Example sentences of "do not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not tell any about me nor anyone except father and possibly Frank , write at once if you are going to . |
| 2 | Unless you want to be force-fed stale angel cakes until you weigh 73 stones , do not tell these jokes at your Aunty 's . |
| 3 | come up to get her , do not tell another lie any more . |
| 4 | Screening tests which identify the presence of mental handicap in the unborn child do not prevent mental handicap , because the handicap is already present . |
| 5 | While the rules do not prevent this , Home Officer Circular 48/1991 , para 58 makes it clear that such an arrangement involves unnecessary duplication and should only be allowed in exceptional circumstances . |
| 6 | The columns and capitals are from different buildings and do not match one another . |
| 7 | Well so much for the sea surface temperatures of the past , but we 've been looking at our records of the compounds in the sediments even more carefully and what we 've seen in there are molecular fingerprints which do not match those of the marine organisms . |
| 8 | Bourque and Grossholtz ( 1984 ) argue that the acceptance of ‘ masculinity as ideal political behaviour ’ has dire consequences for studying women : the unquestioned assumption that the political attitudes , behaviour and preferences of men define mature political behaviour means that when women do not match these they are said to be either apolitical or politically naive . |
| 9 | The District Council considers that the objection sites do not perform any of the greenbelt functions . |
| 10 | Many teachers from the south of Nigeria were employed and they do not speak good Hausa . |
| 11 | Many of my informants felt that the use of 'JC' features is stereotyped and that these British adolescents do not speak 'real Jamaican . ' |
| 12 | Alternative solutions to the problem such as strengthening the floors , do not appear practical . |
| 13 | The amytal data do not appear helpful in this context . |
| 14 | Yet the major lines of conflict and political mobilization evident in liberal democracies often do not appear class-based . |
| 15 | The basic trouble is that this is another example of approaching a situation whereby government ministers , for one reason or another , do not appear enthusiastic about using their powers . |
| 16 | Patients sometimes make demands on a therapist which exceed what can reasonably be expected of a therapeutic relationship and which do not appear likely to help solve their problems . |
| 17 | For example , in the San Carlos district , of the children who begin first grade , 95 per cent do not finish secondary school . |
| 18 | Strangely , they do not examine these reasons , although the level of feminine domesticity is a crucial link in their argument about the existence of close-knit kinship networks in working-class communities . |
| 19 | The police do not create social deprivation , though unimaginative , inflexible policing can make the tensions which deprivation engenders greatly worse . |
| 20 | ‘ Decisions , are binding but specific to the named parties concerned whilst ‘ recommendations ’ , as the name suggests , do not create binding obligations . |
| 21 | These dark red molecules do not absorb far-red light , however , and the piranha 's far-red shifted vision allows its eyes to pierce the gloom . |
| 22 | There is evidence that at times of stress many patients do not absorb verbal information and that a better quality of informed consent can be obtained by combining oral and written information as we did . |
| 23 | Because potatoes do not absorb radioactive nucleotides , they are one of the few crops that could be grown safely in the heavily contaminated soils around Chernobyl . |
| 24 | Some people who have become severely deafened do not wear rubber soles on their shoes because they can only feel the vibration through the floor when wearing leather soles . |
| 25 | Do not wear excessive jewellery , especially if it is the sort which jangles . |
| 26 | Most organisations do not lend 100 per cent of the purchase price on old properties . |
| 27 | DO NOT START ANY WORK UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS APPROVAL . |
| 28 | ’ Do not start any work until you have received written approval . ’ |
| 29 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 30 | Tell me there are a few men , somewhere , who do not think such dreadful thoughts , do not commit such unspeakable deeds . |