Example sentences of "do not [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 2 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 3 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
| 4 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
| 5 | The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more . |
| 6 | Paint and varnish slow down moisture changes in wood but they do not prevent them for no paint is impermeable to water vapour . |
| 7 | Furthermore , teaching Portuguese in primary school to children who do not speak it at home further isolates school experience from that of the home . |
| 8 | ( iii ) It is important that pupils working towards level 7 and beyond have increasing opportunities to use spoken Standard English , and in particular that those who do not speak it as a native dialect should be helped to extend their language competence so that they can use Standard English with confidence . |
| 9 | Do not wear lots of obvious jewellery when you are out . |
| 10 | On my board , it is easy to put this on and remove it , so the girls do not ruin it for me ! |
| 11 | Some problems do not lend themselves to financial solutions . |
| 12 | But the hills remain , for these mountain ranges of southern Greece do not lend themselves to the blandishments of the travel brochure . |
| 13 | The clay soils of many farms north of the Downs , for example , do not lend themselves to intensive arable farming , and few farms here ( or , for that matter , fields ) are far from woodlands so that they are not wholly dependent on such features as patches of scrub or hedges for the presence of many common farmland species . |
| 14 | Death is always a failure in hospital , and the business and routine of life in the medical and surgical wards do not lend themselves to a personal death ( Sudnow 1967 ) . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , other forms of assessment do not lend themselves to precise measures of test-retest reliability and the clinician may need to judge how far situational factors might have influenced the two assessments . |
| 16 | The ‘ open cup ’ principle holds good for most types — there are just two or three growth habits like Bourbons and Musks that do not lend themselves to it too well , and we will deal with them later . |
| 17 | The terms deregulation and reregulation do not lend themselves to easy definition . |
| 18 | It is not , however , ideal as a general methodology for lexical semantics : it is far too cumbersome , many areas of meaning do not lend themselves to illustration in this fashion and , in any case , production only taps active competence . |
| 19 | ( 1981 ) , who are able to alter the appearance of their homes , tend not to use modernist styles , which , in any case , do not lend themselves to such appropriation . |
| 20 | It is an area of special problems which do not lend themselves to being handled easily by familiar logico-linguistic techniques and require a different type of treatment . |
| 21 | In sparring , this is not such a good idea , since the techniques do not lend themselves to repetitive actions . |
| 22 | The windows are richly dressed , though they do not lend themselves to the Kensington approach ; as with Thins , the interior has been face-lifted and made warmly welcoming . |
| 23 | So do strong aggressive animals which are well able to protect their babies even if they do not deposit them in a den deep underground . |
| 24 | This is a good time to be thinking about wedding arrangements , but do not commit yourself to anything until July is past . |
| 25 | When you begin to interpret documents , do not commit yourself to definite statements . |
| 26 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 27 | Of course none of this will happen if European electronics companies do not commit themselves to the manufacture and use of flat panel displays . |
| 28 | If we do not commit ourselves to our world-wide lost neighbours , then we do not care about them . |
| 29 | The dissociation further implies that rats can detect relative spatial proximity even under circumstances in which they do not represent it in memory . |
| 30 | In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration ! |