Example sentences of "do not [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baptismal , confirmation , membership and communicant figures do not tell the whole story . |
| 2 | In some countries , national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength . |
| 3 | Your books do not tell the whole story . |
| 4 | Simple numbers , however , do not tell the whole story . |
| 5 | These brief wakenings do not prevent a similar total quantity of sleep to younger men and women , since we tend to stay in bed slightly longer as we get older . |
| 6 | During this spare time you can catch up on lost sleep ( as long as your naps do not prevent a full night 's sleep ) , relax after the stresses of the journey , adjust drinking and eating habits , and generally adapt to your new surroundings . |
| 7 | It is important to banks that accounting guidelines do not prevent the efficient financing of loans . |
| 8 | As between themselves , the purchaser and the vendor are bound under the terms of the sale agreement by the decisions of the expert , but the provisions in the sale agreement do not prevent the aggrieved party , whether it be the purchaser or the vendor , from attempting to bring a claim against the expert if it can be shown that such party has suffered loss under the normal principles of the law of negligence ( see Arenson v Casson Bechman Rutley & Co [ 1977 ] AC 405 ) . |
| 9 | In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors . |
| 10 | These arbitrators are experts in the non-legal sense of the word , and they do not perform a judicial function . |
| 11 | However , even if it is accepted that treaties do not perform a single function and should not all be subject to the same rules , there remains the threshold question of how treaties are best conceptualised and categorised . |
| 12 | One should not therefore underestimate the importance of neighbourhood to such old people , even if neighbours do not perform the same functions as in ‘ the old days ’ . |
| 13 | The mass of working people , as they liberate themselves from the bourgeois yoke , will gravitate irresistibly towards us … provided yesterday 's oppressions do not infringe the long oppressed nation 's highly developed democratic feeling of self-respect and provided they are granted equality in everything . |
| 14 | We do not speak the same language . ’ |
| 15 | Not only is there a division among the English , the Scottish , and the Welsh ; there is also a division between Gaelic-speaking Scots and those who do not speak Gaelic , and between those who do and do not speak the Welsh language in Wales . |
| 16 | Do not grieve the Holy Spirit with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption . |
| 17 | But they do not examine the institutional reasons for low black attainment , or study ‘ race ’ as a social category , and so they often fall into a biologically founded account of absolute ‘ race ’ differences . |
| 18 | When Rebekah , Potiphar 's wife , or Tamar uses a piece of attire for their own personal ends , they do not create a gratuitous disturbance in the order of things . |
| 19 | Do not wear a personal stereo headset so that you are unaware if someone comes up behind you . |
| 20 | It is not only your life which is at risk if you do not wear an available seat belt . |
| 21 | If you do not wear an available seat belt , you are liable to a fixed penalty or a fine if the case goes to court . |
| 22 | ‘ the layman may well wonder why we do not consult the Parliamentary Debates , for we are much more likely to find the intention of Parliament there than anywhere else . |
| 23 | Thus they do not confront the usual sources of public misunderstanding . |
| 24 | The West 's new weapons do not represent a new dimension in warfare ; rather , they continue the strategy that has kept the peace in Europe for 40 years |
| 25 | They do not represent a complete list of the ‘ traditions ’ in English curricula nor are they timeless entities ; they simply represent three clear constellations of curriculum styles which recur in the history of the school subjects under study . |
| 26 | Thus , even if inquiry is a goal-directed activity , the goals in terms of which it is directed do not represent a substantive conception of the ‘ end ’ to which the process tends . |
| 27 | Horse and mare in 16a and b do not represent a genuine but contextually restricted form of synonymy : their semantic distinctness remains , and can easily be made manifest . |
| 28 | Many congenital abnormalities can be prevented , but as they do not represent a single pathological category there is no single strategy for their prevention . |
| 29 | If British Rail builds a railway line in South Wales by employing construction workers who would otherwise have been unemployed , the cost includes the wages of construction workers , but these do not represent a social cost if they would not otherwise have produced any goods . |
| 30 | A final bit of evidence that the modals do not represent the bare infinitive 's event as subsequent to their own event comes from certain observations about the contrast between will and be going to made by Palmer ( 1988 : 148 ) . |