Example sentences of "[not/n't] do [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1887 Peach and Horne did not do much field work as the former had sciatica and the latter suffered from what was described as inflammation . |
| 2 | We visited Oslo Fjord with only six 250lb bombs and that would not do much damage even if we had found a target ( which we did not ) . |
| 3 | And while a little plumpness may not do much harm , being very fat is a definite health hazard , increasing the risk of heart disease , gall bladder disease , some cancers and arthritis . |
| 4 | These , in themselves , do not do much harm , but in unpainted ply they form little traps for moisture and bacteria and so lead to trouble . |
| 5 | Do n't worry about some Strangelove of a character turning your innocent little toy into a satellite vaporiser , theory has it that military research is second rate because you can not do good research behind screens of secrecy and away from the cut and thrust of peer review . |
| 6 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 7 | I 'm the other spaceman baby But I can not do that mum . |
| 8 | Women did not do that kind of thing , even in cosmopolitan Cairo . |
| 9 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
| 10 | I realised I had never ever shaken his hand before , MPs do not do that sort of thing . |
| 11 | You can not do that sort of thing if you 're a priest . ’ |
| 12 | You simply did not do that sort of thing to men like Luke Denner ! |
| 13 | This may not sound too drastic , but these overall figures do not do any kind of justice to the overcrowding problem . |
| 14 | This feature is not as gimmicky as it sounds , as putting down a very hot air gun where it will not do any damage can often be a problem . |
| 15 | Well did that not do any damage to their ribs then ? |
| 16 | Not different at all , countered Weinberger : still fanatically anti-American and virulently anti-western ; America could not do any business with them . |
| 17 | It does not do any arithmetic . |
| 18 | ‘ It 'll not do any good . |
| 19 | It does not do any good to try to run away from reality or to trivialise these issues . |
| 20 | The fact that the Inspirals ' next single is called ‘ Caravan ’ might not do any harm either . |
| 21 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 22 | It is that if governments did not do this kind of thing the probability of their interfering in the workings of the market economy would a that much greater . |
| 23 | Honey 's work also presents difficulties for the viewer : on the surface it could be seen as a further exploitation of the female either as a child or a woman , but this would not do this work justice . |
| 24 | and you find erm people like Lynn you know , bless her , who now , who is n't too bad when she 's not too bad and is n't too good when she 's not too good , you know , and it is such a very very Not only can you not put anything visibly in in common with everyone that 's got it , even the people that have got it ca n't say I can not do this period , they say oh well I 'm not too good now but maybe last week or maybe next week |
| 25 | A blind person remarked : ‘ If someone said to me ‘ You 'd better not do this placement ’ then I 'd rather walk to Australia on my hands than admit that I could n't . ’ |
| 26 | Frodo makes a clear and active statement of his own evil intention : ‘ I will not do this deed . |
| 27 | At the moment we are also paying for a specialist company to provide address labels in postcode order ( to quality for Presstream ) because until a few weeks ago the National Office computer could not do this task . |
| 28 | But a list of his achievements does not do full justice to Norman Davis as scholar and person . |
| 29 | And he concludes that although hymns and songs of praise are a ‘ poore sort ’ , they reflect the true worship of heaven , which itself can not do full justice to God 's greatness : |
| 30 | Such a brief survey can not do full justice to the theoretical ramifications of ‘ market economics ’ , but it should be sufficient to indicate how the new doctrine has been directed against the very basis of demand management as practised between 1950 and the early 1970s [ Walters , 1978 ] . |