Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Such goods might be divided into those we possess and those we encounter but do not possess . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 5.4.1 LISTEN AND DO NOT INTERRUPT |
| 6 | Relax and do not attempt to pull your tummy in hard . |
| 7 | Others seek but do not find the true love of their dreams . |
| 8 | Insiders are in a privileged position ; they are under a moral duty to act responsibly , and not to profit from information which they receive but do not own . |
| 9 | The references in sections 2 , 3 and 4 qualify but do not impair the meaning of the words ‘ appropriates ’ and ‘ appropriation , ’ as they are used in section 1 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | People in church do not usually sing when they either dislike or do not know a piece . |
| 12 | Scrub but do not peel the potatoes and cut them in half lengthwise . |
| 13 | And as the wealth increases in absolute terms even the poorer classes , those who feed but do not run the machine , begin to improve their social conditions and economic power . |
| 14 | Doubts like this crystallize at one or two points , either where the presuppositions are so mixed and unsatisfactory that they are inaccurate , or where the presuppositions are true as far as they go but do not go far enough and so are incomplete . |
| 15 | Well , the purpose of the County Council is to draw up a greenbelt local plan , and therefore it is a question of whether or not the sites fulfil or do not fulfil a greenbelt purpose . |
| 16 | Of course , it is not always easy to pinpoint exactly why we do or do not engage in a particular action . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
| 19 | Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly . |
| 20 | ‘ My dear sir , you must not tell me what I do or do not mean . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The resulting ‘ subgovernments ’ ( Cater , 1964 , pp. 17–22 ) or ‘ iron triangles ’ have been seen as critical to an understanding of what governments actually do or do not do because of their permanence , the secrecy of their operations and the weak party system in the United States . |
| 24 | ‘ What you do or do not do is no concern of mine — ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The issue of standards of evidence arises now because of a case just argued before the US Supreme Court over whether data do or do not support the allegation that a drug called Bendectin , once widely prescribed to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women , causes limb deformities in newborn babies . |
| 27 | It borders upon the tautological to focus upon the relationships between unhealthful reproductive patterns and the demographic characteristics of women who do or do not use contraceptives . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Too often , we are limited in thinking of ministry as those who either do or do not work where are thought of . |
| 30 | In particular , the project investigates the importance of children 's increasing awareness that they do or do not know the precise reference of particular words . |