Example sentences of "[vb base] not [vb infin] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a mixture of indicators , but on the whole the adverse indicators seem heavier and more serious than the favourable ones , many of which are things such as confidence surveys , which do not tell one very much about what will happen . |
| 2 | Conversely , the school tests for explicitness do not tell us very much about the exercise of multiple points of view . |
| 3 | Thus , not only are there ambiguities in practice in terms of the organisational design of public sector organisations but they do not tell us very much about the power and status that attach to particular departments . |
| 4 | But they do not tell us much about how more complex cognitive processes take place . |
| 5 | While examination results alone do not tell us much about the nature of the educational crisis , they are useful indicators of the extent of the problem : undoubtedly school conditions and the situation of teachers have affected their outcomes . |
| 6 | But these caricatures do not tell us much about what is going on with real , complex individuals behind the scenes . |
| 7 | These correlations , while of interest , do not tell us much about the political substance of the ‘ class'/party link , but Butler and Stokes pursued this further by soliciting ‘ free ’ responses concerning the reasons for identification with one or other party . |
| 8 | Equally , you need to protect original work from unlawful commercial exploitation , just as you need to ensure that any ideas developed from elsewhere do not infringe someone else 's copyright . |
| 9 | I would like to point out that I do not hunt myself so feel I have a balanced point of view . |
| 10 | So when people do not listen to you , do not adopt your suggestion , do not consult you etc , assume that your behaviour was at fault , not theirs . |
| 11 | Following on from this , the superficial certainties of theoretical abstraction do not lend themselves easily to neat policy prescription , theoretical writing is necessarily partial , of limited value in helping people to see urban crisis from a different perspective . |
| 12 | The People 's machines do not threaten us then . |
| 13 | Like the views of their predecessors in classical Marxist thought , modern functionalist views do not regard it as useful or necessary to demonstrate the precise mechanisms by which state policy responds to structural imperatives ; instead they focus on macro-social issues and trends . |
| 14 | They do not regard it as offensive to say they want a quality of life more than they want challenge and promotion . ’ |
| 15 | Is it that they do not exert themselves enough ( we know that the English work as quickly as they work well ) ? |
| 16 | W. 's unhappy history is fully set out in the judgment of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. and I do not repeat it here . |
| 17 | ‘ Do not irritate me further , ’ he murmured . |
| 18 | They do not place themselves inside or outside the Renaissance by anything they actually do : it is we who place them there ( or exclude them therefrom ) by opting for one definition of the term rather than another . |
| 19 | They do not fit their newly found knowledge into the neat compartments so beloved by academics . |
| 20 | They seize the kittens , carry them off , and kill them ; but do not eat them afterwards . |
| 21 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 22 | Do not eat anything else between meals . |
| 23 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 24 | You do not strike me as ugly , nor mis-shapen , nor lacking manners . |
| 25 | However , do not throw it away . |
| 26 | Do not give it away . |
| 27 | Tragically , I have to wish that that was the case because today 's figures do not give us much ground for comfort , but , as long as the Minister continues his present style of trying to hype up and to trivialise every issue , that is what will happen to our agriculture . |
| 28 | Its success has been limited because some children will work on projects which interest them but which do not tax them sufficiently . |
| 29 | Osbern has his father killed by a lowly mob and thrown to birds and wild animals ; more reliable sources do not mention him again . |
| 30 | Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level . |