Example sentences of "does [not/n't] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And cheap soap is hard and does not lather . ’ |
| 2 | When he is walking outside , the patient has to be specially careful to lift his feet off the ground so that he does not trip . |
| 3 | He does not court publicity having witnessed other ministers who were tipped for the top and never made it . |
| 4 | Prime amongst these , at the present historical juncture , is the European Community ( EC ) , whose progress towards economic and political integration has been slow , a fact which does not dismay its competitors in world trade . |
| 5 | It does not sooth , it does n't blend in : this is what muzak in the elevators of Hell would sound like . |
| 6 | It does not sooth , it does n't blend in : this is what muzak in the elevators of Hell would sound like . |
| 7 | Homosexuality does not birth new warriors for liberation … [ it ] is an accelerating threat to our survival as a people and as a nation . ’ |
| 8 | Secondly , although acupuncture does not tit readily into the currently available clinical trial models , there is no reason why such therapies can not be assessed within the context of clinical trials , by developing new trial methods to facilitate this assessment . |
| 9 | A rat , for instance , carried passively to each of two ‘ goal boxes ’ at opposite ends of a runway and shown that one contains food and the other does not will , when released , run unerringly to the box with food . |
| 10 | Importantly , Sahlins does not privilege one perspective over the other : the British perspective is not treated as better or more informed because to treat it as such would be to accept unquestioningly the categories out of which this perspective constructed its realities . |
| 11 | They therefore tend to assume that after two years the firm ( if it is not a supernormal growth firm ) simply grows in line with GDP , on the grounds that , in the long run , the share of dividends or earnings in GDP does not trend in any significant way . |
| 12 | The upland agriculture/conservation conflict in the UK does not centre entirely on the application of the LFA Directive . |
| 13 | Strangely , staff concern does not centre on the narrow ‘ no opportunities ’ tag but on the much wider context . |
| 14 | In the following chapter I will prepare the way for an analysis of that kind and in Chapter 11 I will propose an account of theory change in physics that does not hinge on the judgements of individuals or groups . |
| 15 | Indeed there is no Mughal who does not know and does not glory in repeating the Persian proverb : |
| 16 | For sequential interviews you need all your wits about you , which means being thoroughly well prepared and getting a decent night 's sleep beforehand so your energy does not flag ! |
| 17 | The essential difference between this offence and larceny is that in larceny the victim does not part with the ownership but in obtaining by false pretences he does . |
| 18 | The pledgor gives the pledgee ( the lender ) some rights but does not part with all rights of ownership . |
| 19 | The distinction is a very significant one , because all the great religions of the world have emphasized how important it is that religion and life are bound up together , that religion does not hive off into some remote corner unrelated to the real world ; all religions do bother about the secular in the first sense of the word — about how life is actually lived and what people are and do , and not just about what they say and believe . |
| 20 | This insistence , however , does not mesh well with an attempted evolutionary account of language , which it is my concern to sketch . |
| 21 | That does not mesh with the reports from the region at the moment . |
| 22 | The voice is utterly firm , and there are no places where it gives notice of coming apart at the seams : she does not sport a ‘ separate ’ chest-register or a ‘ separate ’ floated top . |
| 23 | This remains a mystery , because the 1692 word-book does not cue any music at all in Act 1 . |
| 24 | Even in the Petitioners case , where less emphasis is placed upon status , the Court does not resort to treaty arguments and indeed could not do so , for there was no treaty right of petition . |
| 25 | It does not debar citizens of the Republic of Ireland or of the Commonwealth from membership and election of these is not unknown . |
| 26 | Does not lassitude succeed intercourse because of the quantity of seed lost ? |
| 27 | The main argument for the legitimacy of any authority is that in subjecting himself to it a person is more likely to act successfully for the reasons which apply to him than if he does not subject himself to its authority . |
| 28 | The problem with critical doubt is that it is not doubtful enough : it does not subject itself to its own criteria . |
| 29 | It is n't quite on a par with sending Norman Wisdom to take Khartoum , but it does not embolden the spirit with a warm glow of expectation . |
| 30 | Bedrock does not outcrop anywhere but is nonetheless in a highly weathered condition throughout the site . |