Example sentences of "not and [verb] not [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 . |
10 | Such questions will not and do not go away , whatever the philosophers of education dictate . |
11 | We would not and do not like them ma manipulation and extortion of workers anywhere in the world . |
12 | well not saying tha , I mean I and again I , I think what I need to do is get a sheet again , obviously working with yourselves and Rod to get you more information to make sure the classes are not and do n't get same situation as last year |
13 | Some of the some of the railways were very very functional , not and did n't bother too much about er what places looked like . |
14 | But the golden age could not and did not last . |
15 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
16 | The interim government was not and did not become the constitutional successor of the Government of President Siad Barre . |
17 | They could not and did not keep his covenant . |
18 | Fernando Serra had n't and did n't care a hairy monkey for her ! |
19 | It does n't and did n't amount to anything . |
20 | ‘ But , then , why not steal stuff you can eat and do n't steal the stuff you ca n't and do n't bother with the dogs ? ’ |