Example sentences of "do not [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Secretary is promoting his Bill by saying that people who are fleeing from political or social oppression do not deserve to come here and do not deserve political asylum . |
| 2 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 3 | However , old people who need help do not initiate such schemes . |
| 4 | It has been argued that very few electors usually read them and that many of the commitments made do not enjoy widespread support among voters , even among those voting for the parties that issued them . |
| 5 | Some later Acts , such as that of 1853 disafforesting Wychwood Forest , did not extinguish common rights : common fields were to be set and cleared in each parish in compensation for the common rights which the forest inhabitants had previously enjoyed over the whole forest waste . |
| 6 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
| 7 | The antibody titre did not bear any relation to the clinical activity , biochemistry ( data not shown ) , or the liver histology ( see Table III ) of the patients . |
| 8 | After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ] |
| 9 | Many local folk who earned their living on or from the river were still worried about what would happen in the end , but one man busy in his small yard behind the bustling Tower Bridge Road market did not give international events a second thought . |
| 10 | It seems to me that Bethe ( writing in 1954 ) did not give due credit to Ulam for switching ideas onto an entirely new track ; judging from accounts given elsewhere ( eg The Advisors , H. F. York , San Francisco , 1976 ) Ulam rather than Teller should be called ‘ The Father of the H-Bomb ’ . |
| 11 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 12 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
| 13 | I did not give much thought to the possibility of their innocence and in fact thought that they were both involved with Mathews in the crime . |
| 14 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 15 | Concentrating on his first reason , Sophie did not give much attention to his last remark . |
| 16 | Even such an excellent scholar as Wyld , who was extremely interested in the social motivations of change , did not give sufficient weight to the evidence for [ h ] -loss . |
| 17 | A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices . |
| 18 | The other approximation using a finite tip radius did not give sufficient detail close to the actual crack tip where fracture was occurring . |
| 19 | Critics also considered that the emphasis on efficiency did not give sufficient importance to the quality of health care provided . |
| 20 | If we wish seriously to enhance such process rights , then we must be prepared to listen to claims that the agency did not give adequate consideration to certain views . |
| 21 | They did not give any sign of interest in us . |
| 22 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 23 | The official return did not give any details about the population on that , or any other , day , but there was a breakdown of the characteristics of all prisoners admitted during 1987 . |
| 24 | Although the statement did not give further details , other official sources confirmed that soldiers who saw a Palestinian carrying a firearm , a knife or other lethal weapon might open fire without further warning " in an attempt to stop him " . |
| 25 | Throughout the post-war period the case for a high degree of centralised planning was weakening because there was no serious attempt to address the problem of an allocative mechanism which did not give free reign to market prices and collective bargaining . |
| 26 | The old thick rad did not give enough clearance for a normal or any other type of fan . |
| 27 | Indeed Bevin did not want joint bases in peacetime : these might simply provoke the USSR . |
| 28 | They did not want outside intervention in the collective bargaining process from representatives of more broadly-based trade unions since such interference could be inimical to the preservation of paternalistic employee relations within the undertaking ( Okochi et al . , |
| 29 | I certainly did not want existing company schemes to collapse and saw no reason why this should happen . |
| 30 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |