Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not apologise to you , nor to the murderous bastard next to you ! |
| 2 | I do not apologise for raising the matter on more than one occasion in interventions and again in my own speech . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) — I am not complaining about him , so I do not apologise for not having given him notice that I should raise the point — uses the crest of the House of Commons on his parliamentary report . |
| 4 | Do not breath over the drops as CO2 will cause lead precipitation . |
| 5 | They were often talked about but not sung about : 'We do not sing about such things . |
| 6 | Chaffinches do not sing at this time , but memorize the sound of adult chaffinches . |
| 7 | RISING star Sonia has blasted The Eurovision Song contest because entrants do NOT sing in English . |
| 8 | True , essential oils do not smell like commercial , highly synthetic formulae ; but once weaned onto naturals and drawn into the healing aura of essential oils , you will never again fall for the charms of the latest ‘ Henry ’ or crave a fix of ‘ Venom ’ nor even be allured by an ‘ Evening in Paradise ’ ! |
| 9 | Many special wallcoverings , unlike most papers and vinyls , do not match at the edges . |
| 10 | ( A strange distinction , this , since the KEF arrangement is probably the closest yet to a true concentric — the others are misnomers and should really be termed coaxial. ) claim that their composite driver is essentially free from the dispersion discontinuities in and around the crossover region , which inevitably result when tweeter and bass/midrange driver are physically separated ( because the directivities of the two drive units do not match in the crossover region the perceived tonal balance is modified as the listener moves position ) . |
| 11 | This type of inefficiency arises because workers and management are often ill-equipped or lacking in motivation and so do not perform to the best of their abilities . |
| 12 | As Spence ( 1975 ) says , " the firm , in large part , consists of non-market institutions whose function is to deal with resource allocation in the presence of informational constraints that markets handle poorly or do not handle at all " ( p. 164 ) . |
| 13 | The Egyptians , while insisting that they do not speak for the Palestinians , appear ready to fudge the principle of PLO selection of the Palestinian delegation to ensure Israeli participation . |
| 14 | The Egyptians , while insisting that they do not speak for the Palestinians , appear ready to fudge the principle of PLO selection of the Palestinian delegation to ensure Israeli participation . |
| 15 | I think it is very important for those outside America to understand that , like myself , the media and people of Los Angeles do not speak for the rest of the country . |
| 16 | Because facts do not speak for themselves , analysts need a ‘ pre-theory ’ or conceptual apparatus to articulate their significance . |
| 17 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 18 | ‘ Data , like facts , do not speak for themselves : they must be spoken for ’ ( Satarov 1993 : 73 ) . |
| 19 | If legal theories do not speak with one voice the contribution of legal theory will very much depend upon which legal theory is chosen . |
| 20 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 21 | When his wife ( Pat Heywood ) meets him at John o' Groats , they do not speak at all or , if they do , we can not hear them as if they were already far away . |
| 22 | ‘ You do not speak to me like that . |
| 23 | ‘ Do not speak to me of proof . |
| 24 | Do not speak to him . |
| 25 | I do not speak of it very much . |
| 26 | I do not speak of the substance of the matter because so many of us have some doubts about the substance of it and we shall come to that later , but erm it does seem to me that er we had to get rid of erm sections two , two A and three of the Police Act nineteen sixty four as amended and that clearly doing so here and erm er er I I think that this is an improvement as a result on the laws that er present appears on the Statute Book . |
| 27 | Yes , in the language of Buddhism you do not speak about ‘ How I impel this thing ’ but how it releases itself . |
| 28 | They do not speak about electrons and their states of motion as if they were to be taken less seriously than , say , billiard balls or elephants . |
| 29 | Labour Members do not speak about it much now , and may now be moving in a more constructive direction . |
| 30 | He continues , ‘ So then , we do not speak in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit , as we explain spiritual truths to those who have the Spirit ’ ( 2:13 ) . |