Example sentences of "do [coord] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it is not always easy to pinpoint exactly why we do or do not engage in a particular action . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ My dear sir , you must not tell me what I do or do not mean . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ What you do or do not do is no concern of mine — ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Too often , we are limited in thinking of ministry as those who either do or do not work where are thought of . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not only is there a division among the English , the Scottish , and the Welsh ; there is also a division between Gaelic-speaking Scots and those who do not speak Gaelic , and between those who do and do not speak the Welsh language in Wales . |
| 17 | In this case , " application of the GPC rules " is a cognitive process , and we can determine the extent to which skilled readers use this process by experiments that manipulate words which do and do not obey the rules . |
| 18 | The report also considers why pupils do and do not take up optional courses . |