Example sentences of "[vb mod] not do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What such issues must not do is clog up the wheels : travelling communications must have clarity and cohesion . |
| 2 | What you must NOT do is hold up the edge of the knitting , taking the weight off it , in an attempt to help the linker cast off . |
| 3 | What they must not do is to get in there at half time and think that they have done their job . |
| 4 | What the media should not do is cause friction and division within society and especially it should not encourage opposition or resistance to government decrees . |
| 5 | The one thing you should not do is waste money and risk your fish 's health by treating the tank with chemicals — there is no point unless you know what you are treating . |
| 6 | She stood in front of the mirror and in front of her mother , and she suffered because she knew that there was no escape ; the reasons why the dress would not do were reasons which could never be communicated . |
| 7 | But one thing I shall not do is belittle the wonder of the living " watches " that so inspired Paley . |
| 8 | That this will not do is what I have just argued . |
| 9 | The only thing you will not do is make me worry . ’ |
| 10 | But the one thing I 'm sure Roxburgh will not do is panic . |
| 11 | What you are not at liberty to do and what you will not do is storm around , losing your temper in my home . |
| 12 | I mean , there are , are certain things he can and can not do are n't there ? |
| 13 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |
| 14 | What they can not do is to have it both ways . |
| 15 | What television can not do is convey the rise and fall of the holes and show how undulating the land is . |
| 16 | What instrumental techniques can not do is evaluate the sensory attributes of an odour , in particular its acceptability , nor can they compete with the human nose as far as sensitivity to most odours is concerned . |
| 17 | What a doctor can not do is administer a drug for which the sole purpose is to end life . |
| 18 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 19 | What these animals can not do is localize sounds independently of their position relative to the animal 's body . |
| 20 | " The one thing Parliament can not do is to bind its successors " ( Maughan L.J. ) . |
| 21 | What archaeology can not do is tell us the names of the people and what great deeds they did , how they influenced each other , and what they thought and believed in — these are things that only historical evidence can tell us . |
| 22 | One thing we can not do is to reject Gettier counter-examples as contrived and artificial . |
| 23 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 24 | You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen . |
| 25 | What we can not do is to rely on their happening . |
| 26 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 27 | What a pleasant manner can not do is bridge the social gap , not in class but in age . |
| 28 | What you can not do is leave it overnight . |
| 29 | What he can not do is anything more positive . |