Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [not/n't] do [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be true , but is it any reason why the courts should not do justice as best they can , leaving it to Parliament to intervene again if the decision does not meet with Parliament 's approval ? |
| 2 | But words ca n't do justice to Jan Ormerod 's wonderful animal pictures , which make each spread in this large-format picture a joy to look at . |
| 3 | Mummy ca n't do chain stitch . ’ |
| 4 | The past three months have seen almost daily developments , and a 15-minute speech and 15-minute reply can not do justice to the huge amount of information that must be shared and analysed . |
| 5 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 6 | doctrine , and a view was subsequently promoted that a child could not do drama until he first learnt to express himself through movement . |
| 7 | I BET £1,000 DEVON CA N'T DO IT |
| 8 | If they were starting again , the engineers would not do FM this way . |
| 9 | Changing to the Ford engine will not do wonders for your fuel economy . |
| 10 | Daddy ca n't do algebra . |
| 11 | These few pages can not do justice to the array of benefits which a partnership with AEA could bring . |
| 12 | Was n't it Mr. Justice Cocklecarrot ( or was it Mr. Justice Wool ? ) in Misleading Cases in the Common Law who observed sternly to that persistent litigant , Mr. Haddock , ‘ People must not do things for fun . |
| 13 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 14 | Girls should n't do things like that . |
| 15 | There was a general statement throughout Rhodesia that African girls could not do maths . |
| 16 | Four per cent — 18,000 seven-year-olds -could not do sums at all . |
| 17 | Although this brief outline can not do justice to the complexity and detail of Poulantzas ' work , it does convey enough of its character and aspirations to form the basis of a critical discussion , and in this part of the chapter I shall focus on three connected questions , all concerned with the explanatory power of the theory . |
| 18 | Keith ca n't do Wednesdays because of his union meeting . |
| 19 | Inevitably a brief account can not do justice to individual writers and exaggerates the extent of agreement within each broad perspective , but it does emphasise central points of similarity and difference . |
| 20 | A brief summary of the arthropods can not do justice to all the fascinating specialized groups — sea spiders and mites for example — that have an incomplete fossil record . |
| 21 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 22 | This brief note can not do justice to all the facts and arguments involved . |
| 23 | This section can not do justice to the body of literature on the new public management which has emerged , but will focus on two critical themes . |