Example sentences of "do not normally [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We take particular care when approached for facilities by young people and do not normally lend to minors .
2 This makes it a unique medium for chemical reactions , bringing together substances that do not normally dissolve in the same liquid .
3 Certainly platelets do not normally adhere to arterial endothelium if it is not damaged but the explanation for this antithrombotic property of intact endothelium remains obscure .
4 The vast flocks of gulls at rubbish tips do not normally compete for food resources with other birds , but black-headed gulls do sometimes take advantage of other species ' food-finding skills .
5 Therefore , in an unexpected contrast with the uplands , informal recreation sites in the urban fringe do not normally suffer from recreational over-use .
6 Researchers do not normally look to accountants when seeking support for the imaginative leaps which have characterised the most major advances in science .
7 We can quickly find , by taking the examples of associative adjectives in Chapter 2 , that these do not normally occur after their noun either .
8 By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position .
9 Provided that the relevant conditions are met ( see below ) , a firm can treat the following as market counterparties : ( 1 ) Other members of SFA ( in relation to any investments , even if they do not normally deal in them ) ; ( 2 ) Trading members of investment exchanges ( in relation to investments of the kind traded on the exchange , even if they do not themselves normally deal in them , and related derivatives ) .
10 Their wings do not normally come into contact , but even so there are problems when the dragonfly executes sharp turns .
11 Non-pelagic species , which do not normally come into direct contact with ice , appear to avoid freezing simply by supercooling ; their fluids remain ice-free even 1–2°C below freezing point .
12 Secondly , because of the very great power which the government can wield over its citizens , the law has traditionally imposed on governmental agencies special duties of procedural fairness ( embodied in the rules of natural justice discussed in Chapter 8 ) which do not normally apply to dealings between private citizens .
13 and they do n't normally give to anywhere , because nobody ever asks .
14 Do n't normally go for Indian much actually do we ?
15 Well they do n't normally go till about nine anyway well they ca n't cos the post office do n't open till do you want a coffee ?
16 They do n't normally appear until mid February .
17 ‘ We do n't normally bother about flowers on the table , ’ he muttered .
18 We do n't normally think of them as being anxious , but simply as being hard to catch , too nervous to ride , or unreliable in competition .
19 I think that 's the reason you enjoy it , because you can explain most things , most things you do n't normally think of .
20 The nice boys do n't normally talk to me . ’
21 ‘ People do n't normally talk about science on that show .
22 Do n't be grandiose , banal or over-personal , and do n't normally end with a quotation from someone else ( see pp. 95 – 7 ) .
23 ‘ I do n't normally drink with strangers , ’ she remarked .
24 Then , ‘ I do n't normally generalise about women , but your behaviour , ’ he told her , ‘ has n't done anything to convince me that you 're any different . ’
25 ‘ I do n't normally approve of loans , unless I 'm lending , of course , but sometimes they 're the answer . ’
26 Except that Ministers do n't normally look as if they had n't slept all night .
27 erm We have n't as yet , erm the problem is I do n't normally deal with the sub- committee , the person that 's that should be dealing with it is not here today , so I 've been unable to track down a copy of this letter .
28 They do things that you do n't normally get from average places
29 I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ?
30 Why do n't you sponsor you know , members who do n't normally come to meetings , to sponsor erm a site for
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