Example sentences of "not do " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he explained : ‘ My starting point has to be a vision , otherwise I can not do anything . |
| 2 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 3 | EVERYONE is entitled to their opinion , and while I agree with Joe Hyam 's concerning service charges ( Caterer , 15–21 August ) , I feel he is taking unfair advantage of his position to have a go at people who do not do things the ‘ Joe Hyam ’ way . |
| 4 | ‘ Why not do it at 'ome ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ As I keep saying , I do n't need you or anybody else to tell me what I can or can not do . ’ |
| 6 | Obviously if you have any worries about undershooting you should not do this . |
| 7 | These groups , like all élites , have no previous perception of themselves as belonging to the troublesome classes , and it does not do for the police to remind them that the application of control can be redirected depending on who is defining the ‘ illegalities ’ . |
| 8 | Actually , you need to be very much better than your opponent to benefit from a superiority decision ; a slight difference will not do . |
| 9 | They have taken Fergusson the teacher , while he was nailing up the lists , and stripped him and tarred him — ‘ Donald — you would not do that ! |
| 10 | ‘ And except for ministers , of course — we can not do without them ; or schoolmasters — the Lord Lieutenants will need them to draw up more lists and sign away more lives when the six thousand have bled and died in France , or Spain , or India . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 12 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
| 13 | We can not do without his cunning , or his tinker friends . |
| 14 | You are surprised that the Council could not do more for the World . |
| 15 | I was surprised that the Council could not do more for the World . |
| 16 | This will not do , for it is no different from saying that when one experiences ‘ red ’ one thinks or conceives of the colour , whereas the point of the theory was to explain what such thinking , or conceiving , is . |
| 17 | That this will not do is what I have just argued . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 20 | May be she did not do as well in the major championships as in previous years but in 1990 she still managed to win one Australian , get in to the final of the French and the US Opens , and the semi final of Wimbledon . |
| 21 | All these , Seles can not do . |
| 22 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 23 | Age Concern wishes to see safeguards against abuse , exploitation and neglect of duty for those who can take decisions plus procedures for those who can not do so . |
| 24 | I believe he came to see it would not do . |
| 25 | It has never been de rigueur for academics who rise to high places in English departments , and , conversely , students who possess it may not do well in formal examinations . |
| 26 | In principle it is extremely desirable , not only because of the basic ‘ otherness ’ of foreign poetry , but because such knowledge gives one a better sense of what English poetry can and can not do . |
| 27 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 28 | Voltaire could not do it ; |
| 29 | the french could not do it . |
| 30 | At any rate , though we would most of us like to maintain that Pound 's Fascism is a quite distinct issue from Pound 's poetry and his criticism , it is plain that we can not do this . |