Example sentences of "[pron] does not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can the hon. Gentleman say that it is the Government 's fault when someone does not pay taxes ? |
| 2 | Honouring someone does not mean turning a blind eye to weakness . |
| 3 | Saint-Exupéry said that ‘ loving someone does not mean looking into each other 's eyes , but looking in the same direction together . ’ |
| 4 | I can not stand it any longer , if someone does not come to me I will give up and be miserable for ever and perhaps go home of my own accord , write or wire to Uncle C. and say you are coming at once pleas darling , and come on Saturday or I will give up altogether and always wretched . |
| 5 | Provided the blow does not cause actual injury ( and winding someone does not count as injury ) then it is likely to score . |
| 6 | In The Old Curiosity Shop it is high summer , and Dickens himself does not mention a fire , but it is featured by one of his illustrators , within a chimneypiece much too solid and grand for a labourer 's ‘ hut ’ ( Fig. 39 ) . |
| 7 | Since ideology works in a mysterious way , it is not easy to see what would count as meeting such a standard , but it is clear that Althusser himself does not succeed . |
| 8 | Then , secondly , the truths of the Bible are ever-relevant because God himself does not change , either in his nature or in his dealings with men . |
| 9 | The friend himself does not intend his advice to be accepted for that reason , and is likely to be doubly hurt if he finds out that his advice was judged mistaken on its merits but was followed in order not to hurt him . |
| 10 | Gael is even more forcibly spoken through , and he himself does not regain his lapsed faith . |
| 11 | Although Sampson himself does not point to independent evidence or hypotheses about syntactic change , what he suggests coheres well with the speculations of Chung ( 1977 ) . |
| 12 | Josselin himself does not emerge from his diary as lovable or even endearing . |
| 13 | Curiously , for someone with such interests , Glass himself does not seem to like theorising about music , disliking what he calls ‘ polemics ’ . |
| 14 | Suppose for a moment that Mr Gorbachev himself does not know what he has in mind ; assume that he is just a moderniser with no clear idea where modernising leads . |
| 15 | Granted , hypothetically , that it may be a flexible legal concept , it nonetheless is of a nature which does not extend to the union of two people of the same sex . |
| 16 | cDNA 6G11 ( which does not extend to the 5' terminus of the atk gene ) hybridized to 0.3 , 0.5 , 1.7 , 2.5 and 4.3kb Msp I fragments in normal individuals and also detected the abnormality in patient E. Section C detected no Msp I abnormalities in patient E. Section C detected 0.5 , 0.8 , 1.7 and 2.5kb Msp I fragments in normal DNA ; the 1.7kb fragment was absent in patient D , but a novel 0.6kb band was observed . |
| 17 | C. A. Moser in Survey Methods in Social Investigation identifies three sources of bias in sample selection : ( 1 ) the use of a sampling frame which does not cover the population adequately , completely or accurately ; ( 2 ) the use of a ‘ non-random ’ method of sampling , so that the selection of subjects is consciously or unconsciously affected by human judgement ; and ( 3 ) the refusal to co-operate among some segments of the chosen population . |
| 18 | These would best be resolved by a form of cost-benefit which pays close attention to the social ‘ externalities ’ involved in investment projects , which compares the time profiles of return on projects competing for resources at non-usurious rates of discount , and which does not operate with the technocratic pretension that all factors in an investment decision can be rigorously quantified ( i.e. which does not disguise as purely technical questions matters which should properly be open to political debate ) . |
| 19 | A loft conversion with a dormer window to the rear only , which does not face a highway , and does not exceed 50cu m of the volume of the house , or 40cu m for a terraced house , does not need planning permission . |
| 20 | This policing function is less likely to be present in the case of a monopolist , which does not face direct product market pressure . |
| 21 | However , the study of difference has acquired a newer meaning and can now be seen in the light of a test of our theories of development and language , and in a way which does not isolate a particular group under study . |
| 22 | Because of the increasing use of plastic ( which does not conduct electricity ) , water mains are no longer used to supply an earth connection and Electricity Boards supply a separate earthing terminal within the house for the consumer to use . |
| 23 | Finally , a mutant octamer oligonucleotide which does not bind Oct-1 or Oct-2 was used ( oligonucleotide M ) . |
| 24 | To remove possible contamination by TFIIA , which does not bind to Heparin-Sepharose ( 12 ) , the column was extensively washed with buffer 1 plus 175 mM KCl . |
| 25 | There is scarcely an article published in Moscow concerning the development of Soviet-Latin American trade which does not cite this factor as the principal and most enduring obstacle to the further expansion of commercial relations . |
| 26 | And a low contoured rear flue ( we call it a medi-back ) which does not intrude into the kitchen . |
| 27 | Indeed , if it could be shown that any content is possible consistent with the general requirements of justice , then ‘ justice ’ or ‘ natural law ’ would be stripped of their critical function whereby that which does not exhibit conformity of content with ‘ justice ’ or with ‘ natural law ’ is disqualified as law or , at least , is in some way a law less compelling upon conscience . |
| 28 | One of these is in essence the orthodox Christian one , expounded by St Augustine and then by Catholic and Protestant teaching alike , but finding its clearest expression in a book which does not mention Christ at all : Boethius 's De Consolatione Philosophiae , a short tract written c . |
| 29 | It has been said that in s.9(1) ( b ) , which does not mention the term " offence " , grievous bodily harm does not necessarily mean the offences found in ss.18 and 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 : Jenkins [ 1983 ] 1 All ER 993 . |
| 30 | Therefore it is no more satisfactory for Muslims or anyone else to have a syllabus which does not mention Allah anywhere than it is for Jesus , God and the Bible to be omitted . |