Example sentences of "do not [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he he he was a sinful person , as we all are erm , I think he did not as the way I understand it , you know Jesus came perfect in everything but he had a he had a a message to give and he could give it better , I think because he had experienced so many things . |
| 2 | The classical way Agatha Christie ( who did not on the whole write humorous crime stories ) managed this often will give you an idea of what to aim for . |
| 3 | However , a new problem arises — that of selection due to differential recruitment of those receiving or not receiving X. For example if , after a TV programme on violence in society , we sample to compare the opinions of those who watched it with those who did not on the question of bringing back corporal punishment , can we assume that the subpopulations of watchers and non-watchers are otherwise similar ? |
| 4 | Foaled in 1975 and humbly bred , John Henry changed hands three times before reaching Dot and Sam Rubin 's Dotsam Stables ( Sam Rubin bought the horse unseen over the phone , and did not at the time know that his new purchase was a gelding ) . |
| 5 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 6 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 7 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 8 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 9 | Medieval society also contained a large and growing number of professional warriors and churchmen , ‘ those who fought and those who prayed ’ , who did not till the soil , or engage in any normal form of economic activity . |
| 10 | Even with delays while the Office of Fair Trading considered whether to refer these takeovers to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( it did not in the end ) the whole process had taken only until the spring of 1991 . |
| 11 | Those who knew Hebrew took significantly less time to sort the pack than those who did not in the condition that required symbols having the same name to be put together . |
| 12 | Rufus did not in the least care about the moral issue , but the subject itself interested him . |
| 13 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 14 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |
| 15 | It was held that the exemption clause did not in the circumstances pass the test of reasonableness and that therefore their sellers could not rely upon it to limit their liability . |
| 16 | Whether or not he had sent the article back ( if it had been rejected ) did not in the least matter . |
| 17 | They did not in the measures involving the five guillotines which I introduced . |
| 18 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 19 | ( Nevertheless , there were some interesting differences between the group who felt that they had a ‘ training officer ’ and those who did not amongst the CRUS sample , further discussed in Chapter 5 . ) |
| 20 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 21 | They do not for the most part take a position like that of Boas and Evans-Pritchard which rejects the very notion that there are general laws governing human history ; and if they do not , it would seem that they too are driving , however cautiously , towards an understanding of human history in general , in other words toward a theory of human evolution . |
| 22 | But our sources do not for the most part interest themselves in times of peace — the impression from Diodorus ' own narrative is that Dionysius did little but fight wars against Carthage ; but Carthaginian aggressiveness , like Persian , was exaggerated by ‘ crusading ’ Greek historiography and poetry . |
| 23 | Indeed these three banks have special opportunities for widening the credit horizon of people who do not at the moment have bank accounts . |
| 24 | And , further , in areas like Easton , where there is very little crime related to the troubles , the police do not on the whole develop the attitude that law and order is a battle between the RUC and Catholics . |
| 25 | They do not on the whole deny a male bias in conventional English , but they pretend to object to change on purely linguistic grounds — for instance that one should not tamper with grammar , that nonsexist forms are unaesthetic or even , as a last resort , that willed changes in language destroy freedom of thought and usher in totalitarianism . |
| 26 | In direct percentage terms , school books do not on the whole reproduce current gender reality , let alone encourage flexible orientations regarding future career and role planning . |
| 27 | Wells concludes that " adolescents and adults , faced with a new linguistic environment , can adapt their speech to a certain extent by modifying the phonetic realisation of their phonemes ; but they do not on the whole succeed in acquiring new phonological oppositions or in altering the distributional constraints on their phonology " ( Wells 1973 : 118 ) . |
| 28 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 29 | The point seems to be that " knowing or believing " are simple words which do not in the ordinary run of things require an explanation . |
| 30 | Not forgotten is the possibility that some mergers do not in the event prove successful so that expansion rapidly becomes contraction . |