Example sentences of "a [noun sg] do [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principles in relation to the taxation of costs after a trial do not prevent the parties reaching their own agreement about costs where a settlement is effected before trial . |
| 2 | The fact that her husband had a mistress did n't diminish the affection he had for his wife . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly this depiction of the humdrum life of a clerk did not capture the headlines in the fashion of The Big Parade but with The Crowd Vidor again forced the educated classes to take note of Hollywood . |
| 4 | There is a story do n't give the answer away but who would you say is very positive , one of the most aggressive chat show hosts in , say , today could be I T V or B B C ? |
| 5 | In other words it is said that a verdict of death aggravated by lack of care may be appropriate once there is an inquest but the availability of such a verdict does not determine the question whether or not there should be an inquest . |
| 6 | The supplementation of the grammar information from the corpus with that from the dictionary alleviates this problem since a dictionary aims to provide a list of all of the possible parts of speech ( although a dictionary does not indicate the likelihood of a word behaving in that manner ) . |
| 7 | It is not difficult to show that even an apparently high level of detail in a criterion does not specify the test items unequivocally . |
| 8 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 9 | Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them . |
| 10 | A council does not have the ability to help because of the spending limits set by the poll tax and the severe controls set by government . |
| 11 | If a home does not meet the minimum standard , the owner will be able to claim back all the money spent within the first year after purchase on raising it to that level , through , for example , home insulation , up to the amount of stamp duty they paid when they bought the property ( up to the maximum of £1000 ) . |
| 12 | He said that the reserve powers to make pension orders would be used to secure existing pension rights if a subsidiary did not take the steps that , the Secretary of State considered appropriate to secure the pension rights of its employees . |
| 13 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 14 | Simply pouring the beer out from a can did not generate the force needed to initiate the gas break-out that creates the head . |
| 15 | Work in a museum did not encourage the study of what we should now call ecological relationships . |
| 16 | These oscillations , however , still conform to laws and , despite the most severe violations of the equilibrium ( crises ) , the system as a whole remains … a crisis does not overstep the limits of the oscillation of the system … through all the movements and oscillations , the equilibrium is restored time and again . |
| 17 | It was held that a private company which was buying a car for a director did not acquire the vehicle " in the course of a business " . |
| 18 | In this case , the view was taken that so long as the " sale " was correctly carried through , the arrangement 's function as a security did not overturn the transaction . |
| 19 | Fashioning and firing a pot does not affect the clay composition but care must be taken , since potters frequently mix additives into clay to prepare it , and burial of pottery in the ground has some slight effects on its composition . |
| 20 | A person does not buy the product but rather buy what it 'll do for him or her . |
| 21 | Gloria said that when a person does not receive the right emotional nourishment at a stage in their life , then they can stay in that emotional period . |
| 22 | The use of earplugs can simulate the effect , and help one to appreciate the implications for safety if a person does not hear the whistle of the boiling kettle , or the sound of a pot of food boiling over , or the noise of approaching traffic . |
| 23 | Even if a person did not know the consequences of giving up their autonomy , it is in fact these consequences which make the relinquishing of autonomy wrong . |
| 24 | Giving her a name did n't help the situation . |
| 25 | to me this is , a square does n't look the same as the round |
| 26 | To begin with , it is a sad but true fact that society as a whole does not welcome the widow , however sorry they feel for her . |
| 27 | The House as a whole did not find the Home Secretary 's arguments convincing , accepting the clause by 245 to 222 , a majority of twenty-three . |
| 28 | He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service . |
| 29 | A woman does n't know the ways of the world ; she does n't understand these things … and would n't want to . |
| 30 | A kiss does n't change the world around us . ’ |