Example sentences of "do not [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There was insufficient recognition that some of the voluntary organisations who helped with the plans do not adequately consult disabled people .
2 Your suspects are likely to be opposed to one another in different ways ( if they are not , you have chosen people who do not adequately reflect different aspects of your theme ) and if they are opposed it is not unlikely that they will quarrel , again about your theme .
3 First , the department has a role at the executive-director level by being present at the board 's review of the plans from the business units and by highlighting where these plans do not adequately address certain strategic issues .
4 In this instance , I do not particularly welcome this debate , because I regret having to make these points tonight in this way .
5 Many do not successfully complete this journey as anemones are often a limited resource on the reef and most of the fry are eaten by predators before they can reach protection .
6 Nowadays , people do not just feel guilty over causing hurt .
7 And she thought , guiltily , I do not even feel guilty .
8 But in the 1990s many citizens , particularly among the English ( who tend to be less conscious of their ‘ Englishness ’ than the Scots and Welsh are of their national identities ) , do not even feel British : it has been commented that the British lost their sense of identity along with their empire and have not yet found another identity .
9 A report of the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee in April 1992 noted that ‘ most companies do no more than comply with the very limited disclosure requirements of SSAP 13 and some do not even do that .
10 Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders .
11 It can be hard to combine parental authority with a friendship that implies equality , and some girls do not even want this .
12 It would seem that your general behaviour and sense of discipline has become so lax and sloppy that you do not even remember serious breaches of conduct .
13 Worse still , the results do not even provide compelling evidence that intensive intervention on its own actually reduces the frequency of coronary disease anywhere in the world .
14 Within minutes by car or bus , are characteristic Mittelland areas of great charm and interest that are not only off the beaten track but do not even receive passing mention in standard English-language guide books .
15 The United Kingdom does not reprocess nuclear waste ; we do not even import nuclear waste .
16 Similarly , most villages today do not qualify by these standards — most are suburban or retirement centres , not more than half a dozen practise communal agriculture , and most do not even have working farms in them .
17 They do not even have lower costs .
18 Senior political figures do not even acknowledge that torture exists , let alone accept that it is a widespread and routine event .
19 Such a correspondence would ensure that no political party exercises undue influence and control over the means of communication or that the means of communication do not overwhelmingly support one political party .
20 On the other hand , as islands are ( by definition ) separated from other land , and in particular are cut off from continents , they tend each to evolve their own particular sub-species , at least of creatures that do not easily cross open sea .
21 thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them .
22 Manualists , nevertheless , do not generally advocate exclusive reliance on manual communication , but favour the " combined system " , known in modern times as " total communication " .
23 Such an approach brings into consideration a number of issues which do not generally receive much attention in the formal linguist 's description of sentential syntax and semantics .
24 Debbie Jones , who co-ordinated the SSD 's response , describes the forms as a blunt instrument which do not properly measure disabled children 's progress .
25 Major groups do not simply obliterate other major groups by competition ; rather do they radiate into the adaptive zones after the previous dominant group has become extinct .
26 The structures common to society as a whole ( especially the structure of language ) do not simply constrain alternative values and ways of life .
27 If you drive a car and do not already use unleaded petrol , the guidelines below will indicate how to adjust and make the change towards cheaper motoring and a cleaner and healthier environment .
28 We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity .
29 These include patients with impaired left ventricular function and spontaneous non-sustained or inducible VT , and those with class II and III heart failure who do not yet require cardiac transplantation .
30 Unfortunately we do not yet have good methods to control the quantity of protein produced , and overproduction could adversely affect normal tissue .
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