Example sentences of "do not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 2 | It was rarely possible to unambiguously identify incorrect memories , where descriptions were produced which did not clearly correspond to any junction on the video there was usually no way to decide what event the description represented an incorrect memory for . |
| 3 | It is clear that a reduction or increase in funding did not automatically lead to similar changes in each of the schools . |
| 4 | Mr Dienstbier said the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , did not yet appear to be a ‘ strong and flexible politician ’ , and indicated he would be acceptable in the post only on condition that President Gustav Husak step down , to be replaced by a non-Communist head of state . |
| 5 | They did not yet belong to our world and they certainly belonged to no other . |
| 6 | The studious intensity of learning a craft together , the long and fanciful discussions about the philosophies of life that were prevalent topics , and the unorthodoxy of their nightlife did not easily transfer to a happy-families home . |
| 7 | This did not immediately lead to what might be defined as specific growth policies . |
| 8 | She stumbled over the words , muttered and blushed , her duplicity and stupidity so abundantly clear to her that she was surprised that the charming young woman did not immediately leap to her feet , denounce her as an impostor and throw her out onto the street again . |
| 9 | The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started . |
| 10 | She annoyed her father intensely by regularly wetting herself when he did not immediately attend to her . |
| 11 | Although this Presbyterian nationalism did not normally lead to Jacobitism , we do see a brand of Scottish Whig Jacobitism during William 's reign , centring around the person of James Montgomerie of Skelmorlie . |
| 12 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 13 | What precisely he could do about it was not immediately clear since even the Mamur Zapt 's writ did not normally extend to the domestic relationship between man and wife . |
| 14 | In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions . |
| 15 | He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns . |
| 16 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 17 | He did not even pretend to a crushing burden of work , only enough to complain comfortably about . |
| 18 | Most , however , did not even refer to education as relevant to economic growth . |
| 19 | A sizeable proportion of the population did not even listen to the speech . |
| 20 | A day of celebration and a day of tragedy , one superimposed upon the other , so that Amabel , who did not even wish to be rational , found it easy to believe that Ben Braithwaite had broken not only Linnet 's heart , but Gemma 's . |
| 21 | He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call . |
| 22 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 23 | But Wycliffe 's interest was far from scientific ; he reached no profound sociological conclusions ; he did not even attempt to be objective . |
| 24 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
| 25 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |
| 26 | I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman did not just stoop to the gutter in terms of smearing my hon. Friend : he used a series of inaccurate figures . |
| 27 | However , as in Burma , the demobilised soldiers did not just return to civilian life : they formed a quasi-military organisation similar to the PVO , though on an ever larger scale , the People 's Security Organisation , Badan Keamanan Raykat ( BKR ) . |
| 28 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 29 | ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers , |
| 30 | His actions then ( in this case in calling the twelve ) did not simply relate to his immediate Jewish context , but are to be seen as a considered action undertaken in relation to his having founded the church . |