Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report of the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee in April 1992 noted that ‘ most companies do no more than comply with the very limited disclosure requirements of SSAP 13 and some do not even do that . |
| 2 | However , wearing armour prevents a Mage casting spells , so they do not normally do so . |
| 3 | However , if Wizards wear armour they are unable to cast spells , so they do not normally do so . |
| 4 | But after persistently arguing that big ‘ named ’ firms do not automatically do a better job , he feels that the firm is finally beginning to make headway . |
| 5 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 6 | At Faringdon 's , the singers stood on chairs but I do not usually do this if I sing the song with children . |
| 7 | This is not the place to enter into a detailed discussion of different electoral systems and their advantages and disadvantages ; but it should be noted that those who oppose the general principle of proportional representation do not usually do so in terms of arguments about democracy and representation , but more often stress the need for strong and stable government . |
| 8 | You will write more rapidly If you join as many letters as possible , so try using looped tails on your letters even If this is something you do not always do when writing . |
| 9 | The fact is , however , that we do not always do so . |
| 10 | Even where there is general agreement on the need to ease state control of their energy industries , Latin countries do not always do so . |
| 11 | However States do not always do this and there can also be uncertainty with respect to individual provisions which can be in force as between some parties but not others . |
| 12 | Public trading organizations , the nationalized industries , should , in theory , cover their own costs , but do not always do so . |
| 13 | They deserve to be listed in this context , as they often operate in unison even if they do not always do so . |
| 14 | Although people do not always do what they say they do , where there is a mismatch between what they do and say , we can assume that there is some reason for this . |
| 15 | These stages relate to the spiritual exercises which embrace reading of scripture ( lectio ) , meditation ( meditatio ) , prayer and contemplation although those who use this terminology do not always do so in a precisely similar denotative way . |
| 16 | We have to repair the damage in a way erm but it does n't mean to say we do n't not do it with our children now . |
| 17 | I am not I bet they do n't neither do I . |
| 18 | If someone has difficulty in dressing , make it easier with one or more aids for dressing — do n't just do everything for them . |
| 19 | This is why we have instituted imaginative reforms of education , of health , of the legal profession , of social security , and of other crucial areas of our national life — so that we do n't just do more , but also do better . |
| 20 | I do n't just do old men any more . |
| 21 | Do n't just do what you normally do . |
| 22 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 23 | erm And I 'm very much looking forward to that , on Wednesday I 'm coming and we 're having a promotions day when we 'll let everyone know what we 're doing ; when it 's going to be , where it 's going to be held , and erm give two hundred youngsters the opportunity to try erm the various sports , we do n't just do football now either , we do lots of other sports . |
| 24 | I got into bed , and I was really nice and warm , and I was lying back , I do n't really like to lie back when I 'm doing something , I like to sit up in bed , I do n't generally do work in bed . |
| 25 | Small businesses now do n't anyway do they ? |
| 26 | Mind you , kids do n't anyway do they ? |
| 27 | We do n't anyway do we ? |
| 28 | ‘ People who say a lot do n't normally do a lot . |
| 29 | Okay you could drive with the hand brake on but you do n't normally do that . |
| 30 | I 'm all for loud singing and opposition-baiting at matches and other times , but I do n't normally Do The Dambusters , or worse still the ‘ who 's that dying on the runway ’ stuff . |