Example sentences of "[coord] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases the child understands what is expected and can choose or not choose to comply , being fully aware of the consequences . |
| 2 | Just as someone has short sight , penicillin allergy or diabetes never recovers from these conditions but can nonetheless do or not do various things that diminish their effects or progress , similarly , sufferers from addictive disease even though they may no longer use the substance or behaviour of addiction . |
| 3 | They can nevertheless do or not do various things that diminish its effects or progress . |
| 4 | Funnily enough , none of them would drink and drive or not wear a seatbelt . ’ |
| 5 | When a woman is politically involved , the decision to have or not have a child becomes a political decision as well and not just a question of personal wishes . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean that you can believe or not believe , that there 's a positive and negative side to everything , that it depends on how you look at it , that you can honour and accept or despise and reject . |
| 7 | A little sick or badly sick , sick with something you can catch or not catch ? ’ |
| 8 | When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ? |
| 9 | In November 1985 he resigned from the government in protest at the signing that month of the Anglo-Irish Agreement [ see pp. 34070-73 ] , stating that he could not support the government 's change of policy on Northern Ireland , including " the involvement of a foreign power in a consultative role in the administration of the province " , which he claimed would prolong and not diminish " Ulster 's agony " [ see p. 34072 ] . |
| 10 | Poor girl , she ca n't work and not eat . ’ |
| 11 | The movement is one to be welcomed if it proceeds along the right lines , the lines along which it may develop and not hamper national life . |
| 12 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 13 | I ca n't stand here and not hold you . |
| 14 | A majority believed that UNTCOK should supervise elections in the south but Australia , Canada and India were against doing so on the grounds that it would perpetuate and not eliminate the division in Korea . |
| 15 | He breathed through his mouth to try and not smell the fungus smell from his crutch . |
| 16 | Most speakers , he said , agreed that President Mobutu Sese Seko should stay in office during the transitional period but " only if he were to rule and not govern " . |
| 17 | He flew on , his great red and gold wings beating the sun-filled Mediterranean air , his huge scarlet tongue hanging out of his mouth in a desperate effort to cool down and not blow out any smoke and flames . |
| 18 | Tell the others with you that they must bow and not speak unless he speaks to them first . ’ |
| 19 | I could n't stay here and not throw you on that bed and take you , again and again and again , until you could n't hide from me any longer ! ’ |
| 20 | When he can dig back and not make me angry . |
| 21 | SMALL wonder many couples prefer to live together and not marry when a divorce could cost thousands of pounds in lawyers ' fees . |
| 22 | No matter how pressed for time or strapped for cash you may be , should you pass by one of these shops , with a window display of dummies wearing neatly ironed kagouls and ice-axes arranged in a fan shape round a rucksack , you will go inside and not leave until you have purchased a pair of thick socks . |
| 23 | and not go through you know in a while you 'll go through and not stay there |
| 24 | Even youths grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength , they will soar on wings like eagles , they will run and not grow weary , they will walk and not be faint . |
| 25 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
| 26 | She expected to be told to get on with her work and not waste time , but instead Miss Phoebe became unusually animated . |
| 27 | And procedures are intended to foster and not inhibit the exercising of professional engineering judgement and creative problem solving . |
| 28 | Tonight , she would rest and not think about her future until the morning . |
| 29 | If you dare to walk past and not go in , they dismiss you with a pout like a child , you cease to exist . |
| 30 | George Bush chose him to run the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) at a time when he still thought he could co-opt and not alienate the green lobby . |