Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 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 | Studies which show apparent equality in decision-making between husbands and wives often omit or do not give due weight to many of the more important decisions such as where to live , when to move or when to buy a new car ( Gillespie , 1972 ) . |
| 4 | If you can not be contacted or do not make acceptable repayment proposals within a reasonable time , we may commence or continue procedures to enforce repayment . |
| 5 | He qualifies advocacy of leading indicators by saying that they may duplicate each other ( market share and sales , for instance ) or may not give additional lead time over conventional measures ( he cites bookings as an indicator of sales ) or do not yield reliable measures . |
| 6 | It is often forgotten how many people in a developed country like Wales , either do not own a car or do not have regular access to one . |
| 7 | Perhaps the observation of particular teachers over a prolonged period combined with the charting of individual pupils ' learning experiences — including visits to the library — and the ways in which they did or did not use project-purchased resources would achieve this end , but there are clearly practical and methodological objections to such activities . |
| 8 | To study whether demographic , social , drug related , or immunological factors influenced the development of bacterial pneumonia among drug users , the characteristics of drug users who seroconverted but did or did not develop bacterial pneumonia were compared . |
| 9 | If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible . |
| 10 | In this and the following story , religious belief played a significant part in what does , or does not seem possible for the client to accept . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The " Green Freeze " replaces the usual CFC refrigerants with a mixture of propane and butane , which have no effect on the ozone layer and do not promote global warming . |
| 13 | Peaty gleys have a surface O horizon up to 50 centimetres thick and do not contain free calcium carbonate in the upper mineral horizons . |
| 14 | All members of the ‘ dependent population ’ are equally dependent and do not present varying social costs of support . |
| 15 | Some 35,000 spent fuel assemblies are stored on land and at sea , in dumps that are overfilled and do not meet international standards . |
| 16 | Other vehicles on the train are upwards of 29 years old , and do not meet current operational and security requirements . |
| 17 | Decide on the time off the diet , plan proper balanced meals with the odd luxury for this period , and do not go wild and regain your lost weight . |
| 18 | terrestrial and do not carry aquatic parasites . |
| 19 | The essence of these national schemes is that they provide a monitoring of the system as a whole and do not identify individual schools or students . |
| 20 | TCR - cells isolated in this way are 99.7% CD4 + CD8 + and do not express detectable levels of TCR ( ref.7 , and data not shown ) . |
| 21 | PEOPLE use patents either as a valid legal weapon to block rival manufacture or as a bluff to put off rival manufacturers who know nothing about patent law and do not take legal advice from a patent agent . |
| 22 | But as large companies have big overheads and do not like risky ventures they often do not want to become involved . |
| 23 | We will ensure that the standards implemented through the Children Act are applied sensibly , and do not discourage private or voluntary arrangements which are often best suited to the needs of children and parents . |
| 24 | Impulses are generated as a result of neural dysfunction and do not follow classic pain pathways . |
| 25 | They tolerate most soils so long as they are well drained and do not lie wet in winter and would prefer a sheltered position away from the worst of the winter 's cold winds . |
| 26 | The report states that rates of child poverty ’ remained constant in the 1980 's for most countries , but doubled in the United Kingdom The results of longitudinal studies suggest that countries that have more child poverty and do not provide universal child care or other programmes to reduce inequalities before the child goes into the school system will have more crime . |
| 27 | Together with colleagues from North America , we were challenged by a Native Canadian theologian to share our faith in ways which affirm our common humanity and do not destroy other cultures . |
| 28 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
| 29 | We need to find refrigerants that are completely free from chlorine and do not cause other environmental problems such as contributing to global warming . |
| 30 | put the candidate at ease , are not aggressive and do not play silly games ; |