Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cryptically he said , ‘ I shall be coming back to Rangoon and if conditions do not worsen so unexpectedly I hope to meet you again . ’ |
| 2 | Hard wheats are easily milled into white flour ; soft wheats do not separate so easily . |
| 3 | They do not interact so very much . |
| 4 | Living things also employ and contain plenty of other carbon-based materials that do not fit so easily into these neat compartments . |
| 5 | But there are cases , when the demands of the four maxims do not fit so happily together . |
| 6 | The fact that there may be others in society who do not do so well need not even occur to the individual . |
| 7 | It has been argued , for a long time now , that the reason girls do not do so well at mathematics is that females , from at least adolescence onwards , have poorer spatial visualisation ability than males . |
| 8 | For example , by the third sub-maxim of Manner ( " be brief " ) , wherever I avoid some simple expression in favour of some more complex paraphrase , it may be assumed that I do not do so wantonly , but because the details are somehow relevant to the present enterprise . |
| 9 | Such theories at least attempt to cope with the reality of the female presence , even if they do not do so accurately . |
| 10 | However , they do not do so directly , as earlier writers in the ‘ great divide ’ tradition did . |
| 11 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 12 | If presented as a guide , not a rule book , and project leaders are free to reject any of its provisions , they do not do so irresponsibly . |
| 13 | In very general terms , Marxist theorists look for the location of power in the wider social and economic structure of society There is continuing debate within Marxism over the exact role that the state ( or political level ) fulfils and whether it has any significant independence from the requirements of the owners of the means of production and the preservation of the system of capital accumulation In the long term , however , Marxists argue that the scope for human beings to choose freely and to shape their society as they wish is severely circumscribed by the private ownership of the means of production , the necessity of the state to respond to the crises and problems generated by capitalism as an economic system and the inequality of competition between different ideologies Elite theories do not go so far in limiting the scope for individuals to choose or to shape their societies They argue that individuals can choose , subjectively , to join , to maintain or to challenge the structure of power which exists . |
| 14 | Most recent historians would agree that the Hammonds were much too reluctant to accept that there was even serious talk of revolution , although the majority do not go so far as Thompson in their assessment of the seriousness of the threat . |
| 15 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 16 | The other algorithms presented above do not suffer so seriously from this problem because they can all examine alternative paths for several steps . |
| 17 | People who do not care so long as the passing hour is comfortable and cheerful are not likely to exhibit much of a front when they call themselves a union . |
| 18 | You do not look so well either . ’ |
| 19 | The males of species that are polygynous ( in which successful males may mate with many females during a single breeding season ) have larger antlers or teeth than the males of similar size from monogamous species , which do not fight so hard for mates . |
| 20 | Protein molecules do not behave so equivocally . |
| 21 | Common turnips are quicker growing than mangolds or swedes , but are not frost-resistant and do not keep so well in a clamp . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't go so fast . |
| 23 | Now I do n't paint so fashionably , but I still sell . |
| 24 | I do n't think so either |
| 25 | No , I do n't think so either . |
| 26 | I do n't think so somehow ! |
| 27 | I do n't think so somehow . |
| 28 | I do n't think so somehow . |
| 29 | Do n't know , no I do n't think so somehow Mark |
| 30 | I do n't think so somehow . |