Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not tell the story , he wrote . |
| 2 | If its investigation gives credence to the theory that people do not tell the truth to market researchers , the industry has a problem . |
| 3 | Baptismal , confirmation , membership and communicant figures do not tell the whole story . |
| 4 | And … do not tell the Earl Patrick ! ’ |
| 5 | In some countries , national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength . |
| 6 | Do not tell the police we have made contact . |
| 7 | And do not tell the General yet of the loss of his wife or children . |
| 8 | Your books do not tell the whole story . |
| 9 | Simple numbers , however , do not tell the whole story . |
| 10 | Unless started very early in the course of the disease , antibiotics do not prevent the development of abscesses and can sometimes just delay their development . |
| 11 | However , both these situations do not prevent the development of a euro-market in the currency concerned , providing it is fully convertible for non-residents of those countries and is deposited in a bank outside of their national boundaries . |
| 12 | But the fact remains that the safeguards themselves do not prevent the government using civil plutonium for defence purposes . |
| 13 | It is important to banks that accounting guidelines do not prevent the efficient financing of loans . |
| 14 | The principles in relation to the taxation of costs after a trial do not prevent the parties reaching their own agreement about costs where a settlement is effected before trial . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | These principles do not prevent the parties from defining the expiration of the term by reference to a date before that of execution of the lease , or from making contractual provisions which take effect by reference to such a date , as by defining the period for the operation of a break-clause or an increase of rent . |
| 17 | Before considering the automatic directions , it is as well to remember that ( although they will be sufficient in most instances ) they are only the bare bones of the directions the parties may need in a personal injury case , and do not prevent the parties seeking any further directions they may need under Ord 25 whether set out in PF51 or not . |
| 18 | The rules do not prevent the use of extrinsic evidence in interpreting genuine ambiguities in the words of the contract . |
| 19 | There is , though , one large disadvantage that became much discussed in the eighties : standard-class seats do not match the window spacing . |
| 20 | The written sources are almost silent about the subject of internal trade , just as the details of overseas trade do not match the volume of archaeological evidence . |
| 21 | In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors . |
| 22 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We do not speak the same language . ’ |
| 26 | They question conventional wisdom , they ask awkward questions , they do not speak the jargon . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Do not grieve the Holy Spirit with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption . |
| 29 | God has set the seed of his Spirit in our hearts and intends to produce in us a crop of lovely qualities of character if we do not grieve the Spirit ( Eph. 4:30 ) by wilful disobedience or neglect . |
| 30 | 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 . |