Example sentences of "[noun sg] really do not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today a President really does not have the kind of clout with the Congress that he had thirty years ago , even in matters that affect national security . ’ |
| 2 | Although Doody 's notion of incarnation in poetry really does not account for the hundreds of poems written by women to the standard abstractions such as sleep , pity , and wisdom , yet there is certainly a strain in the poetry of eighteenth century women which might take as its best emblem Esther Lewis perched on her stilts . |
| 3 | Her powerful and eloquent singing really does not need to be supplemented by low-register Sprechstimme ; one can see the point , but Puccini is near enough to raw melodrama without such mannerism . |
| 4 | ‘ But that theory really does not stand up any more , ’ says Mr Santilli . |
| 5 | When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Was it really a fact that a significant section of the public really did not know — not that Champagne came from a Province in France historically called Champagne — but from France at all ? |
| 7 | I can not imagine what it must be like , but of course , facts have to be faced , one 's own life has some kind of vestigial importance , the question of cruelty really does not arise . |