Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I think Malcolm also found her attractive , but it was the love that dares not speak its name .
2 Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent .
3 In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed .
4 Either what woman having ten pieces of silver , if she lose one piece , doth not light a candle , and sweep the house , and seek diligently till she find it ?
5 God , he said , ‘ doth not bind us to dive into men 's consciences , .
6 That doth not smack of observation ;
7 … As to the matter of there being no appeal from an arbitrary sentence ; it is true , the case is the harder , because the party is concluded by one judgment , but it doth not lessen the validity of the sentence , nor doth it in any way prove that you shall find out some way to examine this matter at law in a judicial proceeding .
8 Lets not forget this is a SUPPORTERS list .
9 Lets not forget that we have nt bought since Cantona … so another 1.2M …
10 Lets not forget that we have nt bought since Cantona … so another 1.2M …
11 Lets not forget that fact .
12 The midfield 3/4 , presumably including Macca & Strach , will have to get their act together , and lets not beat about the bush , ‘ drop the dead f*****g donkey ’ and play Wallace and Forrester up front .
13 Lets not get carried away with thoughts of another 18 years in the wilderness .
14 Lets not get carried away with this alleged rift .
15 you know , lets not mix our words nice and mealy-mouthed about it .
16 What it basically means is that if someone makes a gift during his lifetime and-does n't die for a given period , that gift is free of estate duty , or partly free .
17 Probably the remedy to try first , two or three times a day especially if there is a thick , milky-white , bland discharge that does not irritate or only very little .
18 Concentration allows you to " switch off " your hearing so that , although the noise gives signals to the brain , it is not recognised as relevant to the purpose in hand , and does not register in the consciousness .
19 She does not register the gesture , but I can feel her watching as we go .
20 Where the opponent does not advance on to your kick , you should generate extra range and power by sliding forwards slightly on the supporting leg as the kicking knee rises .
21 ‘ History , which is , indeed , little more than the register of the crimes , follies and misfortunes of mankind , ’ for instance ; or , ‘ corruption , the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty , ’ and , most chillingly , ‘ all that is human must be retrograde if it does not advance . ’
22 A mere listing of impressionistic and selective evidence of anti-business attitudes does not advance understanding very far [ Weiner , 1981 ] .
23 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 .
24 Although the long tendon attaching to digit 3 will develop initially , even though it does not attach to a muscle , it will not persist unless it does attach .
25 It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) .
26 The fourth merit of Johnson 's approach is that it allows for mobility of jobs between categories , although he does not attach as much significance as Hughes ( 1958 ) to the efforts of the ‘ professionals ’ themselves in this regard .
27 The obligation to make a mandatory offer attaches to the principal member or members of the group of persons who are acting in concert and who obtain or consolidate control ; it does not attach to the company itself .
28 D'Costa ( 1981 ) , herself a Jamaican , considered on the basis of a visit to Britain that Jamaican Creole is spreading " as an identifying group dialect common to all West Indians ' but does not document her claim .
29 On its own , replication does not validate a theory derived from experimental results ; it merely shows that the results are obtainable .
30 His main thesis is that the empirical evidence does not validate the instrumental account .
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