Example sentences of "it does " in BNC.

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1 This reduces the risk of infection — it does n't eliminate it .
2 At the time you enter a Deed of Covenant , the covenant should be capable of lasting for more than 3 years , and there should be the intention by you that it does so .
3 It does not need a lawyer either to draw up any document or to advise you although you may wish to consult a professional adviser if a particularly large sum is involved or if there are complicated conditions surrounding the gift .
4 It does n't matter if your Executor stands to benefit from the Will .
5 According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace .
6 The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work .
7 It does not take long , however , for Jane to become disillusioned .
8 It is not Naipaul 's ; it does not constitute the author 's testament or confession on the subject of race relations and the rest of it .
9 But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river .
10 But it does not take long to decide that the experiment is being conducted with skill , and that the pursuits have at least a little in common .
11 Here the confusions or uncertainties are the point of the passage : it does n't matter that the particulars of the caption are missing since this sort of thing was always happening .
12 Roth would appear to believe both the claim and the counter-claim as to the value of the text , and to believe , too , both that the Roth part of the book does not represent an exercise of the imagination and that it does .
13 These mistakes mattered — whereas ‘ in the arts it does n't matter if you foul up . ’
14 It does n't mean that your regional accent is going to be bullied out of you , so that you are unable to use it ever again — on the contrary , your accent may in all probability be your most interesting and valuable possession .
15 The language of a classical play is challenging but it does give the student chance to see how early voice training can be used with a very demanding text .
16 To speak of further training programmes now may sound like a mere desperate remedy , but it does n't mean anything as arduous or as expensive as the full training of your drama school .
17 Drama school is n't going to teach anybody to act but it does give the vital techniques with which to act and gives you a chance to make mistakes , experiment and find out about yourself .
18 I think there is always an element of typecasting that is sensible , I mean it does n't have to be restrictive .
19 Maybe it does .
20 Yes , it does .
21 Despite Buckley 's reluctance to play up the siege of Derry as a key myth and his preference for general categories of interpretation derived from various historical experiences , it does seem that the siege has particular significance .
22 The importance of the protestant variant should not be underestimated given the extent of religious practice and the power of religious men within the protestant — loyalist bloc and the grave importance of conceiving of one 's position as absolutely irreproachable , depending as it does on a divine source .
23 When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms .
24 It does no such thing ; rather it defines the circumstances and conditions in which a marriage has ceased to be a source of happiness and strength to those involved and may be brought to an end …
25 The difficulty is that it does not , one does not — not in one 's art , not in one 's life .
26 Yet at the same time there is work done upon it , he wrote , and which remains , as it does not in the mind .
27 And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time .
28 You keep waiting for more but it does n't come .
29 Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am not sure if this will reach you and I know that even if it does you will not reply .
30 They can always start again and it does n't matter .
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