Example sentences of "not do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he could not help himself , he could not do otherwise . |
| 2 | One main reason is that I know that the other person thinks I will act as promised and therefore she will do something which she would not do otherwise . |
| 3 | That is to say , it tended to focus on what children can not do rather than what they can do , and in ( rightly ) attending to their problems it underplayed or ignored their potential . |
| 4 | But such rationalizing simply will not do here . |
| 5 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 6 | Clients where anxiety is secondary to another major problem , e.g. a formal mental illness , clinical depression , major marital dysfunction , or an eating disorder are not suitable and , in our experience , do not do particularly well in this type of group . |
| 7 | Such silliness , and tampering with the text , will not do either ( suffice it to say the word ‘ flying ’ nowhere appears in the Hebrew ) . |
| 8 | The effects of the adrenaline which prepared us for a fight or flight situation actually work against us when we can not do either . |
| 9 | To use an analogy from short sight : people who wear glasses are relieved of the effects of their short sight for as long as they continue to wear them and for as long as they remember that there are still some things ( such as seeing clearly underwater ) that they can not do even if they are wearing glasses . |
| 10 | Chicken dung would not do even the coroner 's innards any good . |
| 11 | We can not do just as we like because we are limited , or constrained , by ( i ) the amount of money , or capital , we have ; ( ii ) the inventions , or technology , available ; ( iii ) the space , or land , available ; ( iv ) the resources , such as fuel or timber , or existing roads and buildings ; ( v ) the desires of other human beings which may conflict with ours . |
| 12 | But it will not do just to dismiss the evidence of their experience out of hand . |
| 13 | He can not do just as he pleases . |
| 14 | I can not do not think I am can be mistaken in my belief that our meeting was also important interesting to you , and that however much you may value your seclusion |
| 15 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 16 | Why not do likewise and build up your own record of your progress within the organisation ? |
| 17 | ‘ The only problem is that we will kill your daughter if you do not do exactly as you are told . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 20 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 21 | Labour , like other left parties , does not do well in a recession , but prospers when the economy is booming , unemployment is going down , and redistribution favours me-firstism . |
| 22 | It does not do well in peat or sand alone , though a small quantity of these mixed in the above recommended mixture will be satisfactory . |
| 23 | Black kids go to school ill-equipped to do well and , of course , the majority do not do well academically . |
| 24 | By this reasoning the things which they do not do well become part of the ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 25 | They enlisted the young Joan at art school , but he did not do well there , and in 1910 he was enrolled as a trainee at a Barcelona haberdashers . |
| 26 | Sow the seed in early to mid-spring , or late summer , preferably the latter as viability falls rapidly , outdoors where they are to grow — chervil does not do well if transplanted . |
| 27 | The world 's top resorts — Trois Vallees , Val/Tignes , La Plagne , Portes du Soleil , Dolomiti Superski , Verbier — did not do well . |
| 28 | The plant , robbed of light , did not do well , and eventually David was moved down to Emma 's windows . |
| 29 | The work of Clarricoates shows that when boys do not do well , the tendency is to explain it in terms of their ‘ independence ’ and their ‘ free spirits ’ ; their wrong answers are an indication of their ‘ divergent thinking ’ ; their failure to follow the rules as evidence of their intellectual non-conformity . |
| 30 | It is submitted that in these circumstances they do not do well enough with the written word . |