Example sentences of "does not [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would not say that it was a part of anything around you — it does not attach itself to things or become a particular quality that they have . |
| 2 | ‘ We know we 've done nothing wrong and it does not bother us in the least what the referees ’ report says . ’ |
| 3 | Celebrating the importance of the survey in the history and contemporary milieux of social research is one thing ; but this importance does not place it beyond criticism as a method of social research . |
| 4 | However , the fact that there is some restriction on the power of the company to deal with assets subject to a charge does not preclude it from being a floating charge . |
| 5 | A plaintiff has only four calendar months ( six if leave to serve out of the jurisdiction is required under RSC Ord 11 ) , in which to serve the writ and if he does not serve it within that period the fact that the last day is a Sunday , when it can not be served , does not come to his aid . |
| 6 | So being a Christian then does not isolate us from sorrow or from grief . |
| 7 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 8 | If so , please make sure that this does not distract you from your work . |
| 9 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 10 | I seem to remember being told that the latest policy is to turn water cannon on the nurses ; that does not strike me as the most helpful approach . |
| 11 | GUIL : Which even at first glance does not strike one as a particularly rewarding speculation , in either sense , even without the monkeys . |
| 12 | I ask only a simple question , which does not entrap you in any way . |
| 13 | McCallum assumes that the government decides its monetary and fiscal policies for period t at the end of period t - 1 and can not or does not change them in period t . |
| 14 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |
| 15 | The model does not make it over the top of the loop and starts to fall inverted . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Christine Brooke-Rose does not classify herself as a feminist . |
| 17 | At least he states his beliefs as they really are , and does not mould them to electoral advantage . |
| 18 | That proposition has much support among lawyers , and even more among laymen , but our sample cases show that it does not command anything like universal assent among judges in the United States . |
| 19 | Remember also that a vocational degree does not bind you to one particular field of employment . |
| 20 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 21 | Although Halliday does not commit himself to a functional definition of literary language , he does recognize that different kinds of literary writing may foreground different functions . |
| 22 | Conversely , taking articles with a local authority does not commit you to a career in local government . |
| 23 | The completion of the questionnaire does not commit you in any way , but the information you provide will be used in the future planning of sport and recreation facilities . |
| 24 | Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ? |
| 25 | Ravel 's Chansons madecasses , though the music sweats with sultry southern heat , does not bathe one with the swirling sounds of his orchestral timbres . |
| 26 | Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament . |
| 27 | Robin Smith does not regard himself as an automatic selection for this summer 's campaign against Pakistan , despite winning the Cornhill player of the year award . |
| 28 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 29 | It is recognised in planning circles that planning applications for fish and chip shops are contentious and it has been said that whilst ‘ Joe Public wants hot food shops he does not want them near him and he is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house ’ . |
| 30 | She does not want you to be tried by the government . ’ |