Example sentences of "[verb] not do [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he has not done so tends to confirm that the firing was a spontaneous action triggered by the unexpected escalation of Mr Buchanan 's attack on the NEA . |
| 2 | One official labelled cattle trespass ‘ the curse of the district ’ , and a mudaliyar complained that ‘ at present there is not a single cow , or a buffalo which has not done more damage to the community at large , than double her worth to the owner . ’ |
| 3 | There is precedent for saying that a drunken belief that the car belongs to the accused when it did not does not give a s.12(6) defence : Gannon ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 254 . |
| 4 | At the same time , the committee believed , some West Indian parents did not do enough to support schools and teachers . |
| 5 | ’ Lucienne Palmer : ‘ I was so greedy for Oxford Life that I simply did not do enough work , I know . |
| 6 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 7 | It is surprising that his fondness for drink did not do more to impair his career , which was a remarkable career , only marred by his reaction to the appointment of Harold Wilson as the leader of the Labour Party . |
| 8 | By this reasoning the things which they do not do well become part of the ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 9 | The need to carry out ‘ proper ’ audits has been spelled out to firms , and those that do not do so run the serious risk of losing their right to act as company auditors . |
| 10 | Mrs Donaghy and Patricia McKeown , deputy regional secretary of health service union , UNISON , agreed that management do not do enough to support staff . |
| 11 | The Kennel Club defend themselves against accusations that they do not do enough to curtail irresponsible breeding . |
| 12 | Among more radical monetarists and free marketeers there remains disappointment that the government had not done more to shift the middle ground . |
| 13 | There was a reaction against ( Conservative ) government unpreparedness for war in the 1930s and against those who had not done more to solve the nation 's problems during the Depression . |
| 14 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 15 | Myths and rumours can still circulate about what SCOTVEC does not does not accept in terms of assessment . |
| 16 | The fact that the beverages with low alcohol content stimulate gastrin release whereas alcohol itself does not do so suggests that this response is mediated by the non-ethanolic component of the beverage . |