Example sentences of "it [adv] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 More recently , the Forestry Commission has planted most of the 721 ha of plantable land it owns in the Western Isles ( almost all of it in Lewis ) , but it apparently does not plan to acquire further land for commercial forestry .
2 The presence of shallow marine sediments of Late Cretaceous age indicate that the region was below sea level at this time and it apparently did not emerge until the Early Cenozoic .
3 It only does not colour the beautiful " gutter " quartet [ 20 ] , where Grimes is not mentioned — a temporary release which is as happy dramatically as it is musically .
4 The importance of affirmation With regard to football it perhaps does not matter very much — people who like playing it or watching it are not likely to be seriously affected by our negative comments ; they will just think that we are stupid and go on playing and watching as before .
5 They 've already written to the Secretary of State and said dear Secretary of State we 're going to send this to you because it is a departure but please Secretary of State do not call it in do not exercise your powers .
6 It just does not shout about it .
7 I I think it 's just words that briefly talking about that issue office states because I think in terms of management it just does not make any sense .
8 The Opposition policy of seeking to stabilise emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 , while keeping the coal industry at its existing size , stopping the use of gas and phasing out nuclear electricity , is the mathematics of Bedlam — it just does not add up .
9 Frankly , it just does not ring true .
10 Would it not help if the board gave a written assurance to the people who 've been complaining here that they will meet them on any occasion to discuss the problem in writing please because from Brenda it appears that it just does not happen .
11 It just does not look that way sometimes because there are as many as three times more losers than winners from the economic transformation .
12 It just did not ring true , ’ said a Paris police spokesman .
13 I tried to start a blues band , but it just did not work .
14 It was an intelligent , thought-provoking script , but in Whitaker 's eyes it just did not work .
15 ’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change .
16 It just says throw it away do not eat it , well what 's the object of it ?
17 It thus does not follow from the inappropriateness of the concession theory in modern conditions that we must accept the normative conclusions of the contract theory .
18 One of the major reasons for the widespread failure of rural developments is that it usually does not serve the interests of the people at whom it is ostensibly aimed .
19 The equipment was usually quite well protected , but the wind was driving rain in where it usually did not reach .
20 But it still does not feel like proper work .
21 We know that it still has a poll tax element , that it will still need a register , and that it still does not relate to the ability to pay .
22 Even if the rattlesnake waits in ambush , it still does not succeed .
23 Although the driver ant colony is an " animal " weighing in excess of 20 kg and possessing on the order of 20 million mouths and stings and is surely the most formidable creation of the insect world , it still does not match up to the lurid stories told about it .
24 This might well be the case , but it still does not answer the question whether it can be said that there is no morality without religion .
25 Even though the method described by Braybrook and Powell ( 1980 ) has moved on since this time , it still does not reflect current knowledge of child language .
26 The exception is the Boston Consulting Group ( BCG ) matrix with its precise ‘ Growth'/'Share ’ axes , but it still does not use DCF .
27 But to her mind it still did not excuse his neglect of everything else .
28 Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished .
29 By lunchtime the department was manic and the pace relentless but it still did not stop the old man who brought back a kettle complaining it did not work .
30 County did not declare its interest since it technically did not own the Union Bank holding , and its market maker was exempt by law from disclosing holdings bought in the normal course of business .
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