Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] do not " in BNC.

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1 The introductory leaflet did not mince its words : ‘ It was a period when words contradicted deeds , propaganda realities , and when everyday life was full of fear , hypocrisy , and people felt helpless , having been at the mercy of those in power . ’
2 They are characterised by the presence of primary intergranular pores and leached intragranular pores ( Fig. 29a ) but the total porosity does not exceed 10% .
3 A useful feature of such dynamic spectra is the isosbestic point , which is a point where the total absorbance does not change with time , although the absorbances at points on either side do change as the concentrations of reagents and products evolve .
4 Such a change of tactics in the gilt-edged market did not preclude intervention , but such intervention would be in accordance with the authorities ' own requirements rather than in response to particular market changes .
5 Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it .
6 The European consortium did not appear to us to be particularly cohesive in their aims and objectives .
7 In particular , the European Court did not answer the second question posed for its consideration by this House , which was concerned with the criteria to be applied by the national court in deciding whether or not to grant interim protection of the rights claimed .
8 The House of Lords gave its decision against " The Sunday Times " in July 1973 , and the European Court did not declare that decision a breach of the Convention until April 1979 — a delay of almost six years .
9 The Dutch foreign minister , Hans Van den Broek , sees it as a step back to ‘ inter-governmentalism ’ — where the European Parliament does not count and where a weakened commission can not stop little countries getting clobbered by big ones .
10 Providing the European Parliament does not delay the proposal 's passage , Commission officials expect the Council of Energy ministers to approve ALTENER at its November 13 meeting .
11 One thing is clear : rail privatisation and the European Community do not mix .
12 Earlier this year , the Ince based agricultural chemical firm , warned that jobs were under threat if the European Commission did not take action to prevent cheap Russian fertilisers being dumped onto the UK market , making competition virtually impossible .
13 Earlier this year , the Ince-based agricultural chemical firm , warned that jobs were under threat if the European Commission did not take action to prevent cheap Russian fertilisers being dumped on to the UK market , making competition virtually impossible .
14 However , we have to bear in mind that , because of the complexity of scribal histories and the fact that the provenance ( date and place of writing ) of the text is not usually divulged , the medievalist faces a number of difficulties that the present-day dialectologist does not face ( for discussion see McIntosh , Samuels and Benskin , 1986 I ; J. Milroy , forthcoming ) , but if these can be solved , the general similarity that I have suggested here is still valid .
15 But the depth of respect and affection felt for the late leader of the Islamic revolution does not extend to his successors , who have broken into two loose camps of so-called ‘ radicals ’ and ‘ pragmatists ’ .
16 The absorption of the heretic Bosnian ( Bogomil ) Church into the Islamic world did not come about as a result of a dramatic act of mass conversion , but , if Ottoman statistics are to be believed , it was a relatively rapid process .
17 Across central France , in the mairies of small towns , there was a tangible feeling that too much was being given to remote and unelected bureaucrats , that the political class did not speak for France .
18 Many health policies in Third World countries are based on at least the vocabulary of this approach though the political climate does not always encourage such radical rethinking of health care nor does the training of most health workers prepare them to work in the new ways implied in the PHC philosophy .
19 An important aspect of the successful implementation of these parts of the constitution was that the political opposition did not object to them .
20 While Eva was at Usher the political situation did not give them too much pause for thought .
21 The Israeli army did not fire . ’
22 All the Arab delegations were present in Washington on Dec. 4 , but the Israeli delegation did not arrive until Dec. 9 .
23 So even the inflationary model does not tell us why the initial configuration was not such as to produce something very different from what we observe .
24 This exercise , organized and stage-managed by the Party , was presented by the official press and propaganda machine as a spontaneous demonstration of popular backing for Franco and , by extension , as " proof " that the Spanish regime did not need validation from outside .
25 It fires if every node in the lower layer does not fire .
26 Yet resolutions of the lower House do not make law , and arguably the royal supremacy established over the Church by Act of Parliament during the Reformation had vested the monarch with the power to suspend penal statutes .
27 We confirmed the results obtained by Zinkel and Crothers [ 27 ] using antibodies directed against CRP : the upper band contains the CRP protein and the lower band does not .
28 The first team produced by the Arsenal-sponsored scheme did not disappoint , and he urged the introduction of professional coaching into youth clubs and both the public and local authority schools .
29 That the mini bell does not carry a tender , and the standby diver stays on the surface , caused a dispute among diving contractors .
30 However , the call to the Iranian Embassy did not produce much in the way of satisfaction .
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