Example sentences of "does [adv] [verb] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They maintain that there could be circumstances in which disobedience is justified even though the law itself does not admit that it is . |
| 2 | ’ It does not specify that it applies to all parties to the conflict , and is thus more ambiguous on this point than common Article 3 . |
| 3 | It does not show that it always favours one interest — in fact the contrary seems to be true . |
| 4 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) says that it will be at £36,000 , but the right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) will not tell us and says that he does not think that it is necessary to say so . |
| 5 | The fact that this idiom , which was never spoken on sea or land , is NOT fit for use in the new poetry of 1933–4 does not mean that it is unfit for use in a translation of a poem finished in 1321 . |
| 6 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
| 7 | He reiterates that all knowledge is ‘ ultimately ’ derived from the senses , but explains that this does not mean that it directly comes from it . |
| 8 | If a horse is sensible it does not mean that it is plain and ordinary — like an old pair of shoes — rather , being sensible is exactly that . |
| 9 | To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised . |
| 10 | It is worth bearing in mind , however , that the de-criminalising of an activity ( the removing of an activity from the scope of criminal law ) does not mean that it necessarily becomes generally accepted . |
| 11 | Just because you receive more official letters about a particular payment does not mean that it should be first on the list to be paid off , if it means ignoring other important debts such as a mortgage , gas and electricity , or perhaps the taxman . |
| 12 | But the fact that an error can be explained , even an unavoidable error , does not mean that it thereby ceases to be an error . |
| 13 | This chapter is about selecting a home , but that does not mean that it is valueless if you already have a home . |
| 14 | And just because the fish lives in the water with it , does not mean that it is going to eat it — it would be like you eating mouldy food . |
| 15 | The fact that ahi sā is regarded as the law of the human species does not mean that it is an easy matter to practise it . |
| 16 | But this does not mean that it has to be uninformed and makeshift . |
| 17 | Just because it is a necessary last resort for one refused instruction does not mean that it is necessary for another . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The fact that ‘ I 'll return your umbrella ’ is in the future tense does not mean that it must be a prediction , based on evidence . |
| 20 | Similarly , the fact that ‘ I meant you , not Jones ’ is in the past tense does not mean that it must be based on something one remembers doing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And the court 's position in the constitutional structure does not mean that it has always been deeply engaged in the pressing national questions of the day . |
| 23 | But this does not mean that it takes the conservative stance of necessarily accepting existing definitions of crime . |
| 24 | The apparently well-founded discovery that AZT is not a useful drug for the treatment of people infected with HIV does not mean that it is useless in the treatment of those with AIDS . |
| 25 | But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls . |
| 26 | Just because you receive more official letters about a particular payment does not mean that it should be first on the list to be paid off , if it means ignoring other important debts such as a mortgage , gas and electricity , or perhaps the taxman . |
| 27 | While levels of poverty show no sign of falling , the fact that life is financially poor for many does not mean that it has to be solitary , as Mr. Hobbes has suggested . |
| 28 | In contrast , verbs are particularly frequent in the passage ( 5 ) ; but this does not mean that it is full of action . |
| 29 | The fact that a particular publication does not offer these types of promotion on a regular basis does not mean that it will not be interested in discussing a bright idea . |
| 30 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |