Example sentences of "[coord] do they [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you pick these loaves or do they feel sorry for you when they give them to you ? |
| 2 | Oh I can imagine it being a bit strained off and on with er two lots of parents or do they know each other well and everything ? |
| 3 | Do they look viable , or do they occupy run-down property ? |
| 4 | Do they keep it in cash in a piggy bank , or in a current account in a real bank ; or do they put it in some interest bearing time account ; or do they buy stocks and shares or government bonds ; or do they buy some physical asset such as a car or property ? |
| 5 | Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ? |
| 6 | Do students learn passively , by taking notes in a 50-minute lecture , or do they have more control over their own learning ? |
| 7 | Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 8 | ‘ Women ’ , announced one phrenologist , according to the Phrenological Journal of 1835 , ‘ do not extend their reasoning beyond the range of the visible world , nor do they make any great or daring excursions into the realm of fancy . ’ |
| 9 | But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ . |
| 10 | Their clicks are not FM , nor do they appear suitable for Doppler-shift speed metering . |
| 11 | Crucially , they have not produced , nor do they appear likely to do so , a damaging crisis of legitimacy for the State . |
| 12 | They see routine non-manual workers as little different to manual workers : they neither own the means of production nor do they perform important social control functions for capitalists . |
| 13 | They do not purport to explain fully why peripheral areas are in the condition in which they find themselves , nor do they regard one dimension ( in this case , the political ) as offering the complete explanation . |
| 14 | They are not places for quiet reflection , they are not clubrooms in which plots and schemes can be laid nor do they have useful collections of books , journals and other aids to professional thinking . |
| 15 | The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them . |
| 16 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 17 | Nor do they take proper account of the risks banks run on their foreign-exchange and interest-rate positions . |
| 18 | Nor do they follow any specific pattern on the bottom , such is circles or straight lines . |
| 19 | Such models are much too simple to describe the complex viscoelastic behaviour of a polymer , nor do they provide any real insight into the molecular mechanism of the process , but in certain instances they can prove useful in assisting the understanding of the viscoelastic process . |
| 20 | While the Chewong are fully aware of the physiological differences between the sexes , these are not valued relative to each other , nor do they constitute any base for symbolic ordering ( see Howell 1983 , 1988 for further discussion on Chewong gender ) . |
| 21 | Nor do they include old favourites like industrial subsidies and incomes policies . |
| 22 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |
| 23 | Nor do they share any body of feminist dogma . |
| 24 | They receive no overtime pay , nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit . |
| 25 | And do they contradict each other ? |
| 26 | whether the Germans would be , I mean if it 's coming from a German T V station but do they broadcast American you know , English speaking programmes there in Germany |