Example sentences of "does not [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The Pentagon does not care to be investigated by the FBI .
2 True education does not consist in being taught just anything , any more than true religion consists in believing just anything .
3 In a series of clumsily transalted catch-all statements he declared , Arte Povera ‘ does not aspire to be a unique definition of works of art ’ .
4 He considers religion without morality to be inconceivable , and if it denies any of the virtues we normally associate with morality , such as , truth , mercy and goodness , it does not deserve to be called religion .
5 Should it be unconcerned with the practical affairs of men and take no action to solve men 's problems it does not deserve to be called religion .
6 There were a few diplomatic handshakes as the players left the field at the end , but it seemed a relief that an extra week lay between this Test match and the next , and it could only be hoped that work would continue behind the scenes to impress upon these cricketers , especially the more excitable ones , that the game does not deserve to be abused .
7 Phena , despite her odd ways , does not deserve to be hurt further , does not deserve to have it all dragged up and dissected . ’
8 Still , while it does not pretend to be comprehensive , The Spirit of the Letter manages to provoke many questions about the protean and varied role of lettering , from typography to bravura calligraphy , public inscriptions to computer-generated letter forms .
9 In contrast , the style of some of the chapters of this book does not pretend to be academic .
10 The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions .
11 What follows does not pretend to be an exhaustive summary .
12 His paper is , therefore , partisan — it does not pretend to be other and it is itself part of the discourse in support of psychodynamic theory .
13 The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media .
14 As it happens , the telephone does not appear to be working .
15 This does not appear to be altogether necessary , having regard to the grade of the inclines , but possibly the condition of the bond has induced them to add this so as to prevent the semblance of a hang to the descending tank .
16 Oil does not appear to be emanating from either the filler cap or the dip stick tube and no obvious cause is apparent .
17 Admonition alone does not appear to be enough .
18 There are unquantified provisions in MAFF 's regulations for reducing the number of HLCAs paid where land ( including common land ) is ‘ overgrazed ’ but there does not appear to be one instance of MAFF ( nor of WOAD in Wales ) enforcing this provision .
19 There does not appear to be any threat to individual species from agriculture .
20 Yet this does not appear to be the case .
21 Several studies have reported a positive association with ischaemic heart disease , but after correction for the effect of cholesterol serum triglyceride does not appear to be an independent risk factor ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) .
22 There does not appear to be any preference for particular types : worldwide issues and trends , market research , attitudinal surveys were all mentioned .
23 We are left with only five texts in which the linguistic confusion does not appear to be attributable to textual interference .
24 Examples are provided of the use of medication , including stopping such treatment when it does not appear to be helping a patient .
25 In a few cases home-based treatment using the same approach may be helpful , although large-scale use of domiciliary treatment does not appear to be justified .
26 Attendance at lectures does not appear to be affected by the availability of outline notes .
27 When a lion gets close enough to strike , it usually does so with great skill and confidence and does not appear to be miscalculating its position to the slightest degree .
28 At first sight the cone shell does not appear to be particularly dangerous but it carries a secret weapon that can cause an unusually painful death .
29 If the ‘ reluctant ’ learner can be introduced to the library — to see a video or hear some music — he or she may be encouraged by the absence of school pressures and associations of poor performance , and by the interest of an adult who is not , nor does not appear to be , part of the school teaching/discipline system .
30 Now , Major has an opportunity to redress the balance and , at first sight of his celebratory reshuffle , he does not appear to be squandering it .
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