Example sentences of "that do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That doth not smack of observation ; |
| 2 | However , that did not invalidate the expert 's decision , and there was nothing wrong in the expert meeting both of the parties to discuss his certificate . |
| 3 | The Majors were forced to endure a 2½-hour drive to the Canadian capital but even that did not go smoothly . |
| 4 | Men like that did not go out with girls like herself . |
| 5 | Thin cold fingers , that did not move at all . |
| 6 | But that did not originate at the EPA . |
| 7 | America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly . |
| 8 | She broke off abruptly , but that did not make her silent . |
| 9 | But that did not make it any easier to break the news . |
| 10 | She told herself she deserved it , but that did not make the punishment less . |
| 11 | The curse of Ham could be used as an excuse to justify the enslavement of African negroes but that did not make them members of an entirely different species ; and anyway the American Indians were not even black ! |
| 12 | That did not make him a criminal under section 14 . |
| 13 | The fact that I was where I was might be highly unlikely ; that did not make his being there any more likely . |
| 14 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 15 | That did not make the Jaguar very popular . |
| 16 | Under present legislation dedicated funds attracted 35-40 per cent income tax , and that did not make sense . |
| 17 | True , they led to the old Naval Dockyard but that did not generate many heavy goods vehicles and probably none at night . |
| 18 | There could be no other reason , and yet that did not accord with the placidity of his face and his voice , nor did it match with the image Harry was beginning to form of him . |
| 19 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 20 | ‘ As a matter of policy , NatWest chose to shed market share in property lending in the late-1980s , but that did not protect us from bad debts . |
| 21 | However that did not affect the central question of whether those stock dividends were to comprise a capital or income receipt as far as the beneficiary was concerned . |
| 22 | We were acting under the authority of the Security Council for the purpose authorised by the Security Council , and that did not extend to the invasion of Iraq otherwise than for the purpose of driving it out of Kuwait . |
| 23 | The gathering was small but that did not diminish the effect of the occasion as two of only 12 remaining Scottish survivors — out of 500 Scots who fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War — gathered with district council representatives to pay their respects at a simple ceremony . |
| 24 | That did not settle the matter , which ran on for eight years more , long after Ramsey left the diocese of Durham . |
| 25 | But that did not mean that the ethos of a Roman catholic state would be in any way diminished , only that the form of political religious power would be different . |
| 26 | That did not mean Labour-style intervention , but he added : ‘ I do visualise and urge the energetic use of existing agencies and resources , private and public sector alike , to give potentially fruitful initiatives a helping hand . ’ |
| 27 | That did not mean much , since Kursk was itself a drowsy centre with almost no factories and only the main railway line from Moscow to enliven it . |
| 28 | If they were not employed , that did not mean that the legacy was at once void ; but if it was to be saved , all depended on construing the necessary verba sollemnia . |
| 29 | The Labour manifesto did not refer to the issue , but that did not mean that a Labour government would not legislate on it . |
| 30 | Underneath it all , Markby suspected , Simon was badly frightened at the result of his action — but that did not mean he had not intended to do it . |