Example sentences of "do not on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | We do n't on the whole mind the isolation until something happens to rock the applecart — a death , a loss , a crisis . |
| 6 | Do n't on the plate then . |
| 7 | You do n't on the book . |