Example sentences of "[vb -s] and [vb -s] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It 's a case of pushing the float up until it holds and does n't drag under .
3 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 . ’
4 So I shall have four or five hours ( unless he cheats and does n't get all I 've asked , but he 's never failed before ) .
5 Love is disarmed that meets with too much ease ; He languishes and does not care to please .
6 Strong rumours that I 'm about to tax everything that moves and does n't move .
7 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 .
8 To the lay reader the revelation of Clark 's memoirs is the complete self-assurance with which the effective influence of No. 10 over what does and does not appear in the national media is assumed , whatever slips may occur between cup and lip .
9 The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) .
10 Clearly , a large part of the job of a person making a submission to the court is to ‘ know ’ the judge , to try to predict what the judge does and does not want to hear and so on .
11 Among the results of his wide-ranging research into human sexuality Alfred Kinsey discovered what does and does not arouse both men and women :
12 One widely accepted explanation is that the ordering of information is determined by the sender 's hypotheses about what the receiver does and does not know .
13 The variety of the social events undertaken by such groups means that you can select what does and does not appeal to you .
14 A further difficulty relates to defining precisely what does and does not constitute economic activity .
15 Whilst this may be ‘ wrong ’ according to the traditional school it costs nothing apart from time and quickly reveals both what does and does n't work in terms of presentation .
16 And then if it if if we have it down in reception for a bit , er and it works and does n't look like falling to bits , the we could consider taking it along to the Newark Show as well .
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