Example sentences of "[not/n't] do [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clients where anxiety is secondary to another major problem , e.g. a formal mental illness , clinical depression , major marital dysfunction , or an eating disorder are not suitable and , in our experience , do not do particularly well in this type of group . |
| 2 | They enlisted the young Joan at art school , but he did not do well there , and in 1910 he was enrolled as a trainee at a Barcelona haberdashers . |
| 3 | It is submitted that in these circumstances they do not do well enough with the written word . |
| 4 | A candidate who does not do well enough in the written examination for the Master 's degree , but who otherwise attains a satisfactory standard , may be awarded the Diploma . |
| 5 | Black kids go to school ill-equipped to do well and , of course , the majority do not do well academically . |
| 6 | Psychologism , through its influence in marriage guidance and churches , and also through its effects in the world of work — in personnel management , for example — is able to link the two spheres in a way religion used to be able to do but can not do any longer . |
| 7 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |
| 8 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 9 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 10 | The fact that the group 's thorough investigation failed to reveal the existence of this mini ‘ statement of purpose ’ either in print or [ more likely ] in preparation could speak volumes for their assertion , repeated at regular intervals , that British Gas do not do enough internally to publicise environmental efforts . |
| 11 | Because of the recession , there is a prospect that more of that money will flow back out of Washington afterwards in refunds to taxpayers who did not do as well as in the past . |
| 12 | Roger did not do as well as hoped in his ‘ A ’ levels , but will probably go to Birmingham to do a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 13 | So widows in large houses ( who always feature prominently in arguments about property taxes ) will not do as badly as under the rates . |
| 14 | My Mum also ran in the Mum and Dads race which my mum did not do too well . |
| 15 | Selfridges did not do too badly , thanks to returning tourists , but a £7m cut in non-shoe retailing profits reflects a shocking period 's trading at Wallis and Horne . |
| 16 | ‘ Besides that we did not do too badly ’ said Sanderson . |
| 17 | If he takes his clothes off , which he does not do very easily because it hurts so much , one sees open wounds from the top of his chest down to his toes . |
| 18 | She would not do very well on any test of strength , stamina , or suppleness . |
| 19 | Governments in Britain in the eighteenth century did not do very much ; some of the neglect of the colonies simply paralleled what was happening in the British Isles . |
| 20 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 21 | Will the Minister confirm that the Government will take the necessary steps — if necessary through Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution — to ensure that PowerGen complies with its commitment to retrofit 4 GW of coal burn should it not do so voluntarily ? |
| 22 | The Minister warned : ‘ He may be able to carry on in the job but he can not do so effectively . |
| 23 | For example , by the third sub-maxim of Manner ( " be brief " ) , wherever I avoid some simple expression in favour of some more complex paraphrase , it may be assumed that I do not do so wantonly , but because the details are somehow relevant to the present enterprise . |
| 24 | Rather , if faith does not begin , reason will not do so either . |
| 25 | The S.N.M. declined to attend and it seems that General Aidid did not do so either . |
| 26 | What I am clear about is that Parliament has not conferred such autonomy on a 16- to 18-year-old child by virtue of section 8 of the Act of 1969 , and that the common law , as interpreted by the House of Lords in Gillick 's case does not do so either . |
| 27 | In a dramatic personal speech , Mr Lamont disclosed that on Black Wednesday the Prime Minister wrote to him saying he was not resigning ‘ and I should not do so either ’ . |
| 28 | The fact that there may be others in society who do not do so well need not even occur to the individual . |
| 29 | Alas the ancients did not do so well at Tilberthwaite as we have seen . |
| 30 | It has been argued , for a long time now , that the reason girls do not do so well at mathematics is that females , from at least adolescence onwards , have poorer spatial visualisation ability than males . |