Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the eyes of government officials , therefore , ’ he says , ‘ businessmen do not appear simply as the representatives of a special interest , as representatives of interest groups do . |
| 2 | Although the ionomers do not wear well and thus are not very popular , they will probably get better , and new innovations will follow thick and fast . |
| 3 | Present guidelines are that , if goods or services covered by an agreement or arrangement or other goods and services perceived by consumers as equivalent do not represent more than 5 per cent of the total market in an area of the EC affected by the agreement and the aggregate turnover of the participants in the respective group does not exceed 200 million ecu ( £130 million ) , EC competition rules will not apply . |
| 4 | Do not lean backwards or jerk the barbell upwards as this will put great strain on the lower back area and detract from the development of the biceps . |
| 5 | Do not lean forwards as you block since this will bring your chin close to the opponent 's other fist . |
| 6 | For while they indicate how complicated and taxing it would be to build inside the scaffolding erected by Althusser , they do not show either that the building would stand or that it is doomed to collapse . |
| 7 | What is more , the experimental results that have been taken to demonstrate that retrieval plays a part in latent inhibition can not demonstrate this failure to be the sole source of the effect — these experiments show that a CS-US association is indeed formed after latent inhibition training and can be revealed if the conditions of testing are appropriate ; they do not show convincingly that the association is just as strong as that formed in subjects given no pre-exposure to the target stimulus . |
| 8 | Whilst many of the questions Professor Buckley will address remain to be answered , he suspects he already knows the causes of some of Britain 's marketing problems abroad : ‘ Basically we do not try hard enough , we do not invest enough and we do not choose our markets selectively enough . |
| 9 | Always taper your training down at the end of a workout ; do not stop suddenly because this can cause fainting or dizziness . |
| 10 | The more significant changes concern the activities of offside players who until now have not been penalised if they do not advance closer than 10 metres from a player waiting to play the ball . |
| 11 | Water lilies do not grow well if water is falling onto their leaves . |
| 12 | These include drilling exploration boreholes , sinking small test pits and carrying out geophysical and geochemical surveys provided that the operations do not last longer than twenty eight consecutive days , are not in environmentally sensitive areas , such as National Parks , and that the site is restored soon after operations cease . |
| 13 | Good words do not last long until they amount to something … |
| 14 | If banks in LDCs do not function properly and fail in their vital role as intermediaries between savers and investors in the economy , then any existing shortage of funds for capital investment will be intensified . |
| 15 | It is worthwhile stating the obvious , that biosensors do not function forever and will fail eventually . |
| 16 | On almost any evening in central and southern Malaysia barn owls congregate after hunting at favoured spots , and do not disperse again until after dawn . |
| 17 | Vibrations do not pass only though the ground . |
| 18 | One or two of the instructions are ambiguous , some of the parts do not fit together as they are supposed to and more than a little initiative is required to complete the project . |
| 19 | ‘ The only problem is that we will kill your daughter if you do not do exactly as you are told . ’ |
| 20 | Museum curators often do not acquire more than one coin of the same type , and may additionally exercise their own judgement about which coins are worth obtaining . |
| 21 | ‘ We do not go outside and give lectures . ’ |
| 22 | Junctions controlled by traffic lights do not go forward when the traffic lights are green unless there is room for you to clear the junction safely , never go forward when the red , amber lights are shown together , when traffic lights have a green arrow filter signal , do not get into the lane when filtering is allowed unless you . |
| 23 | When you say land is built-up , presumably you do not mean simply that there is a building that there has to be a building on the land . |
| 24 | By " saying " things I do not mean simply that men talk about what they do , but that all their social behaviour is " coded " so that it makes statements about what the social situation is and where the actor is positioned in that social situation . |
| 25 | Do not land behind or close to another glider or obstruction . |
| 26 | Equally , do not despair just because the path ahead is long and uncertain . |
| 27 | ( Marantaceae ) , do not open spontaneously and may be opened only by euglossines . |
| 28 | The rear windows have steamed up by the time we decant her , and do not clear again until we are nearly over Putney Bridge . |
| 29 | I do not think either that we can make sense of the Devil in the language of contemporary philosophy or science ; on the other hand neither do I believe that we should try and invent a modern mythology that makes the Devil more credible and accessible . |
| 30 | I do not think then that we can ‘ blame ’ earlier generations for believing Christianity to be true . |