Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] match the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mick Keebles , the World Cup captain , heads the off-campus contingent , which also includes John Jenkins , a centre who briefly returned to rugby union with Waterloo on leaving Leeds Polytechnic , but decided it did not quite match the real thing . |
| 2 | As with so much of what he envisaged , the reality did not quite match the vision . |
| 3 | But prevailing attitudes towards the Jews at this time among all but a small proportion of the population , discriminatory though they were in different degrees , did not remotely match the anti-Jewish paranoia of Hitler and the activist Jew-baiting elements within the Nazi Movement . |
| 4 | The more valuable the house , the higher the bill , but people 's incomes do not necessarily match the value of their house . |
| 5 | Under the hands and feet of an expert the organ can sound more rhythmical than many people imagine , although it does not usually match the rhythmic or percussive elements of a piano or modern keyboard . |
| 6 | Development through Drama seemed to provide just this and became a set text worldwide , but as with most formulae , the recommended practice often does not quite match the philosophy . |
| 7 | While Smart 's contemporaries failed to appreciate the sublimity of his Song to David , later critics have signally failed to agree on its construction and Smart 's own note of explanation does not quite match the case . |
| 8 | Clearly woman is a philonym , but its meaning does not precisely match the presuppositions of pregnant because it has incompatibles ( e.g. ewe , mare ) which are also philonyms . |
| 9 | But this does not precisely match the presuppositions of pregnant , either , because it has at least one hyponymous expression — female animal — all of whose incompatibles are xenonyms . |