Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also make sure that cisterns are well insulated with a proper insulating jacket ( or one constructed from loft insulation blanket ) , but do not insulate or put loft insulation under the cistern , so that some heat can pass through the ceiling to the water inside . |
| 2 | My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They may not exist or access to them may be refused . |
| 5 | When the sentence has been passed , possibly ( as the sentencer indicated in this case ) with the benefit of some mitigation , it is discovered that the means to pay either did not exist or have in one way or another disappeared . |
| 6 | You are old , you are bed-ridden , the work falls to me , you do not think or care , lying here day after day , waited upon and given in to , without worries or anxiety . |
| 7 | Equipment can not think or solve problems ; humans can . |
| 8 | ‘ One does not compare or contrast that . |
| 9 | Faye could not paint or draw while lying in bed , but in the mornings Belinda usually read to her for an hour while she rested her eyes , then left her alone for the remainder of the morning to rest or scribble ideas for future painting projects . |
| 10 | Unlike babies , we do not eat or drink just because we are hungry or thirsty . |
| 11 | There is absolutely nothing you can not eat or drink if you want to . |
| 12 | Father said she 'd not eat or drink till she gave in ? |
| 13 | It can not eat or drink . |
| 14 | Preparation , do not eat or drink four hours before your appointment . |
| 15 | On admission he had an extremely sore throat and could not eat or speak . |
| 16 | This Article does not affirm or imply the converse : that actions which can be sufficiently achieved by Member States should be performed by them . |
| 17 | Here they are totally secure , for though the orcs can splash across the Nimrodel — ‘ curse their foul feet in its clean water ! ’ says Haldir — it seems they can not wade or swim the Silverlode . |
| 18 | Griffith could not prepare or test fibres thinner than about a ten thousandth of an inch ( 2.5 m ) and , if he had , it would have been difficult at that time to measure the thickness with any sort of accuracy . |
| 19 | This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas . |
| 20 | Although Labour accepted that a second chamber to replace the Lords could be elected by a method other than the present first-past-the-post system , that chamber did not make or break governments . |
| 21 | If coal was just another industry or a medium-sized company in the private sector whose product was not as much in demand as previously , or had been superseded by another product that it could not make or compete with it , that industry or company would slim down or might even close altogether — with the same tragic effect on families and communities as has been seen in the coal industry . |
| 22 | For instance , in the county of Northumberland , we have an assisted development area pattern that runs from east to west — to areas such as Ponteland and Darras Hall , a huge executive residential estate which does not want or require industry . |
| 23 | They did not want or need Rachaela any more . |
| 24 | On the other hand , do not dramatise or exaggerate it . |
| 25 | It should not repress or propel the citizenship away from political life but be ‘ informed by an entire people to the point where the intellectual , emotional , and moral capacities have reached their full potential and they are joined freely and actively in a genuine community ’ . |
| 26 | I call that a restricted international perspective because it does not explain or attempt to explain how production is organized internationally and , to my mind , a theory can not do that unless it says something about the changes in the organization of labour that go along with innovations in machinery , transport , instruments and products . |
| 27 | The argument advanced in section 1.2 would suggest that we can not explain or understand these changes in the UK economy without understanding the international forces that have acted upon it and which the UK has itself shaped . |
| 28 | They may feel that there are certain rights which citizens have and which the legislature or the executive must not invade or remove . |
| 29 | Moral authority Cameron did not disregard or despise , but he was more concerned with its educative than with its binding power . |
| 30 | This presents an important challenge to composers and performers , and church musicians dare not disregard or dismiss so potent an influence for evangelism . |