Example sentences of "[not/n't] and [vb -s] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should be as much for what it can not and does not achieve , as for what it does . |
| 2 | The typical Soviet response has been that ‘ the Soviet Union did not and does not intend to turn Afghanistan into a base against other countries ’ . |
| 3 | He can not and does not do everything . |
| 4 | Baynton v. Morgan shows , amongst other things , that this last contention may not always be relied on by the lessee ; and accordingly the position of the defendant is not put otherwise than favourably to himself if it is said that the measure of his liability here , that of a lessee after an assignment , is the performance or non-performance of the covenants in question by his assignees when he can not and does not aver any performance by himself . |
| 5 | It can be seen that questions of lawfulness and legitimacy shade into one another here though the answers do not : the lawfulness of the action taken , confirmed by the House of Lords in 1984 ( Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 935 ) did not and does not dispose of its legitimacy . |
| 6 | The sacrifice of Jesus was ‘ for ever ’ and can not and does not need to be repeated or re-enacted . |
| 7 | The monarch did not and does not need statutory authority to appoint life peers — a peerage can be conferred on any terms thought fit . |
| 8 | Correct two points Hungary had no navy for the simple reason that it did not and does not have a sea . |
| 9 | Since the project did not and does not operate on the basis of a general , public advertisement for schools to make bids for a share of a specified sum , the rules of the game are not common knowledge . |