a lot of young couples that because you do n't go to church on a regular basis but erm , to go along with their parents ' wishes too , rather than going through a big church wedding in a church , they go to a hotel and they have the erm , wedding ceremony and the reception all in the hotel , and are married by a minister . |
15 | The rhetoric of politicians was littered with idealistic assumptions , from the ‘ new thinking ’ of President Gorbachev to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's assertion that ‘ democracies do n't go to war with each other ’ . |
16 | Is it true that liberal democracies ‘ do n't go to war with one another ’ ? |
17 | I mean you do n't want to kind of put them off too much erm |
18 | I do n't want to sort of wade in in response to that , I want other people to er |
19 | Right I mean I do n't want to sort of pry into how you do your business that the in the the getting of that information that 's that is relatively straightforward , is it ? |
20 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
21 | I 'm not cared I 'm not a lass , I do n't have to make-up on them . |
22 | we do n't have to sort of , ai n't got ta take really too much muck |
23 | narrow foot yeah it 's like you do n't have to sort of ones our Adie got is the best |
24 | Do n't have to sort of spread them out like that you should toes |
25 | ‘ You do n't come to prominence through one film alone . |