Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [coord] do not [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | If different groups within the organisation resent or do not understand the work and contributions of other groups then there will be conflict . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Without these crucial areas of explanation , her theory of how innovations occur or do not occur seems remarkably fragile . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The report also considers why pupils do and do not take up optional courses . |
| 10 | Others seek but do not find the true love of their dreams . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The best example is a conclusion that direct facts do or do not amount to contributory negligence , which will always be an inference drawn in the light of the facts found . |
| 14 | 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 . |