Example sentences of "do not [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some problems do not lend themselves to financial solutions . |
| 2 | But the hills remain , for these mountain ranges of southern Greece do not lend themselves to the blandishments of the travel brochure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The terms deregulation and reregulation do not lend themselves to easy definition . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In sparring , this is not such a good idea , since the techniques do not lend themselves to repetitive actions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is a good time to be thinking about wedding arrangements , but do not commit yourself to anything until July is past . |
| 14 | When you begin to interpret documents , do not commit yourself to definite statements . |
| 15 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 16 | Of course none of this will happen if European electronics companies do not commit themselves to the manufacture and use of flat panel displays . |
| 17 | If we do not commit ourselves to our world-wide lost neighbours , then we do not care about them . |
| 18 | I do not pretend myself to be a democrat . |
| 19 | If words or phrases are used which do not mean anything to you ask to have them explained to you in layman 's terms . |
| 20 | If we baldly declare the Bible world-picture and do not interpret it to the modern world in such a way as to make it intelligible , we are useless . |
| 21 | Trace the outlines on to greaseproof or tracing paper , and fix a piece of waxed paper on top of this , securing firmly at the edges — this double layer is so that pencil marks do not attach themselves to the icing and discolour it . |
| 22 | You will soon be well , if I do not talk you to death . |
| 23 | You would be well advised to consider the local Bar , particularly ( though not only ) if you do not feel yourself to be of outstanding ability . |
| 24 | Women often feel that they are not at risk because they do not feel themselves to be associated with any of the so called ‘ high risk groups ’ and , although we are encouraged to have safer sex , AIDS does not really seem to be an issue for us . |
| 25 | ‘ That woman dotes on Felipe — but do not mention it to him , ’ she added hastily . |
| 26 | This is a matter of personal conscience and what every member in the council chamber today must be aware of , is that there is a vociferous and committed group of people we know that because we 've all had a great deal of communication from them and interestingly enough I have and most of the communication I 've had has been in favour so victory , people who write must be extremely perceptive in , with er marketing the that 's not the point , we all know that there is a committed and vociferous group of people whose consciences do not lead them to the same conclusions as Mr 's conscience and the issue really is , do we in a liberal and democratic society have the right to impose our consciences on those of other people who live in the community and quite clearly and quite determinedly take a different view . |
| 27 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 28 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 29 | Please do not abbreviate it to NT , ’ the company is pleading in its literature . |
| 30 | Please do not abbreviate it to NT , ’ the company pleads in its literature . |