Example sentences of "they [vb mod] not do " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can always do more than is required , and how they do it is left open ; but they may not do less . |
| 2 | They may not do them and we could still issue , we would still have to issue the statements of general conformity . |
| 3 | Is there anything else like that which erm er which we do that they may not do . |
| 4 | What they must not do is to get in there at half time and think that they have done their job . |
| 5 | The nutter is acceptable in that he demonstrates to other fans what they should not do , and provides living proof of their own propriety . |
| 6 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 7 | It acknowledged that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of , for example , the tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other states . |
| 8 | Essentially they should not do it it unless absolutely necessary . |
| 9 | It said that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other countries . |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll not do that . |
| 11 | They 'll not do it |
| 12 | They , they 've not they 'll not do that . |
| 13 | We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals . |
| 14 | Seldom can a Committee of Inquiry have been told more firmly what they had to do , and what they might not do . |
| 15 | ‘ But if you 're so over-conscientious , does n't it ever bother you about letting others look after him , that they might not do it nearly as well as you ? ’ |
| 16 | Mrs Singh expressed her feelings that it was very important for all her children to speak Punjabi and she was afraid that they might not do this if she and Mr Singh spoke English . |
| 17 | For some reason , perhaps because they had heard it together , she equated that girl with the dead girl in her mind and thought that if bombers could actually see the people they were going to kill , see that they were young and beautiful and full of hope , they might not do what they did . |
| 18 | That 's right , 'cos they might not do it . |
| 19 | They might not do that |
| 20 | Of course they had , and remembering had made them examine their arrangements more closely to see if they could not do without their man-servant . |
| 21 | They could not do it . |
| 22 | However , they could not do so unless their account was settled in full . |
| 23 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 24 | They decided , however , that they could not do this during the coming festival of Passover because Jesus was still popular among the people and they did not want to cause unrest . |
| 25 | Even if they had been willing to rely on relatives , they could not do so ( Anderson , 1977 ) . |
| 26 | Reintroduce transportation , they could not do . |
| 27 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 28 | It might have been said that since one representative was absent they could not do anything about it , but the fact of the matter is they plainly had come to their decision the day before . |
| 29 | These last did in Scotland what they could not do in England , causing Protestant zealots , whom Ewing also disliked , to oppose the Oxford men with constant litigation . |
| 30 | They could not do this without troops . |