Example sentences of "do not [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police administrative districts do not neatly coincide with local-government wards , but the 1981 |
| 2 | However , the origin of scribal habits is not in itself valid proof that variable use of the conventions in written English do not also relate to variable usages in spoken English . |
| 3 | The problem with this type of explanation is that it fails to explain why women , who are surely more deprived than men , do not also engage in violent acts . |
| 4 | Expectations of changes in the exchange rate do not just depend on current domestic interest rates . |
| 5 | He had maintained that ‘ some of these bases do not even answer to strategic necessities in connection with the possibility of a world war , but simply serve for the imperialist domination of the peoples concerned , the subjection of nations and the combating of movements of national liberation ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ These men , ’ said a teacher , ‘ do not even speak in Castilian , but in slang ; sometimes they do n't even know how to write , and can hardly read . |
| 7 | The problems multiply for the newer financial and hedging instruments , many of which do not easily fit into existing statute and case law . |
| 8 | Voters do not instinctively turn to Labour in time of trouble . |
| 9 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 10 | Although many of the larger integrated securities firms such as UBS Philips & Drew , Barclays de Zoete Wedd , Warburg Securities and Hoare Govett do not generally cater for private clients now , many other firms do , offering a whole range of services including advisory or discretionary fund management . |
| 11 | The reason that people do not generally look into alternative credit terms in any detail certainly is not that they feel pushed willy-nilly into one particular type of credit . |
| 12 | I do not ordinarily go to Egyptian plays . |
| 13 | Partly because of this kind of situation , it is generally accepted in the United States that conventional credit scoring systems do not reliably discriminate between good and bad payers either among people on very low incomes or among people in the 18 to 25 age group . |
| 14 | Certainly platelets do not normally adhere to arterial endothelium if it is not damaged but the explanation for this antithrombotic property of intact endothelium remains obscure . |
| 15 | Therefore , in an unexpected contrast with the uplands , informal recreation sites in the urban fringe do not normally suffer from recreational over-use . |
| 16 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 17 | Non-pelagic species , which do not normally come into direct contact with ice , appear to avoid freezing simply by supercooling ; their fluids remain ice-free even 1–2°C below freezing point . |
| 18 | The techniques used with normal subjects give estimates that do not closely correspond to those derived from the clinical literature . |
| 19 | Indeed there is , if anything , a tendency for the final events to be revealed early in the investigation while the factors which led to them remain obscure until a much later stage , and some do not ever emerge at all . |
| 20 | We do not fully agree with this , but the issue must await Chapter 5 . |
| 21 | In this section we attempt to provide a framework for discussion of a number of special instructions ( or groups of instructions ) , provided in current computers or proposed for the future , which do not naturally fit into these groups . |
| 22 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 23 | Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars . |
| 24 | On several occasions when their views have been canvassed , the judges of the High Court and the Court of Appeal have shown themselves capable of contemplating changes that do not necessarily coincide with popular or professional opinion . |
| 25 | ‘ . These figures do not necessarily correlate with increased market power , however , there being evidence to indicate that aggregate concentration and concentration in individual industries have not increased since the mid-1970's . |
| 26 | Evans-Pritchard and others have also pointed out that the divisions between scientific and non-scientific thinking as such , if they can indeed be reliably established , do not necessarily correlate with different social groups . |
| 27 | Quinn sees large companies as similar to large rivers slowly moving in given directions , but containing within them various ebbs , flows and eddies which , while they do not necessarily contribute in any direct analytical way to the general direction , nevertheless in aggregate help to determine it . |
| 28 | More and more tents are coming onto the market which do not necessarily conform to these definitions but they will rely predominantly on one system for their stability . |
| 29 | Such abstract typologies help us to understand the behaviour of councillors as a group but they do not necessarily apply to individual councillors who may exhibit characteristics drawn from several of the main types . |
| 30 | It is clear from this that periods when enclosure was taking place do not necessarily correspond with those when articulate protests were being voiced against them . |