Example sentences of "does not [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the weather does not normally stop you getting to work , playing golf , or getting on with the rest of your life . |
| 2 | It is a matter of common experience that if one heats up a poker in a fire it glows red hot and emits radiation , but bodies at lower temperatures emit radiation too ; one just does not normally notice it because the amount is fairly small . |
| 3 | If the garden does not already have them , then you will be able to erect fences that are high enough to deter intruders and give you privacy of course . |
| 4 | The style of an artefact does not inherently tell us its age — independent dating techniques are required . |
| 5 | Other writers will make different choices , and that in itself does not particularly worry me . |
| 6 | Moreover , their use of their disparate conceptions does not just lead them to give contradictory answers to common questions such as ‘ Were Athenian slaves a class or nut ? ’ |
| 7 | Being in a position of power , his stupidity does not just affect him , nor just his family , but a whole kingdom , showing the universal not only the domestic significance of the old 's relationship to the young . |
| 8 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 9 | That sort of centrality does not automatically make it an easy issue for national politicians , though . |
| 10 | Mr Justice Cave , in his summing up , went to some lengths to inform the jury that , even when the taking of a human life appears on the surface a motiveless crime , this does not automatically make it manslaughter . |
| 11 | Their presence does not automatically make a passage coherent , and their absence does not automatically make it meaningless . |
| 12 | And yet this does not automatically mean they will be quids in . |
| 13 | The de-categorising of pupils with special needs does not automatically lead them to full social integration in an ordinary class . |
| 14 | The superior knowledge of the teacher does not automatically invest her with the right to place students in an intellectual straitjacket , nor does volunteering to be a nurse mean that one has automatically signed away one 's rights as a human being . |
| 15 | The latter may simply reply that he does not feel it is in the public 's interest , or that the Police Authority does not strictly require it to effectively carry out its duties . |
| 16 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 17 | How do smaller companies meet their capital raising requirements , particularly in emergence from recession ; particularly in the face of venture capitalists , many of whom have become more renowned for risk averse than risk taking strategies ; particularly in the face of clearing banks ' policy which does not exactly involve them rushing to throw loan finance about as they emerge from one of the most traumatic periods in their history ; and particularly in the face of the closure of the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) with no successor currently in sight ? |
| 18 | My hon. Friend paints a vision that does not exactly fill me with glee . |
| 19 | This is the cheaper option , but does not generally give you a great deal of choice in terms of design , features or finish . |
| 20 | It does not even oblige us to assert that nothing but classics , or philosophy , or mathematics , or PPE is education . |
| 21 | For a start , Ukraine does not even control them . |
| 22 | The new editorial policy complicates the process of producing authorised versions , but it does not substantially change it . |
| 23 | it does not indeed oblige us to assert that in 1963 , unlike 1300 , theology is education and all else vanity . |
| 24 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |
| 25 | Interactionism raises the issue of the relation between power and crime , but does not really answer it . |
| 26 | Some managements set great store by cuttings but a tally of the column inches or volume of press cuttings does not really tell you all that much . |
| 27 | We can describe them in terms of electrical activity in the brain , but this does not really tell us much . |
| 28 | To his right and left spreads a familiar landscape , so familiar that he does not really see it , an expanse of houses and factories , warehouses and sheds , railway lines and canals , piles of scrap metal and heaps of damaged cars , container ports and lorry parks , cooling towers and gasometers . |
| 29 | Thus the question which confronts Christian feminists — how should they deal with the fact that the basic symbol of their religion is that of a male Christ — does not really impress her . |
| 30 | ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’ |