Example sentences of "do not [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to suggest that life in a large mental handicap hospital is a fulfilling experience ; on the contrary , it has already been established that such places should not ideally exist and do not represent a suitable home for mentally handicapped people . |
| 2 | However , the areas he must address do not concern the first team alone . |
| 3 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 4 | There was some nervousness that perhaps modular courses did not deliver a satisfactory educational experience from the viewpoint of the student . |
| 5 | In reality , from the study of the videotapes made of the language performance of most of the 150 people who took part , the language level actually being achieved did not bear a great similarity to the BSL as used by deaf people . |
| 6 | However , a report prepared over five years by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , released in August , concluded that the USA did not bear a disproportionate share of the NATO burden . |
| 7 | Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses . |
| 8 | Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 9 | The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure . |
| 10 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 11 | The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East . |
| 12 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 13 | The reader should realize that Einstein did not give a rigorous mathematical proof of GR and neither has anyone else . |
| 14 | Some scholars have claimed that the fact that Ambrose did not give an exact site for the church — indeed , it seems he was actually careful not to — means that it was not a real church at all , merely a metaphor . |
| 15 | The court took the view , which was to be expressly repudiated in later cases , that although there was jurisdiction to entertain the action against the German corporation , this did not give the Californian court jurisdiction over persons or property in Germany . |
| 16 | The company , which is trading under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , did not give the nine month figures . |
| 17 | The 1952 Works Constitution Law spread workers ' powers more widely across German industry , although this act did not give the same degree of influence as was provided in the coal and steel industries . |
| 18 | Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) . |
| 19 | City sources indicated they did not want a wide-ranging Budget that would tackle much-needed reforms such as mortgage tax relief and that it would be better for the Chancellor to do as little as possible . |
| 20 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 21 | The SEA was a compromise between those countries such as France and Germany who wanted a new Treaty on European Union , and the UK and Denmark who did not want a new Treaty , but simply the implementation of the White Paper in order to create an SEM . |
| 22 | I did not want a post-modernist confusion . |
| 23 | She did not want a prolonged discussion , she wanted only that he should go away . |
| 24 | Winnie did not want a married couple , and such a minute flat would not be suitable for people with babies or pets . |
| 25 | She did not want a small army camping indefinitely among her flowerbeds and rose bushes . |
| 26 | In 1949 Beryl found that she was pregnant again , but did not want a second child . |
| 27 | Maybe he did not want a second game on their pitch . ’ |
| 28 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 29 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 30 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |