Example sentences of "[det] do not prove " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , this did not prove to be the case . |
| 2 | The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch . |
| 3 | This did not prove possible , but all the same the camp was soon in full swing . |
| 4 | This did not prove that you could n't use whatever it was , simply that you were not in the mood to knit successfully ! |
| 5 | This did not prove a success and he subsequently accepted positions in Worcester , and later in Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 6 | The Forum has tried to collect views through a biennial request to individual organisations and associations to bring forward suggested areas for research but this did not prove fruitful . |
| 7 | Except in the mountainous Balkans , this did not prove possible : and it has more recently been argued that resistance was ‘ seldom effective , sometimes stultifying , frequently dangerous , and almost always too costly ’ . |
| 8 | This did not prove a problem because since 1828 Stephenson 's had been building for abroad . |
| 9 | The fact that they resemble one another does not prove that they have a common referent , however . |
| 10 | This does not prove Weismann 's case , for two reasons . |
| 11 | Efforts are initially made to persuade the parents to bring up the child at home , but where this does not prove successful or is not considered a wise step , some form of full-time residential care is required . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , this does not prove that retinoic acid is the signal : it could be that it merely mimics the true signal . |
| 13 | Gilliland is at pains to point out that this does not prove anything about the way eternal influences affect the workings of the weather machine . |
| 14 | It is surprising how many people go through life breathing inadequately and , although in many instances this does not prove to be too great a problem , in the case of someone with a stammer it can increase their difficulties enormously . |
| 15 | Mathematically , of course , the perception of non-rigid motion is more complex ; but this does not prove that it is biologically secondary to the perception of rigid objects . |
| 16 | However , this does not prove semantic constituency , because coordination is normal only with other elements of the same sort — i.e. elements which similarly fail the recurrent contrast test . |
| 17 | While this does not prove that the first group of subjects were using their left hemisphere and the second group their right hemisphere the results are at least consistent with such a supposition . |
| 18 | This does not prove that there is an excess of DVT in the treated patients , but it raises a justifiable concern . |
| 19 | In the early years of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial expansion the Church militant got itself into some considerable moral tangles , but these did not prove insuperable . |
| 20 | There was the question of cancelling the whole Festival , but fortunately that did not prove to be necessary , and by the end of the week the strike collapsed — and , tragically , the men went back to work having gained nothing . |
| 21 | That does not prove that Sir Peter 's participative style is reponsible , but it does prove that it is not irresponsible — as many bosses would claim . |
| 22 | In the 1970 election the Tories received the votes of 33.2 per cent of the electorate ( as against 36.4 per cent for Labour in 1966 ) , and although this was enough to give them a safe parliamentary majority , it did not reflect massive and determined popular support for the ‘ Selsdon ’ programme of trade union reform plus ‘ rolling back of the frontiers of government ’ ( the promised direct tax cuts were popular , but that does not prove much ) . |
| 23 | That does not prove he did not mean them . |