Example sentences of "do not [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not want or need Rachaela any more . |
| 2 | Although Labour accepted that a second chamber to replace the Lords could be elected by a method other than the present first-past-the-post system , that chamber did not make or break governments . |
| 3 | We did not expect or intend that the project should address issues of this kind . |
| 4 | Mrs Swales told the court she saw a lot of shouting and arguing , but she did not intervene or try to get involved . |
| 5 | In most countries the bourgeoisie , however defined , plainly did not control or exercise political power , except perhaps at the subaltern or municipal level . |
| 6 | But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media . |
| 7 | He did not excuse or condone his client 's conduct , but argued that the children had not been coerced . |
| 8 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 9 | She said , ‘ Home directly please , ’ to Murphy and this time he did not sigh or look pained at all , but simply said , ‘ Very good , Miss Alexandra , ’ and obeyed . |
| 10 | In Wishart 's opinion Minton , despite the gaiety he stimulated , was never happy : he did not complain or evince self-pity but he conveyed a bitter acceptance that , owing to some gross farce on the part of creation , happiness had eluded him . |
| 11 | At best they were regarded as a distraction , if not a danger ; the assumption being that as they did not smoke or play outdoor games , ‘ they devote themselves … to inducing lads to leave humming-tops and marbles , and cleave only to them ’ . |
| 12 | For those who did not marry or emigrate , the war might bring change of a different kind . |
| 13 | Though they were alone they did not embrace or kiss . |
| 14 | Bukharin , since he was writing for a somewhat different purpose — at that point in his exposition — did not assume or leave implicit the equilibrium between society and nature , but instead desired to show that it is a necessary basis , precondition , for the situation that Marx dealt with . |
| 15 | Uta Maier-Maercker and Wolfgang Koch , of the Centre for Botanical Research in Munich , studied spruce trees and found that when exposed to ozone their stomata , the pores on the leaves through which water evaporates , did not open or close as efficiently as those of unexposed trees . |
| 16 | In contrast , despite its front-page headline — Sixty slaves in the kinky fiend 's harem — Daily Mirror did not identify or feature the comments of any of his previous victims . |
| 17 | However , the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment , which reviewed the matter thoroughly in the early 1950s , and later law-reform committees have accorded preference to the ‘ general principle ’ that ‘ persons ought not to be punished for consequences of their acts which they did not intend or foresee ’ . |
| 18 | For the government , acceptance of central planning did not stand or fall on the issue of nationalisation . |
| 19 | The two defendents did not stand or fall together . |
| 20 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 21 | Dick heard her coming , but did not move or speak . |
| 22 | And when she did not move or draw back , he gave a heavy sigh . |
| 23 | Moral authority Cameron did not disregard or despise , but he was more concerned with its educative than with its binding power . |
| 24 | When the sentence has been passed , possibly ( as the sentencer indicated in this case ) with the benefit of some mitigation , it is discovered that the means to pay either did not exist or have in one way or another disappeared . |
| 25 | He paused at the bedroom door but the vague shape amid the bedclothes did not speak or stir . |
| 26 | When he struck it hard against the trunk of the tree it seemed solid and did not break or splinter . |
| 27 | My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries . |
| 28 | The pageant , though it rolled and wallowed , groaned and scraped its underbelly on the crests of every ridge , did not overturn or suffer any collision . |
| 29 | They did not express or reveal but played with her own experience , or she wove fancies from tiny fragments of fact — at least this I sometimes thought I recognized . |
| 30 | Despite reservations about comparatively small numbers of patients , we can say that by the trial criteria , the diet did not prevent or reduce gall stone recurrence — whether or not an adjustment is made for the stone free interval . |