Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem , for instance , of Pound 's admiration for Brancusi , and of how that fits or does not fit with his other proclivities and principles , can not for much longer be left where Alexander leaves it . |
| 2 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 3 | They would admit nothing ; they sat there like stones , and their one aim was to sit there like stones , so that no one could tell if they cared or did not care , so that there should be no difference between caring and not caring . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A great storm that suddenly appears and is soon over ; if the condition lingers or does not have much intensity , it is not Aconite . |
| 6 | When I first became a Member of the House , I learned that one should never speak about things that one does not know or does not understand . |
| 7 | Parental involvement in decision-making is often restricted to identifying those aspects of the child 's behaviour that fit or do not fit with the views of the professionals . |
| 8 | In fact , at the time when Macmillan 's advice was sought he had ceased to be Prime Minister and it is the more odd that the Queen on this occasion should have , in Macmillan 's words , said that ‘ she did not need and did not intend to seek any other advice but mine ’ . |
| 9 | This pattern of results was not expected and does not seem to be an obvious prediction to make from any of the theories about arousal and memory which were considered in Chapter 2 . |
| 10 | And of course if an individual is fined and does not pay the fine then it is to prison he will go . |
| 11 | The Seller shall be under no liability , whether at contract or in tort or otherwise , in respect of the quality of the goods or their fitness for any purpose , save that , if the Buyer is a natural person , in accordance with the provisions of s 2(1) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , the Seller accepts and does not seek to limit or exclude liability for any death or personal injury caused to the Buyer by reason of the Seller 's negligence . |
| 12 | Young Bessie had been educated and did not wish to follow her mother 's trade , selling pickle-cocks , dabs and oysters around Devonport . |
| 13 | It was all she wanted to know and did not dare ask directly . |
| 14 | The unit will not corrode and does not have the sharp beam pattern cut off of modern halogen lights . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Tongues of the holy spirit of the woods , that trembled but did not go out . |
| 17 | Here Alice and Philip exchanged , with their eyes , feelings about Jim ; exactly as people looked but did not speak , apprehensions over Faye — as if something there was too dangerous for words , or at least volatile , to be set off like a risky electronics device by an injudicious combination of sounds . |
| 18 | They were the UN Development Programme and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific — both of which were billed to appear but did not show up . |
| 19 | Such goods might be divided into those we possess and those we encounter but do not possess . |
| 20 | Not involving yourself at all in anything whatever to do with " how or when or how much the primary sufferer eats or does not eat . |
| 21 | ‘ For the purposes of this section , no consent is obtained where the complainant submits or does not resist by reason of ( a ) the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant ; ( b ) threats or fear of the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant ; ( c ) fraud ; ( d ) the exercise of authority . ’ |
| 22 | Frequently this improvement is missed or does not occur because of some form of interference . |
| 23 | ‘ [ the appellants ' ] ordered documents may show not only what inquiries the appellants made or did not make in the performance of their duties as auditors , but what they were told and by whom , |
| 24 | He watched , aware of a whole vocabulary of gesture there in the dialogue between the two men : conscious not just of what they said but of how they said it ; how their eyes met or did not meet ; how a shared smile would suddenly reveal the depths of their mutual understanding . |
| 25 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 26 | ‘ There are men here who remember me , who owe me favours and do not forget . ’ |
| 27 | She pushed the dress back into the running water of the stream above the basin , where the soap did not film the water , and mourned the disappearance of his sweet milk ; his pleasure had frightened her , it was true , at first when he did not speak and did not ask or explain . |
| 28 | In fact they come under the grouping of ‘ Big Cats ’ , not only because they are large as cats go , but they roar and do not purr ! |
| 29 | 5.4.1 LISTEN AND DO NOT INTERRUPT |
| 30 | However , as stated previously , it is only for the purposes of discussion that any AL can be considered on its own ; in reality , the various activities are closely related and do not have distinct boundaries . |