Example sentences of "[noun prp] does not [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Analogously one might say " that the Earth is round is a fact " , " that Ruritania does not exist is a fact " . |
| 2 | Facts are whatever it is that is expressed by true propositions , and " The Earth is round " and " Ruritania does not exist " both happen to be true . |
| 3 | So how should one define that which both " The Earth is round " and " Ruritania does not exist " have in common ? |
| 4 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 5 | But if the asserted proposition is about Ruritania , then surely it must be false , for in that case the subject term has a reference , i.e. there is something for the proposition to be true about If , on the other hand , the proposition is true , then by the same token it can not be about Ruritania , for Ruritania does not exist ; it is fiction . |
| 6 | Yet even on the most charitable view of facts , one can hardly treat propositions like " Ruritania does not exist " as being on the same logical footing as any other synthetic true singular propositions without throwing into confusion the whole concept of existence . |
| 7 | Mrs Currie does not agree with the ‘ dual mandate ’ of politicians sitting at Westminster and Strasbourg . |
| 8 | Dismissed because of his " too personal " interpretations of environmental affairs , Illes told a press conference that he believed that the environment would be sacrificed as the government struggled for foreign investment and the population grappled with increasing poverty , and added that Hungary does not have a coherent environmental policy . |
| 9 | The American neo-Marxist Erik Olin Wright does not accept that there is a unified professional-managerial class . |
| 10 | And Mr Gorbachev does not want Vietnam 's role in Kampuchea to mar his summit meeting next month in Begging with Mr Deng Xiaoping . |
| 11 | And the following month , July 1949 , Acheson apparently issued instructions that it was a ‘ fundamental decision of American policy that the United States does not intend to permit any further communist domination on the continent of Asia or in South-east Asia ’ . |
| 12 | The cruise missile also has not been tested to its full distance overland , because the United States does not have the space . |
| 13 | Currently the United States does not have a droit de suite , a law that mandates that artists receive a percentage of the price of a work each time it changes hands . |
| 14 | The United States does not have a feudal history . |
| 15 | The president , according to the constitution has the executive power that executive power depends to a large part on the willingness of congress to provide the legal framework moments in which there is harmony and cooperation between president and congress tend to be exceptional rather than er a regular feature of the American system and if er the president manages to get something through congress , you can bet that very quickly the president will face some defeat in congress shortly thereafter to remind the president that the United States does not have , contrary to the popular press , does not have a presidential system of government . |
| 16 | The opinion stated : ‘ US agents have no law-enforcement authority in another nation unless it is the product of that nation 's consent … in the current international climate , this country can ill afford an operation that would permit others to argue that the United States does not respect international law . ’ |
| 17 | The United States does not require advance permission . |
| 18 | Mention of Unix System Lab 's Unix SVR4.2 or Univel Inc 's UnixWare does not draw breath . |
| 19 | Dickie does not believe in clover , or mowers , and he would not recognize ‘ Chewing 's Fescue ’ if you served it to him on a bed of rice . |
| 20 | Andy does not like remembering that bit . |
| 21 | Besides , Botha does not defend , which is not really a problem because he stayed miles from his scrum-half , Du Preez , and made him look terrible with a slippery ball . |
| 22 | The US is talking separately with China , Russia , Japan and others to find ways to resolve the standoff so that Pyongyang does not lose face , yet allows inspections to take place . |
| 23 | She is threatening to pull out of the government and join Mr Sharif 's agitation if Mr Ishaq does not fulfil her demands . |
| 24 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 25 | From the hundreds of volumes at home , including Shakespeare , Chaucer , Spenser , Shelley , Keats , Byron , Tennyson , and Browning , the boys were encouraged to learn selected poems for recitation ; but Edward does not record where he had found and read Darwin 's Descent of Man and books of travel , sport , and natural history , especially the many copious draughts of Richard Jefferies . |
| 26 | ‘ Prince Edward does not have a butler , ’ was the reply . |
| 27 | Engels does not pretend that the histories of Greece , Rome , and the Iroquois are identical . |
| 28 | GRE does not guarantee that the amount paid will be the same as that indicated . |
| 29 | DURING the next six weeks Scotland are pledged to find the right blend in order that their assault on the Rugby World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield does not self-destruct . |
| 30 | The Renault does not claim to be sporty ; rather , it is a refined , comfortable cruiser . |