Example sentences of "[vb -s] [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 A great storm that suddenly appears and is soon over ; if the condition lingers or does not have much intensity , it is not Aconite .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 ‘ 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 . ’
6 ‘ There are men here who remember me , who owe me favours and do not forget . ’
7 Pascal captures the negative side when he writes , ‘ Doubt then is an unhappy state , but there is an indispensable duty to seek in doubt , and thus anyone who doubts and does not seek is at once unhappy and in the wrong . ’
8 The remaining five pages of the manuscript give a dispiriting account of the office life he leads , the sonnets he writes , the girls and prostitutes he sees but does not meet .
9 Nevertheless the degree to which custom , as directly observed , conforms or does not conform to a predetermined stereotype needs to be looked at very carefully .
10 For Jesus is God 's final word to men ; and the Spirit illuminates and interprets but does not add to that word .
11 If the government borrows but does not spend the proceeds , what effect will this have on the money supply if it borrows from ( a ) the banking sector ; ( b ) the non-bank private sector ?
12 The approach of this book , with its emphasis on the study of specific crimes , reduces but does not eliminate the problem .
13 Most of the are concerned with what helps or does not help development overseas in the way of local policies .
14 One must therefore ask not only what knowledge is , but how it comes into being , how it becomes accepted , who produces it , who controls it , and why it changes or does not change .
15 Love is disarmed that meets with too much ease ; He languishes and does not care to please .
16 A recent follow up study by Sahay and Scott , however , suggests that in two thirds of these patients the anaemia resolves and does not recur .
17 And so the catechist who talks but does not relate , who explains but does not feel is faced with a handicapped person like the person described by St. Augustine in his First Catechetical Instruction .
18 It addresses certain key issues which continue to be troublesome : the selection of aspects of commercial law suitable for harmonization ; the level and scope of the harmonizing measure and the extent to which it does or does not displace conflict-of-laws rules ; the factors relevant to the method of harmonization and the likelihood of its success ; the problem of language ; the efficiency of the mechanism by which harmonizing measures are brought into existence and implemented by national legislation ; and , most crucial of all , the indifference , or even hostility , with which harmonization proposals continue to be greeted .
19 In the end , said , ‘ it 's all about getting to know the client 's business and having a partner assigned to that client whose job it is to know it and what it does or does not want ’ .
20 When we are dealing with the structure plan for which there is no local plan in force , we have a new problem which is that , owing to the diagrammatic nature of the plans , no one will be able to say with certainty that this does or does not affect the claimant 's property , but that nevertheless , because of that very uncertainty , a wider number of properties may be affected .
21 But , as men used to fighting for power , both were well placed to explain how the computer does or does not redistribute that power .
22 Whether nature does or does not do the same thing is always tantalising , and sometimes revealing about the principles and mechanisms underlying the creation of structures .
23 Such an assumption requires the invocation of additional processes to explain precisely how what a child does or does not do in one setting might be related to the child 's performance in a different setting .
24 ‘ Threat ’ when used in this connection means ‘ an intimation by one to another that unless the latter does or does not do something the former will do something which the latter will not like . ’
25 Even now , almost a decade into the project , we can not say that the monster does or does not exist .
26 More frequent medical examinations would not help reduce the risk ; the tests currently available that might indicate , for example , whether an increased coronary risk does or does not exist , themselves carry a risk that exceeds that which we are endeavouring to protect against .
27 Where a court is considering whether a provision does or does not cover X the rule will not admit the parliamentary history of the provision to demonstrate that at no stage in the parliamentary proceedings was there any suggestion that the provision covered X. It remains to be seen how long judges in the United Kingdom will be able to require negative evidence from parliamentary material to establish that an admissible statement is an expression of parliamentary intention , but exclude such evidence as an aid to construction .
28 Families of different kinds , for example those in which the mother does or does not work outside the home , are compared in terms of the ways in which they respond to the unpredictable , but inevitable , occurrence of these episodes of childhood illness .
29 Are there any ways in which you think that it does or does not work particularly well , looking at hers , mine 's , mine 's more boring , hers , she actually departs from the , from the text more .
30 Those who argue about this ( about how much should be spent on Arts faculties in universities , for example ) tend to debate whether it does or does not help the economy , help people to do various jobs , and so forth .
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