Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I do n't really know much about planes to be honest with you . |
| 2 | Even those that tend not to do very well attract some kind of an advance . |
| 3 | Normality ratings did not clearly support this position . |
| 4 | Thus the interactions were all things which did not clearly put one of the protagonists in an agent position and the other in a patient position . |
| 5 | They did not particularly want that , but it was foisted upon them . |
| 6 | For herself she was unconcerned , she had never liked the cat , did not particularly like any cats , and found this one obnoxiously self-centred and cold . |
| 7 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 8 | This did not automatically lead all in influential circles to conclude that there was a need for provision for the poor by the state . |
| 9 | Unlike Britain and France , where profits were leaked abroad to colonial landholdings and estates , and where profits did not automatically become industrial investments , Germany had been forced to embark on a series of massive and successive re-investment programmes and re-equipment drives . |
| 10 | If I did not already have these , I would probably stock a few Congo Tetras to liven up the surface layers , which would also be more in keeping with the African origins of the Synodontis . |
| 11 | Secondly , they were treating babies as not yet formed adults since their nervous system did not yet contain all the adult structures which they imagined , without any evidence , would be necessary before one could have an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 12 | Economists said trade figures did not yet reflect much of the yen 's recent rise against the dollar but the effect of the yen 's rise could figure in the March and April trade figures . |
| 13 | But they did not yet feel able to go through with changes in their actual behaviour . |
| 14 | The proposal did not yet have concrete facts to back it up . |
| 15 | Life tenure did not however give complete and uniform security . |
| 16 | This did not however make sufficient difference for the system to be feasible . |
| 17 | This alternative submission did not however occupy much time in argument before your Lordships . |
| 18 | This did not however imply that recovery would follow in every case where a mistake had been shown to exist : ‘ If the defendant can show that the payment was made in settlement of an honest claim , or that he has changed his position as a result of the enrichment , then restitution will be denied . ’ |
| 19 | At some later date he abandoned all his offices and journeyed to the Hijaz ( which journey both Mecdi and el-Kefevi have taken to be for the purpose of going on the pilgrimage ) ; alter his return he did not again hold any office . |
| 20 | He did not like that leaded panes rarely featured here ; nor that , instead of hinges , they had a sash-and-pulley arrangement , meaning the windows did not easily stay open . |
| 21 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 22 | Despite the widespread incorporation of the systems approach into branches of physical geography and its increasing use as a framework for textbook structures , some disillusionment has occurred , possibly because the systems approach did not immediately offer all that was at first hoped . |
| 23 | Heisenberg did not immediately appreciate this last point and in the first draft of his paper it was not considered . |
| 24 | The higher age did not immediately become compulsory , due to the strain it would have placed upon the economy of working-class families . |
| 25 | had no part in these negotiations and did not immediately become aware of their outcome . |
| 26 | Also , while eating more healthily , they did not completely restrict favourite foods . |
| 27 | A good example that pre-ponderance of state monopoly did not completely suppress any form of competition is a provision of the Hungarian Civil Code ( S. 4(2) ) prohibiting ‘ unfair economic activities , in particular abuse of superior economic power , the misleading of consumers or imposing unfair prices ’ . |
| 28 | " There was something I forgot to mention to you earlier , " said the Padre , who did not normally favour such a blunt approach but felt that given the state of his health there might not be any time to lose … |
| 29 | He made few friends ; he joined few clubs or societies , and after being elected to the college debating society was asked to resign because he never spoke ; he did not even spend much money . |
| 30 | It was no wonder that in the late Seventies , when Americans were beginning to query whether they were carrying out too many coronary by-passes , Britain 's health correspondents were reporting that many people did not even know such life savers existed . |