Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Secretary is promoting his Bill by saying that people who are fleeing from political or social oppression do not deserve to come here and do not deserve political asylum . |
| 2 | They argue that it is misguided to pretend that these proscribed organisations ( like Sinn Fein ) either do not exist or do not carry massive popular support . |
| 3 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 4 | It has been argued that very few electors usually read them and that many of the commitments made do not enjoy widespread support among voters , even among those voting for the parties that issued them . |
| 5 | Chair , we do class as unsatisfactory those samples that the laboratory would covers do n't reach certain standards , whatever the standard may be , and that 's why we concentrate on that figure that the bathing unsatisfactory at one particular pool , where there was a serious problem . |
| 6 | You see they do n't want finicky stuff , they want er a large pay packet fo , er stamping er envelopes . |
| 7 | Well do the best you can er I do n't want exact words obviously but what was the burden of what he was the gist , the effects of what he was saying ? |
| 8 | One might avoid the objection , following R. M. Hare , by interpreting ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ as itself prescriptive , a logical imperative equivalent to ‘ Do n't get sick ’ disguised by the grammatically indicative form . |
| 9 | I du n no dear cos I do n't think I 've got any money . |
| 10 | Apparently it 's like sucking I du n no salty warm yogurt . |
| 11 | Er rounders which is er similar to er I du n no American baseball in , in a fashion is n't it ? |
| 12 | Some later Acts , such as that of 1853 disafforesting Wychwood Forest , did not extinguish common rights : common fields were to be set and cleared in each parish in compensation for the common rights which the forest inhabitants had previously enjoyed over the whole forest waste . |
| 13 | Many local folk who earned their living on or from the river were still worried about what would happen in the end , but one man busy in his small yard behind the bustling Tower Bridge Road market did not give international events a second thought . |
| 14 | It seems to me that Bethe ( writing in 1954 ) did not give due credit to Ulam for switching ideas onto an entirely new track ; judging from accounts given elsewhere ( eg The Advisors , H. F. York , San Francisco , 1976 ) Ulam rather than Teller should be called ‘ The Father of the H-Bomb ’ . |
| 15 | Critics also considered that the emphasis on efficiency did not give sufficient importance to the quality of health care provided . |
| 16 | The other approximation using a finite tip radius did not give sufficient detail close to the actual crack tip where fracture was occurring . |
| 17 | Even such an excellent scholar as Wyld , who was extremely interested in the social motivations of change , did not give sufficient weight to the evidence for [ h ] -loss . |
| 18 | A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices . |
| 19 | If we wish seriously to enhance such process rights , then we must be prepared to listen to claims that the agency did not give adequate consideration to certain views . |
| 20 | Throughout the post-war period the case for a high degree of centralised planning was weakening because there was no serious attempt to address the problem of an allocative mechanism which did not give free reign to market prices and collective bargaining . |
| 21 | Indeed Bevin did not want joint bases in peacetime : these might simply provoke the USSR . |
| 22 | though he did not want Lindy to know that they listened until they heard a noise again Then Bill laughed . |
| 23 | They did not want outside intervention in the collective bargaining process from representatives of more broadly-based trade unions since such interference could be inimical to the preservation of paternalistic employee relations within the undertaking ( Okochi et al . , |
| 24 | I certainly did not want existing company schemes to collapse and saw no reason why this should happen . |
| 25 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |
| 26 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 27 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 28 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 29 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 30 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |