Example sentences of "[conj] do not [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are here to fight for those who are have nots , or do not get as much and have fewer opportunities . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most claims for present spelling do not hold , or do not apply consistently . |
| 4 | How can the Minister say that those people are not living in reasonably-rated areas — or did not do so , long before the introduction of the unified business rate ? |
| 5 | Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences . |
| 6 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 7 | Are there any ways in which you think that it does or does not work particularly well , looking at hers , mine 's , mine 's more boring , hers , she actually departs from the , from the text more . |
| 8 | At a somewhat less general level , however , there are also variables that function as markers of BV ( as against more general Ulster or Irish varieties ) and that do not vary significantly within the inner city in social terms . |
| 9 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 10 | If the joint venture is between firms that do not compete directly in the relevant product market , the exemption applies for five years ( from when the product is first put on the EC market ) regardless of market share ; it also applies if the participants are rivals but their collective share does not exceed 20 per cent of the relevant market . |
| 11 | Fourth , a further difference between the NCRA and the block exemption is that the latter offers a safe harbour for firms that do not compete directly with each other in relevant output markets , or for rivals whose collective market share is less than 20 per cent There are two issues of interest here . |
| 12 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 13 | The need to carry out ‘ proper ’ audits has been spelled out to firms , and those that do not do so run the serious risk of losing their right to act as company auditors . |
| 14 | Conditions that do not do so are irrelevant to its functions . |
| 15 | Care needs to be taken with medical records and old original documents that do not copy well . |
| 16 | I should add that some of the most interesting echinoderms are also some of the rarest — peculiar , plated animals that do not fit comfortably into the array of living forms . |
| 17 | The fossil record is full of curious plants that do not fit comfortably into classifications — this is one of the things that makes the study of fossil plants so fascinating . |
| 18 | Critics of world systems theory have suggested that the idea of the semiperiphery is an ad hoc invention to deal with those cases that do not fit neatly into the core-periphery framework . |
| 19 | Attitudes toward science — also treated elsewhere in the same issue — and the apparently instinctive antipathy toward new ideas that do not fit readily into one 's established mental framework , continue to manifest themselves even in the context of the current technological age . |
| 20 | Living things also employ and contain plenty of other carbon-based materials that do not fit so easily into these neat compartments . |
| 21 | A proper understanding of this subject requires consideration of the general factors , which may apply to a distinct group of nations ; of the special factors , which are perhaps unique to one nation ; and , furthermore , of a number of factors that do not fall neatly into either of these categories . |
| 22 | Or rather , it will be economical to use one of these terms in a yet more general way , to cover all of these things and also things that do not fall naturally into any of the mentioned ordinary or semi-technical categories or ones like them . |
| 23 | Mineral workings and industrial processes have created interesting habitats such as inland salt marshes , extensive deposits rich in lime and other substrates that do not occur naturally in a particular region . |
| 24 | Glass-makers can use boron oxide ( B2O3 ) in conjunction with silica to make glasses that do not expand too much on heating , as in Pyrex oven ware . |
| 25 | This is particularly true for fish that do not like particularly hard water conditions . |
| 26 | Our findings suggest that bismuth citrate complexed with carbomer 934P is of therapeutic benefit in left sided ulcerative colitis with results that do not differ significantly from those obtained from 5-ASA enemas . |
| 27 | If Hanson sells assets that do not work fruitfully together , it is not stripping them ; it is finding them new and better homes . |
| 28 | For safety 's sake , replace any plugs that do not have partly sleeved live and neutral pins if you have children in the house , since this provides extra protection for prying little fingers . |
| 29 | Something to account for her needing to get into the Workshops , but something that did not give away the Beastline people 's plans to attack Tara ? |
| 30 | Officials said the supply of money remained high relative to economic activity , and that companies that did not speculate excessively in land and shares in recent years had plenty of liquidity . |