Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As late as 1658 Edward Topsel , in his serious work on natural history , followed detailed descriptions of the cat 's anatomy and behaviour with the solemn comment that ‘ the familiars of Witches do most ordinarily appear in the shape of Cats , which is an argument that this beast is dangerous to soul and body . ’ |
| 2 | No-one loves a winner , they are saying , and everyone knows Neath do not particularly wish to be loved . |
| 3 | Police administrative districts do not neatly coincide with local-government wards , but the 1981 |
| 4 | Interests in the North Side , then , do not neatly fit into neighbourhood units which dovetail into the geographic space of the area . |
| 5 | We do not need to reach firm answers to these questions to see that the realities of British politics — both the process of electing a parliament and the relation of that elected body to those who actually form and control the machinery of state — certainly do not neatly correspond to or embody the original notion of government by the people or the people 's representatives . |
| 6 | Some , as you will see , I do not altogether agree with . |
| 7 | However , the origin of scribal habits is not in itself valid proof that variable use of the conventions in written English do not also relate to variable usages in spoken English . |
| 8 | The problem with this type of explanation is that it fails to explain why women , who are surely more deprived than men , do not also engage in violent acts . |
| 9 | If the sale is by sample as well as by description it is not sufficient that the bulk of the goods corresponds with the sample if the goods do not also correspond with the description . |
| 10 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 11 | As we are beginning to see , however , these people generate their own rules for ordering their lives , they do not just exist in the middle of chaos . |
| 12 | The less attractive males , however , do not just sit on the sidelines . |
| 13 | Expectations of changes in the exchange rate do not just depend on current domestic interest rates . |
| 14 | Do not just go to the solicitor who did you conveyancing , or walk into your nearest solicitor 's firm on the high street . |
| 15 | Ideologies do not just appear in societies ; their function is to legitimate practices , and they are formulated for this purpose . |
| 16 | ‘ But you do not just march into a druggist 's and demand atropine , ’ objected Auguste . |
| 17 | The provision and s740 do not just apply to cases where there is a transfer of an asset from the United Kingdom to a place outside the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | Italian researchers have shown that Octopuses do not just learn by experience , and by copying other Octopi , but are actively instructed by those who have already learnt the lesson . |
| 19 | What this spirit brought was a confidence that problems can be solved , and do not just have to be lived with . |
| 20 | Indian er in India still has a very class-ridden society and er you know from the the top caste do not even associate with the lower castes and there is a terrific there 's still a terrific sense of that . |
| 21 | Canadians do not even travel across the country that much . |
| 22 | He had maintained that ‘ some of these bases do not even answer to strategic necessities in connection with the possibility of a world war , but simply serve for the imperialist domination of the peoples concerned , the subjection of nations and the combating of movements of national liberation ’ . |
| 23 | Do not even think of daemons . |
| 24 | The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately . |
| 25 | STA SODON The worst feelings which do not even lead to suicide |
| 26 | I do n't know how to — I do not even want to — dispel this cold mist left over from the fog . |
| 27 | ‘ These men , ’ said a teacher , ‘ do not even speak in Castilian , but in slang ; sometimes they do n't even know how to write , and can hardly read . |
| 28 | They see power as " structured " beyond and behind public participation in particular issues , and they point to another " face " of political power caught up in the fact that certain issues do not even get onto the public policy-making agenda for action and decision at all . |
| 29 | It is true in general , in spite of the fact that philosophers by no means speak with a single voice , and do not even agree among themselves about what they understand philosophy to be , since the nature of the subject , its preoccupations and methods , is itself a matter of philosophical disagreement . |
| 30 | According to Alistair Kelman , however , many companies do not even comply with the Companies Act by keeping detailed records of what goes on in their computer systems . |