Example sentences of "did [coord] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Callaghan 's mistake may have derived from his own inability to grasp the significance of media images irrespective of how closely they did or did not correlate with some other version of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 2 | Like them or not , one could never be sure what Ken did or did not mean . |
| 3 | There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities . |
| 4 | Marcion 's principle of exclusion gave sharp impetus to the early church 's need to define which books did or did not rank as authoritative documents to which appeal could be made . |
| 5 | It hardly mattered what her own husband did or did not do when his wife languished in bed , an invalid . |
| 6 | For instance , the last chapter may have inspired you to make some very definite statements based on things your parents did or did not do in their marriage . |
| 7 | For many groups , public-pressure group activity was no sign of their power , but it was a testament to the frustrated powerlessness of those who could not get the ear of government , still less their positive action — no matter what they did or did not do . |
| 8 | Whatever he did or did not do , Earl Siward was going to make trouble in Lothian . |
| 9 | Clearly , fact and fiction become intermingled in such a process , but , as Chapter 4 points out , the idea that ‘ treatment equals methadone ’ developed at this time in Wirral , as did native knowledge concerning which agency or GP did or did not prescribe methadone . |
| 10 | As cities have always acted as the principal focus of political and socio-economic life in the Middle East , the study of Aleppo will show the way in which communal , sectarian and other allegiances did or did not permit the emergence of a wider ‘ national ’ outlook . |
| 11 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 12 | Curiously , while there was no marked difference in opinion about bad language or violence between those who did or did not have children , viewers without children were almost twice as likely to be offended by sex scenes . |
| 13 | To study whether demographic , social , drug related , or immunological factors influenced the development of bacterial pneumonia among drug users , the characteristics of drug users who seroconverted but did or did not develop bacterial pneumonia were compared . |
| 14 | Perhaps the observation of particular teachers over a prolonged period combined with the charting of individual pupils ' learning experiences — including visits to the library — and the ways in which they did or did not use project-purchased resources would achieve this end , but there are clearly practical and methodological objections to such activities . |
| 15 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 16 | The life of the University both did and did not go on . |
| 17 | By contrast , the difference between those who did and did not watch BBC-TV widened : so the effect of television viewing rose from 12 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 20 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 18 | Conversely the difference between those who did and did not watch television widened . |
| 19 | When I first saw it I was confused by a strange surrealistic image of a place I both did and did not recognise . |
| 20 | Previous to my arrival in Sydney , I was at a stage of uncertainty as to what I did and did not believe . |