Example sentences of "[not/n't] do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all the work she had to do my mother could not do a sloppy job . |
| 2 | One ca n't believe that players such as Colin Stephens , Aled Williams or Adrian Davies would not do a better job in the No10 jersey and it seems a far cry from the days when the Welsh stand off factory was in full production . |
| 3 | The factual information may have a place later on in the essay but as it is used here , as an introduction , it does not do a useful job . |
| 4 | You will not do a great deal of good if you do nothing from Monday to Saturday and then run five miles on Sunday . |
| 5 | I can not do a good job from a chair on a table ! |
| 6 | Men such as Syd obviously took a great deal of pride in their work — woe betide a fireman or fitter who did not do a good job ! |
| 7 | but it will not do a little bit |
| 8 | Surely , I thought , if we can do this with pensions can we not do the same with social security ? |
| 9 | That shut them up and should it not do the same to we miserable sinners today ? |
| 10 | Unfortunately he could not do the same at Newcastle in the FA Cup and , although he got leave of absence from school for the match , we were unable to prevent the Geordies from avenging their 1907 defeat . |
| 11 | Whether nature does or does not do the same thing is always tantalising , and sometimes revealing about the principles and mechanisms underlying the creation of structures . |
| 12 | Whereas we have , or can afford to buy , the equipment and expertise in print production which makes relatively small print-runs but high production values viable , we can not do the same so readily and so confidently for , say , CD-ROM . |
| 13 | Ireland did it against Italy on New Year 's Eve 1988 and Wales are scheduled to award caps for their game with the Italians in Cardiff on October 7th this year , so why not do the same , Scotland ? |
| 14 | Its EC partners , still bound by their ERM promises , can not do the same . |
| 15 | Why not do the same today with computers ? |
| 16 | He had reason to believe , he said , that the Normans in Herefordshire had made good use of the Roman building-materials ready to hand , and there was no reason why others should not do the same . |
| 17 | If you can not do the whole garden at once , I have found it better to do a small area really well and then concentrate on another the next year . |
| 18 | Why not do the whole thing in plastic ? |
| 19 | to the third year and I might not do the fourth year . |
| 20 | ‘ With a river handy , and you past resistance , why not do the obvious thing , and shove you far enough in to make sure the current took you ? |
| 21 | We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals . |
| 22 | The problem with recent miscarriages of justice has been that the police have not done a thorough enough job . |
| 23 | If this is not done a disillusioned employee may well leave after a short time and you will have to repeat the expensive and disruptive process of interviewing all over again . |
| 24 | Stitches may be necessary to close a gaping cut , and if this is not done a permanent scar may result . |
| 25 | Applying Morris one has not because one has not done an unauthorised act . |
| 26 | In favour of rigorism , there is the apparent reasonableness of saying that if one fails to do all one can to promote happiness ( and , in particular , to reduce suffering ) one has not done the best one could do , and that must be wrong . |
| 27 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 28 | The abolition of those taxes has not done the average family any good , has it , or those at Lloyd 's ? |
| 29 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 30 | Whether they value their police service enough or not and whether it needs more money or not to do a good job or whether the authorities should take a look at how it is being run . |