Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] does [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 It should be pointed out , however , that — in contrast to the oil ‘ death line ’ ( at 1.35% Rm ) — the ‘ death line ’ for dry gas does not indicate the end of gas generation , or the beginning of gas destruction .
2 For example , the reciprocal legislation providing for extraterritorial jurisdiction does not seem much used .
3 Never having run for public office does not daunt this ‘ can-do ’ folk hero who once sent a team of ex-commandos into Iran to rescue two of his employees being held hostage .
4 If the baby 's fed on water or for some reason does not take food normally , you may not find the problem , but a few days after milk feed this substance will begin to rise and it can be protected so the diagnosis is made by a test , does anybody know how the Guffbry test is done ?
5 Sealing after that date does not invalidate the deed ; the presence of a seal is merely superfluous to the requirements for execution .
6 In a few cases home-based treatment using the same approach may be helpful , although large-scale use of domiciliary treatment does not appear to be justified .
7 The list of accessibility of professional support does not mention any help , advice , or even referral to physicians specialising in relief of pain in cancer .
8 The parallel between the monastery and the revival of feudal paternalism does not have to be quite so ingenious .
9 the explanatory power and potential planning applicability of geographic theory does not depend on the employed and usually specified spatial axioms but rather on the unspecified axioms about individual and group behaviour .
10 However , she warned , " the fact that we are entering the path of economic development does not mean that we can expect a quick jump in living standards " .
11 Our model of political communication does not presuppose a view that the mass media are omnipotent .
12 Shouting of that kind does not help .
13 The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions .
14 The volcanic history of that event does not need restatement here , but the complexity of the stratal history makes this part of the column both the most confusing and the most controversial of all .
15 But being aware of that guilt does not answer the question of what to do next .
16 If the deep anaphor can be assigned a suitable interpretation from a content-based representation it does not matter , at least as far as a considered judgement of acceptability is concerned , if the previous expression of that content does not parallel the one that would have to be substituted for the anaphor to make a full second clause .
17 The fact that the employer ‘ only sells a patented product to one customer and therefore [ the employer 's ] existence depends on sales of that product does not mean that the patent is of any benefit . ’
18 The form of relations among the state , capital and the organized working class is clearly changing , but the destruction of tripartite corporatism does not mean that instrumental connections between capital and the state do not persist .
19 However , the arrival of fresh management does not translate automatically into an immediate upturn in Saatchi 's performance .
20 However , that there is no simple way of quantifying the strength of popular radicalism does not deny that the 1790s were a watershed in British political history .
21 Thus the argument is that the victim 's right to autonomy and freedom of sexual choice does not need to yield to the principle that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; it would be so simple ( because of the inevitable physical proximity of the man and woman ) for the man to ascertain the facts here .
22 Surely we can maintain that the existence of social mobility does not undermine the Marxist critique of capitalism , without feeling obliged to insist that it is really of no consequence .
23 The result has been that the system of social insurance does not dominate the system of welfare benefits organized by the state .
24 But the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing does not seem to apply to the use we have been considering of the word ‘ here ’ .
25 There are many complex legal aspects of the running of a company which the nature of this text does not allow time to consider .
26 The writer of this sentence does n't know whether the reader is male or female , but has chosen to use " his " as a GENERIC to mean " male or female " , overriding the normal use of " his " as a gender-specific pronoun meaning " male " .
27 With reference to your Country Profile on Papua New Guinea ( NI 208 ) the constitution of this country does not recognise any language as the official language .
28 An awareness of this structure does not mean that strategic intervention is either useless or impossible ; but it does mean that analysis of how resistance actually operates , in what conditions it succeeds or fails , needs an altogether more complex model .
29 NMOD The specified version of this module does not exist within LIFESPAN and so can not be read out into your current VMS directory .
30 NMOD The specified version of this module does not exist within LIFESPAN and so can not be read out into your current VMS directory .
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