Example sentences of "[conj] do [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you do n't want or do n't have time to haggle , ’ says Mr Latif , ‘ you should make sure you buy your carpet , your jewellery , or your woodwork from a fixed-price store . |
| 2 | Erm , really its a question of , do we borrow or do n't we borrow . |
| 3 | Do you want to stay or do n't you ? |
| 4 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 5 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | DO N'T CASTRATE TOO SOON , & DO N'T CASTRATE THE WRONG DOG ! |
| 8 | They hardly saw each other & did not leave space for each other ! |
| 9 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 10 | ‘ Sovereignty is not something that you either have or do not have , like a family heirloom which you take out and dust every now and then to make sure that it is still in your possession and still intact , ’ Sir Leon said . |
| 11 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 12 | In his article ‘ Sovereignty and interdependence : Britain 's place in the world ’ , he defines sovereignty as ‘ a nation 's practical capacity to maximise its influence in the world ’ and uses the metaphor of a ‘ bundle of sticks ’ , some of which are exchanged for others , to illustrate that ‘ sovereignty is not like virginity , something you either have or do not have . ’ |
| 13 | The rest do not know , or do not want to know , the extent to which the NCT has influenced every aspect of obstetric care . |
| 14 | Without these crucial areas of explanation , her theory of how innovations occur or do not occur seems remarkably fragile . |
| 15 | The stitching can go rotten in a very short space of time and remember when you start the cross country course , ride with confidence or do not start ! |
| 16 | The findings indicate however that it is not so much the carers ' preferences which do or do not change but their feelings about the feasibility of those preferences . |
| 17 | In the meantime , the vast majority of Indian children either do not go to school or do not reach the end of primary school . |
| 18 | Of course , it is not always easy to pinpoint exactly why we do or do not engage in a particular action . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Already at least 10 of the 43 police authorities in England and Wales either do not have any plastic bullets or do not favour their use , according to Patricia Hewin of the NCCL . |
| 21 | Stimulating arguments aside , there are two points of view about robots and , indeed , the related field of information technology ( this issue , p 634 onwards ) : either they do or do not destroy jobs . |
| 22 | Most claims for present spelling do not hold , or do not apply consistently . |
| 23 | Your doctor would send you an appointment , but if you move or do not hear , please contact your doctor or clinic and arrange for a further smear . |
| 24 | In 1739 ( and , later , in 1763 ) Acts were passed empowering the justices ‘ to raise and levy such able-bodied men as have not any lawfyl calling or employment … or do not make use of any lawful means for their support and maintenance , to serve as soldiers ’ . |
| 25 | Tick all of the items which relate to performance : the skills that you either have or do not have . |
| 26 | This category from the 1981 census has proved an excellent indicator , because it largely identifies young , single people living in multi-occupied houses who either can not or do not cook , or who do not have regular access to a kitchen . |
| 27 | We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations . |
| 28 | Of course , if you are calling the Institute for the first time , or do not know who you need to speak to , then the switchboard staff will still be there to help you . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Through both the death and resurrection of Jesus , humanity is now reconciled to God even if some people are unaware of , or do not care to hear , the good news . |