Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [adj] [noun sg] do not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It predicts an eventuality the real President does not wish — that his successor will be his prime-minister-before-last and arch-rival , Michel Rocard . |
| 2 | In addition the learned judge did not think that a nationalised industry can be said to accumulate a substance for its own purposes . |
| 3 | But of course the pluralist view does not depend for its plausibility upon , nor has it usually been related to , the evidence from stateless societies . |
| 4 | In practice a married daughter did not claim her share unless she continued to live in her natal village after marriage . |
| 5 | In his work the human race does not originate ‘ on stage ’ in Beleriand , but drifts into it , already sundered in speech , from the East . |
| 6 | Even FD Roosevelt , he reminds us , had to tell lies about his fiscal intentions in order to get elected ( it is a pity the Labour Party did not see the proofs of this book ) ; and the famous fiscal deficit of the US , ‘ though a topic of voluble discourse ’ , was ‘ less of a threat to the contented than the taxes that would have reduced it ’ . |
| 7 | What a pity the local library did not have a record of the evening 's discussion . |
| 8 | But for attitudinism an ethical statement does not state any fact at all , not even the fact that the speaker has a certain attitude ; rather it expresses an attitude , something , so it is contended , which is very different . |
| 9 | In such a process the smart executive does not reveal a strategic solution ( even if he knows one ) as soon as he perceives it . |
| 10 | It is not right to share feelings in a sentence such as ‘ You make me feel … ’ because in actuality the other person does not make us feel this way . |
| 11 | He further held that in any event the public interest did not require the institution of criminal proceedings . |
| 12 | That night the little creature did not stop crying and its pitiful little squeak tore at Aggie 's heartstrings . |
| 13 | This was after Mrs. Dennis ' death , but in any event a receiving order does not operate to divest a debtor of his property . |
| 14 | By definition the private seller did not sell in the course of a business ; that rules out the conditions in section 14 ( i.e. as to merchantable quality and fitness for purpose ) . |
| 15 | In Brinkibon Ltd. v. Stahag Stahl ( 1982 H.L. ) the House of Lords confirmed the decision in Entores v. Miles Far East Company , that normally in the case of a telephone conversation or a telex communication the postal exception does not apply and therefore the acceptance takes effect when ( and where ) it is actually communicated to the offeror . |
| 16 | An example of the latter is the argument that since we are mistaken about secondary qualities-the real world does not contain red , sweet , and hot things but only certain electromagnetic , stereo-chemical , and micromechanical properties-so we can have no faith in our direct awareness of our conscious events , states , and processes . |
| 17 | For this reason the present analysis does not go beyond the mid 1970s . |
| 18 | By supporting this Report the Northern Region does not support a merger at this time . |
| 19 | Fostering local talent , he said later , was ‘ all very well in theory , but in practice it will not pay ’ , because the talent to make Leeds City a successful team did not exist locally . |
| 20 | In the nineteenth century the judicial system did not depend on either the headmen or the police for the initiation of criminal prosecutions , but on private individuals . |
| 21 | Yet family and friends may well need help in planning for such an admission ; this way the older person does not feel rejected , but is admitted taking a social network of support with them , of people who will visit regularly , and not feel guilty ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 22 | An interview elicits spontaneous speech in a way a prepared talk does not . |
| 23 | In the original scheme a new occupier did not get any relief of this kind . |
| 24 | I was disappointed that in his opening speech the Foreign Secretary did not even mention the horrific growth in racial attacks and neo-Nazi bands that are now rampaging around the eastern part of what is now the unified Germany . |
| 25 | So any electoral system should promote all three , and in this writer 's view the present system does not do so . |
| 26 | I mean , some of these who could be passed round to see , to get the size , but some of these , in fact the grand total does not equal by the teams needs , in courses that 's why they are unsuccessful . |
| 27 | In fact the new government did not develop as a British creature and , in the words of one historian , Nikki Keddie , it marked a " turning point in Iranian history " . |