Example sentences of "do and [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 2 | The life of the University both did and did not go on . |
| 3 | By contrast , the difference between those who did and did not watch BBC-TV widened : so the effect of television viewing rose from 12 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 20 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 4 | Conversely the difference between those who did and did not watch television widened . |
| 5 | When I first saw it I was confused by a strange surrealistic image of a place I both did and did not recognise . |
| 6 | Previous to my arrival in Sydney , I was at a stage of uncertainty as to what I did and did not believe . |
| 7 | Not only is there a division among the English , the Scottish , and the Welsh ; there is also a division between Gaelic-speaking Scots and those who do not speak Gaelic , and between those who do and do not speak the Welsh language in Wales . |
| 8 | In this case , " application of the GPC rules " is a cognitive process , and we can determine the extent to which skilled readers use this process by experiments that manipulate words which do and do not obey the rules . |
| 9 | The report also considers why pupils do and do not take up optional courses . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Among the results of his wide-ranging research into human sexuality Alfred Kinsey discovered what does and does not arouse both men and women : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The variety of the social events undertaken by such groups means that you can select what does and does not appeal to you . |
| 16 | A further difficulty relates to defining precisely what does and does not constitute economic activity . |