Example sentences of "[pron] does not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 2 | Firstly , they are multi-class , which does not mean that class struggles do not exist . |
| 3 | In this sense , Kant argues , ‘ the dog can not judge ’ , which does not mean that it is fair game for any purpose we might devise . |
| 4 | In passing , it is interesting to note that the General Orders require explicitly that the grounds of objection be ‘ distinctly stated ’ ; notwithstanding this , it is most unusual to find a petition which does not say that the petitioner objects to the order ‘ for the reasons , amongst others , hereinafter stated ’ , and it is very common for the petition to end with a statement to the effect that there are divers other provisions of the Bill to which objection is taken . |
| 5 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 6 | An expert who does not ensure that the question of fees and expenses is determined in advance might , if the question were subsequently disputed , have to sue both to establish the fact that he was owed money ( either as a matter of contract or quantum meruit ) and to justify the amount . |
| 7 | But parliament is far away , and the border of Wales is very near , and is there a soul in these parts who does not know that smuggling goes on day by day , and that life here would be impossible if it did not ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But if there is a substantial enough change in the functioning of the animal we might say that its welfare is poor , even if the animal itself does not detect that its welfare is poor . |
| 10 | They maintain that there could be circumstances in which disobedience is justified even though the law itself does not admit that it is . |
| 11 | Here the companies are now in a position to apply their mineral depletion allowance to 50 per cent of the value of their finished products — and they would be foolish not to take advantage of this measure — but the sentence itself does not say that they actually do so . |
| 12 | But many hospitals have ‘ built-up ’ pockets of specialisms and she does not think that concentrating them on fewer sites would mean the loss of centres of excellence . |
| 13 | In her viva her examiner asks her if she does not think that ‘ dipthongisation in fourteenth century Kentish may have been optional ’ , and her immediate reaction is that ‘ The question made no sense at all ’ . |
| 14 | She does not pretend that Ben 's ordeal resulted directly from the ban , but she believes it contributed to the chain of events which led inexorably to his present stay in south-east London 's Bethlem Hospital . |
| 15 | Perhaps she does not realise that that is a characteristic of people becoming more prosperous . |
| 16 | Perhaps she does not realise that they are buying private water which is in competition with other private water . |
| 17 | She does not mind that you have another lady ? ’ |
| 18 | She does not believe that day care can substitute for the one-to-one relationship between mother and child , and favours the introduction of greater financial incentives and other support for the family care of children . |
| 19 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 20 | She has also lost all hope of repair , she does not believe that her lover will return . |
| 21 | There is no distinction between ‘ me ’ and ‘ other people ’ so she does not realize that the world outside is separate from her . |
| 22 | ‘ The other point which is missing from the statement is that she does not deny that her marriage to Prince Charles is in trouble . ’ |
| 23 | She does not deny that she wished she possessed it but knows she would not be able to stop herself falling into evil if she were to accept his offer . |
| 24 | One does not imagine that the individual concerned would remain in a position of responsibility for very much longer . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps it is the fault of the world in which we live , but people seem to have a great fear of failing , forgetting that failing at something does not mean that one is a ‘ failure ’ at life . |
| 26 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |
| 27 | Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life . |
| 28 | He does not think that we need to have studied , in moral philosophy , the reduction of the ‘ motions of the mind ’ to natural philosophy in order to understand , in political philosophy , the causes of ‘ the civil duties of a subject ’ . |
| 29 | He does not think that knowledge is acquired by demonstrative syllogisms which have maxims and definitions for premisses ; in many places in the Essay he criticizes various parts of this view . |
| 30 | Unlike Hobbes , he does not think that words are general by being collective names for a number of particulars ; ‘ they do not signify a plurality . ’ |