Example sentences of "and [adj] does [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Being blind and deaf does n't help you find work . ’ |
| 2 | The argument that crime is necessary and functional does not explain the causes of it , nor does it explain why some people are motivated to engage in criminal activities . |
| 3 | Keeping fit and healthy does not have to be a chore . |
| 4 | Always pick a flower on the very day that it comes into full bloom , because the process of ageing takes place very rapidly in flowers , and pressing does not rejuvenate them , but only halts the ageing process at the moment of pressing . |
| 5 | It has to be understood that the general and critical does not mean the vague , the watered-down , or the journalistic . |
| 6 | The whole thing 's unfair , life 's unjust and people are continually hurting and hating each other , and forgiving does n't help — why should I forgive you anyway , when you 'll never forgive me ? " |
| 7 | The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen . |
| 8 | However , to avoid irrelevant uncertainties that might result from relying on assumptions about particular situations , we offer in ( 5 ) examples that actually meet the unnecessarily strict requirement of inclusion on the type level , but which we might reasonably claim as sentences that could be used by ordinary speakers in the right circumstances : ( 5 ) ( a ) some of the Buddhists were sheltered in Islamic mosques ( b ) the carnivorous leopard has much larger teeth than an antelope ( c ) after the barren desert , Kano is like a garden 7.2 It will be immediately evident that the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive does not concern any difference of intensional structure in the narrow sense , either in the relations involved , or in the nature of the elements related . |