Example sentences of "[det] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That doth not smack of observation ; |
| 2 | The effect of this was that Central Office , for all its generosity , did not have much control over the selection of candidates in places where the man selected might actually win , and this did not change much before 1914 . |
| 3 | H pylori was identified in the gastric biopsy specimens of six of 17 ( 35% ) rheumatoid patients receiving long term gold injections plus NSAID , which is only two subjects less than the expected prevalence in such a subgroup had they taken NSAID only ; this did not change the overall statistical analyses of the study . |
| 4 | The court held that this did not show an absence of negligence since someone must have been careless in not following the proper system . |
| 5 | This did not show men to be more lateralised visuo-spatially than women as would have been expected . |
| 6 | However , the Attorney-General courteously but firmly warned your Lordships that this did not conclude the question . |
| 7 | It was held that this did not entitle the buyers to reject the whole consignment . |
| 8 | It was held that this did not entitle the seller to take from the buyer the proceeds of the sub-sales of his ( the seller 's ) property ; instead it merely created a charge in favour of the seller which was void because it was not registered under the Companies Act . |
| 9 | The minutes were written by the chairman in his own hand ; in Whitbread 's case , this did not enhance their legibility . |
| 10 | This did not exclude close if unequal personal relations any more than it did in slave societies . |
| 11 | This did not prevent the Family Planning Association in its Dublin and Cork clinics from providing contraceptives freely and students at University College , Dublin from installing a condom-dispensing machine in their Union building . |
| 12 | But this did not prevent Mrs Thatcher from exposing another potential problem in her Financial Times interview : accommodating a trading and reserve currency such as sterling within a mechanism where the Deutschemark has no serious challenger . |
| 13 | But this did not prevent claims being made for motivational research and the like as extravagant as those made for corn cures and patent all-purpose medicines by the pedlars and mountebanks of time immemorial . |
| 14 | I referred his valet to Miss Kenton , but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say : ‘ Butler ! |
| 15 | This did not prevent his deportation . |
| 16 | Dom Pérignon grew blind in his final years but this did not prevent — it rather enhanced — his passion for the art of winemaking . |
| 17 | The mortar men were not trained as Heavy Weapons Troops would be later in the war , but this did not prevent Sergeant Ramsey from getting off a bomb that appeared to go down the hotel chimney , reportedly causing a dozen or more casualties . |
| 18 | This did not prevent later generations of pacifists from taking the NCF as precisely such a model . |
| 19 | This did not prevent him falling off his chair and being sick on the Japanese premier at a state dinner in Japan earlier this year , an embarrassing incident captured by the TV cameras . |
| 20 | But this did not prevent assembly acceptance of the plan . |
| 21 | Although in no sense ‘ a povre Persoun of a Toun ’ this did not prevent him being ‘ also a lerned man , a clerk ’ . |
| 22 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |
| 23 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 24 | But this did not prevent it from acting as an effective agency of government . |
| 25 | This did not prevent his offering Baldwin the Exchequer before he had kissed hands . |
| 26 | Although Colonel Newnham-Davis consistently pleaded for more varied menus and shorter meals , this did not prevent him from ordering and eating , with evident enjoyment and approval , what seems to-day a perfectly astounding meal . |
| 27 | On Poland , an arrangement was made whereby the Communists would form a joint administration with elements of the London government-in-exile , but this did not prevent the country 's long-term domination by Moscow . |
| 28 | This did not prevent her from becoming , likewise , totally seduced by his example . |
| 29 | This did not prevent Minton 's relationship with Susan Einzig becoming , for her , one of the most important in her life and his positive influence on her as an artist endures to this day . |
| 30 | There could be little agreement any longer on the nature of reality or truth , but this did not prevent a wide if vague consensus about the undesirability of dogmatism , superstition , parochialism , unexamined assumptions and unthinking lives . |