Example sentences of "does not [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this argument suggests in Gandhi 's case is that he does not abandon his commitment to the principle of non-violence or qualify it in any way when he approves the destruction of life . |
| 2 | It is evident that the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) does not rest his case on opposition to the poll tax . |
| 3 | ( a ) Contract and the doctrine of mistake Where one party is aware that the offer or the acceptance of the other party does not represent his true intentions but still deals with the other party without disclosing the mistake , the law will abandon the objective interpretation of the first party 's intentions . |
| 4 | who does not switch his allegiance , whatever the cost , |
| 5 | It is most certainly true that Kenyans must decide their own future , but in this case the Kenyan president has taken a decision which does not serve his people well . |
| 6 | There are insights into different characters , but one character has the privileged position of " centre of consciousness " , and the author does not relinquish his controlling position as third-person narrator . |
| 7 | The child sees them and talks about them ; but this does not affect his beliefs . |
| 8 | Men may be forced to change their laws but God does not change his . |
| 9 | For Clement , God does not change his will by the incarnation ; he wills a change in humanity . |
| 10 | He does not change his mind , nor his perception of how ‘ things are in the world ’ . |
| 11 | Just because he is a professor of medicine at Cambridge does not make his findings unquestionable . |
| 12 | The idea being conveyed by such notions as the surrender of private judgment … is that in obeying , say , a command simply because it comes from someone accorded the right to rule , the subject does not make his obedience conditional on his own personal examination and evaluation of the thing he is being asked to do . |
| 13 | However , booksellers may offer discounts at their own discretion on the sale of multiple copies , the idea being to enable educational authorities to purchase competitively quantities of copies , in supplying which the bookseller does not incur his usual overhead costs because of the volume of the business . |
| 14 | A similar result may be achieved if the practitioner is able to use the cash accounting scheme , although he may thereby defer any input recovery if he does not pay his suppliers promptly . |
| 15 | On this the farm worker is most scathing : fresh air does not pay his electricity bill . |
| 16 | It may be useful to say what is to be done if one party does not pay his share of the expert 's fees . |
| 17 | I can guess , for instance , that an academic in the drama field , Richard Courtney , was embarrassed by her in the early days because she does not fit his Sladian view of what drama teaching is about . |
| 18 | But whenever something does not fit his " spirit of Greek art " , he has a notion — and for eighteenth-century aesthetics it is a disturbingly new notion — of development to fall back on . |
| 19 | Lola kept track of patients whose personalities were as variable as the weather ( ‘ One minute Paul says he does not want his wife any more and the next he has changed his mind ’ ) , she listened to their grievances ( ‘ Josef thinks he is fit to work and look after himself ; says he is being kept a prisoner … but he is very confused and deluded ’ ) and even mediated between doctors ( ‘ Dr Freymann said … it must be a genuine case of epilepsy … but … |
| 20 | He does not want his team disrupted and is even more concerned that one might be injured while playing for the county . |
| 21 | Monsieur Jagger does not want his wife to know and we are loyal to him . ’ |
| 22 | Worthy of note was the fact that for the first time in over 20 years we had a pensioner member playing in the event and whilst he does not want his name or score noted . |
| 23 | He has turned his head away , she is glad , she does not want his mocking face listening . |
| 24 | It also follows Pip 's intensely painful and burning love for Estella who does not return his love but merely plays with his feelings under the guidance of her guardian Miss Havisham . |
| 25 | The marketing man on the other hand is full of enthusiasm for this latest onslaught on the market and most certainly does not think his new " baby " is at all routine . |
| 26 | The friend himself does not intend his advice to be accepted for that reason , and is likely to be doubly hurt if he finds out that his advice was judged mistaken on its merits but was followed in order not to hurt him . |
| 27 | But also his very great skill and his dedication — the fact that he was a Jew does not undo his skill and dedication — earned Leo Szilard his luck . |
| 28 | He does not disguise his feelings ; he has been expelled from four schools for not conforming or working hard enough . |
| 29 | Kingsley does not tell his readers what will be , but it is evident that he does not have the welfare state in mind . |
| 30 | Because his heart is devoted to the club , it does not mean his attitude and commitment are always on a par with yours , Les . |