Example sentences of "who does " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early passage separates this man , who does not want to be nothing , from the trading elders of his family — pessimists who could take risks , and were consoled by their religion . |
| 2 | The plot states that an attachment to a strange woman , a woman who does not belong to this community of strangers , is succeeded by a return to the community , and by the dispersal , and survival , of the community . |
| 3 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 4 | Auditions are nerve-wracking for everyone who does them ( and for that matter , for everyone who watches them ) but being sure of your text is the least you can do . |
| 5 | A ballet dancer who does not practise every day loses a lot of skill , as does a musician . |
| 6 | Jay fell silent , slapped child who does n't know why . |
| 7 | I hope you do not approve of this Act — if you do , there is not another man or woman in all this country who does . |
| 8 | Who does n't ? |
| 9 | This means that a child acquiring language who does not yet know what chair means but will acquire the knowledge must already have represented in his ‘ language of thought ’ a predicate of the kind ‘ is a portable seat for one ’ . |
| 10 | Who does , I ask myself ? |
| 11 | The size of the grant will depend on the work you have done , and who does it . |
| 12 | Who does not have to pay the community charge ? |
| 13 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 14 | He lives for us , we can feel him kicking inside the idea 's belly , because the bridge-builder who does no bridge-building is vitalized by the nobody to be and nowhere to go of Dostoevsky 's inexhaustible inventive fascination . |
| 15 | An unfamiliar Derrida emerges from Norris 's book on him , not a nihilist , an artist-philosopher or a joker , but a profound thinker who does not uphold the positions that are popularly ascribed to him : irrationalism ; interpretation as an unending free-for-all ; meaning disappearing in a cloud of dispersing signifiers ; the abandonment of reference and the disappearance ( or death ) of the author . |
| 16 | It takes enviable sprezzatura and self-confidence to perform as a teacher of literature who does not need to feel professional . |
| 17 | And the English reader who does not understand that the punning on ‘ Talbot ’ is painful and all but hysterical , like the punning of Shakespeare 's Hamlet , does not understand Pound at all . |
| 18 | And what , he asks , will happen to the child who does not , bureaucratically speaking , have special educational needs but who never manages to get past Level 2 in any given attainment target ? |
| 19 | ‘ Anyone who does n't believe the White House was was deeply involved … does n't understand the magnitude of the President 's obsession with Noriega or the way Washington works in these areas , ’ said Larry Birns , director of the respected liberal think-tank , the Council on Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 20 | Scott , a 45-year-old theatrical impresario , is the sort of man who does not ask why , but only why not . |
| 21 | A home-owning pensioner over 75 who does not qualify for income support gets a mere 50p a week extra rate . |
| 22 | It is a great rarity in the countryside to find a Communist who does not have an icon hung up at home . |
| 23 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 24 | Any manager who does handle the artist 's money is taking a foolish risk , as well as letting themselves in for an enormous amount of unnecessary work . |
| 25 | We will not sign any artist who does n't have legal representation . |
| 26 | Charlie Mears , the bank clerk , however , is more usually a secondrate poet who does not understand the value of his ‘ dreams ’ , scorning to think of them in terms of actual reincarnations , though these dreams are so vivid that reality and unreality seem mixed . |
| 27 | The man who never makes a mistake works for somebody who does . |
| 28 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 29 | ‘ Your generation just was n't educated , Pop , but I can tell you I hardly know anyone who does n't read French . |
| 30 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |