Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [coord] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of standards of evidence arises now because of a case just argued before the US Supreme Court over whether data do or do not support the allegation that a drug called Bendectin , once widely prescribed to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women , causes limb deformities in newborn babies . |
| 2 | Maybe there 's no good reason why you should give a bucket of warm sick about what your workmates think or do n't think about you . |
| 3 | Well , the purpose of the County Council is to draw up a greenbelt local plan , and therefore it is a question of whether or not the sites fulfil or do not fulfil a greenbelt purpose . |
| 4 | If different groups within the organisation resent or do not understand the work and contributions of other groups then there will be conflict . |
| 5 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
| 6 | well you know I know that some people do but do n't back down afterwards and then say oh well never mind it was my fault cos it 's not your fault . |
| 7 | Is it a matter of class between a ‘ gentlewoman ’ and a duchess , a friend and a patron , ie , the point where social class and personal relations do and do n't intersect . |
| 8 | Small children have strong ideas about what mothers do or do not do ; my own adolescent children are very worried about what I might do in public to embarrass them . |
| 9 | Without these crucial areas of explanation , her theory of how innovations occur or do not occur seems remarkably fragile . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it has already been shown that the tawny owl produces higher levels of modification than other species ( Raczynski & Ruprecht , 1974 ; Lowe , 1980 ) , so that caution is needed before generalizing too far on what owls do or do not do . |
| 11 | erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in . |
| 12 | In this sense , power is not something that individuals and groups do or do not have automatically through occupation of a particular social or economic position , rather it is something gained through the skilful deployment of political resources in order to achieve particular objectives . |
| 13 | The report also considers why pupils do and do not take up optional courses . |
| 14 | Anyway , you do n't have to act with me — I 'm Paradise Street , remember , we know all about what you police do or do n't do , and most of them drink . ’ |
| 15 | Others seek but do not find the true love of their dreams . |
| 16 | The others watch but do n't speak . |
| 17 | Some people know but ca n't do , others do but do n't know . |
| 18 | I shall not pursue the point here , but it can be developed into one of the explanations for why particular arms races stabilize and do not go on for ever — do not lead to predators pursuing their prey at Mach 2 and so on . |
| 19 | The limitations discussed at page 32 above apply only to the SFA 's listed categories test and do not affect the SIB 's transactional test . |
| 20 | Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly . |