Example sentences of "do no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prost , meanwhile , can do no more and the pressure is now with his team-mate to repeat yesterday 's performance . |
| 2 | ‘ It may do no more than further entrench the conspiracy of silence , ’ Armstrong said . |
| 3 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course the traffickers would do no such thing . |
| 5 | But he felt that he could do no other . |
| 6 | Throughout the '60s it seemed Lotus could do no wrong . |
| 7 | The sergeant nodded , deciding it could do no harm to concede a point he had already taken . |
| 8 | After a few more days in Salamanca , during which you and I could do no work in common , your friends left in a great uproar of drunken invective , shouting political slogans — which fortunately were in German — against the Franco regime . |
| 9 | I 'll do no more work today ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He 'll do no such thing , Perkins . |
| 11 | Mr Holbeche suggests the badger is now ludicrously over-protected as a result of lobbying by influential animal welfare and nature conservation groups , so that the public now thinks badgers are nice cuddly creatures which can do no wrong . |
| 12 | It 'll do no harm . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Take your chance and come with me , you 'll do no good stopping here . ’ |
| 14 | But you must understand that , after this , I can do no more . |
| 15 | For many of his supporters he could do no wrong and any semblance of wrong having been done was explained as part of the ecumenical conspiracy to defeat true Protestantism . |
| 16 | The height , whatever , it may be , of the imaginative standard will do no harm ; we are commanded to imitate one who is inimitable . ’ |
| 17 | Adored by kids , Mums , Dads , Grandmums and Grandads alike , she can do no wrong . |
| 18 | As every Kylie can do no wrong . |
| 19 | Many Europeans who have lived under regimes where officialdom can do no wrong would regard the aftermath of My Lai as a triumph of democratic practice . |
| 20 | This weekend it is possible to sense a feeling that they can do no more . |
| 21 | It will do no good to avenge my death by killing him . ’ |
| 22 | It might require them to behave authoritatively , submissively , wickedly or shrewdly ; the role might be labelled explorer , prime minister , designer or archaeologist , but they will do no more than adapt functionally to the situation of the drama just as they would adapt to roles required in a game — just as they once learnt to adapt to the limited number of roles imposed on them in real life . |
| 23 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 24 | The evolution of mammals after the Cretaceous was both extremely rapid and very complex , and we can do no more than give the roughest sketch here . |
| 25 | Knowledge of the details could do no further harm . |
| 26 | Blake was back in Moscow where he could do no more harm . |
| 27 | You must be satisfied that the patient is progressing towards cure according to homœopathic principles : some repetition of an ill chosen remedy may do no harm , because of the brief action of each dose , but persistent use of a superficial remedy may cause harm . |
| 28 | They say here that he will do no more of these questionless immobile heads as his designs begin to set the immobile against the mobile . |
| 29 | The doctor , a man named Champney , realised he could do no more for her but , on hearing of the stranger ( Mary Ashley did not know Tawell , but described him as a Quaker ) , he set out to trace him . |
| 30 | Anne Butler could do no more but return home . |