Example sentences of "[vb -s] not tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 2 | ‘ Face facts ’ does not tell me what to do about the facts to be faced . |
| 3 | Now he does not tell her that he is going to put a knife to that child 's throat and burn his body to ashes . |
| 4 | However , this still does not tell you what to do in a crisis or if an unexpected emergency arises . |
| 5 | The other preliminary matter is that the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 does not tell you whether the seller is liable . |
| 6 | But it does not tell you how to do four plus minus three or seven minus , minus three , for example but it does not tell you how to do four plus minus three , or seven minus minus three where you have to add or subtract a negative number . |
| 7 | But it does not tell you how to do four plus minus three or seven minus , minus three , for example but it does not tell you how to do four plus minus three , or seven minus minus three where you have to add or subtract a negative number . |
| 8 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 9 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
| 10 | The story does not tell us what the Israelites had to eat in Egypt , but it gives our imaginations enough information to work on . |
| 11 | But even if this adaptive explanation is correct , it does not tell us how the eye spots are made . |
| 12 | Identifying the need for a transformation , however , does not tell us which one will do the best job of achieving the five goals mentioned above : so far we have guides to diagnosis but not to cure . |
| 13 | An aposematic species may indeed suffer less predation than a cryptic , distasteful species , but that does not tell us how aposematism evolved . |
| 14 | Himalayan Kingdoms are to be congratulated on organising the first commercial British expedition to an 8000m peak , but Alan Hinkes does not tell us enough in his article Broad Peak in the June issue . |
| 15 | For example , there were three guides and 15 clients on the trip , but Hinkes does not tell us that the summit party consisted of three guides … plus one client . |
| 16 | But to say of a particular consequence that it would not obtain if that class were not hegemonal does not tell us much . |
| 17 | This does not tell us a great deal . |
| 18 | Hobbes does not tell us , but whatever it is it had better be something which a monkey does not have . |
| 19 | But though Muffat entered into details concerning continuo grouping he does not tell us precisely how many musicians were involved in the performances . |
| 20 | What these sins were Roger of Howden does not tell us and any guess is bound to be a subjective one , reflecting upon ourselves and upon our age rather than upon Richard 's behaviour . |
| 21 | The balance of output between the sectors thus has shifted , but what this does not tell us is whether services are now the ‘ engine ’ of growth within the economy . |
| 22 | We can not assume , of course , that girls simply accept the images portrayed of them in textbooks ; a concentration on content analysis of textbooks does not tell us whether they are ignored , accepted , or challenged by their users . |
| 23 | This gives us , if we know the date of the award ( which is easy to discover ) , the exact date of all the external fences or hedges , but it does not tell us the date of the internal fences on the bigger allotments . |
| 24 | Thucydides does not tell us all we need to know about these encroachments on Peloponnesian League allies , and there are other encroachments which he scarcely mentions at all . |
| 25 | Clustering does not tell us why . |
| 26 | Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . |
| 27 | Finally , the question tells us that A's object was to save the leader ; it does not tell us whether his object was also to save himself . |
| 28 | In other words it does not tell us whether he cut the rope above or below himself . |
| 29 | The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins . |
| 30 | For all his invasive tendencies , Boswell does not tell us why Johnson needed medicine . |