Example sentences of "do not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were often talked about but not sung about : 'We do not sing about such things . |
| 2 | Chaffinches do not sing at this time , but memorize the sound of adult chaffinches . |
| 3 | True , essential oils do not smell like commercial , highly synthetic formulae ; but once weaned onto naturals and drawn into the healing aura of essential oils , you will never again fall for the charms of the latest ‘ Henry ’ or crave a fix of ‘ Venom ’ nor even be allured by an ‘ Evening in Paradise ’ ! |
| 4 | As Spence ( 1975 ) says , " the firm , in large part , consists of non-market institutions whose function is to deal with resource allocation in the presence of informational constraints that markets handle poorly or do not handle at all " ( p. 164 ) . |
| 5 | If legal theories do not speak with one voice the contribution of legal theory will very much depend upon which legal theory is chosen . |
| 6 | When his wife ( Pat Heywood ) meets him at John o' Groats , they do not speak at all or , if they do , we can not hear them as if they were already far away . |
| 7 | The plants lumped together under the umbrella name of herbs do not appear at first glance to be essential to maintain life , but it is now becoming apparent that this concept could be wrong , and that herbs are as necessary as oxygen , though the ingredients they contribute , such as minerals and vitamins , may only be found in minute quantities . |
| 8 | The most extremely backed variants do not appear at all in outer-city speech . |
| 9 | In the theoretical year of life , shelled fossils do not appear until early November . |
| 10 | The stout , middle-aged men in black glasses do not appear until ten o'clock , with brief-cases or small leather bags . |
| 11 | HRT is also of benefit for the intermediate symptoms of the menopause , those that do not appear until some time after periods have stopped but which tend to get more noticeable and troublesome as the years go by . |
| 12 | The words which do not appear in other lists fall into several important groups : signs relevant to deaf culture , signs which might be subject to borrowing by languages in contact , signs where compounding is likely to occur , number and colour terms . |
| 13 | These verses do not appear in all early manuscripts and there is some doubt as to whether they were originally part of Luke 's Gospel . ) |
| 14 | It is not possible simply to dispense with such tests , because there are occasions , especially when dealing with highly context-bound readings which do not appear in ambiguous sentences , when they are the only practicable way of diagnosing ambiguity . |
| 15 | We have no regional offices , and do not appear in any local telephone books ; publicity material like the leaflets have HQ address on them and so many people making contact with CPRW for the first time , no matter where they live , come first to us . |
| 16 | However , this method should only be used in the circumstances described , for the following reason : since it is assumed that such files are not readable , they do not appear in any of the Quality Assurance processes or in hard copy outputs showing module contents . |
| 17 | Sadly but excusably , it misses perfection : the elements do not appear in proper periodic order . |
| 18 | WARS in the Middle East do not finish after six days any more . |
| 19 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 20 | Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university . |
| 21 | If you have fractured a bone or fallen and damaged your back , do not move at all , you could make it worse . |
| 22 | ‘ Do not move at all ! ’ |
| 23 | As Martin ( 1983 , p. 22 ) suggests : ‘ When full-time working women become unemployed they do not move from one role to another , they simply lose one — like men . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It is a matter of policy that we do not comment on any private correspondence which has been sent to the national secretary . ’ |
| 25 | A spokesman for the British Army of the Rhine would not confirm or deny whether the documents were genuine , saying yesterday : ‘ We do not comment about these matters . ’ |
| 26 | I do not conclude from this that Britain should leave the EEC . |
| 27 | These result largely from its use in patients who either do not benefit at all or who derive only temporary improvement or whose rescue leaves them more severely disabled than they were . |
| 28 | Part-time workers who work only a very few hours do not benefit from many of the forms of employment protection introduced by legislation over the last decade or so , although those part-time workers who work at least half the usual hours are covered on some items . |
| 29 | In addition , we have observed that a well characterised group of patients do not benefit from endoscopic therapy . |
| 30 | Thus Regulation 418/85 provides exemption for R&D agreements from the effects of Article 85 , making it clear that exemptions only apply to agreements that do not extend to joint marketing and selling . |