Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As more than half the population do not pay income tax this is at best only a half-truth . |
| 2 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 3 | And to some the left did n't seem relevant to the underground eruption taking place around It . |
| 4 | When a tenant and a potential successor move from one council house to another the tenant does not lose the protection of a secure tenancy and there is no good reason why the potential successor should lose the protection which he has obtained or is in the course of obtaining under section 87 . |
| 5 | Two times half a car does not make a car . |
| 6 | Furthermore such a construction does not sit easily with subsection ( 3 ) which preserves the common law as it existed immediately before the Act which undoubtedly gave parents an effective power of consent for all children up to the age of 21 , the then existing age of consent : see Gillick 's case [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 167C , per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , and at p. 182E , per Lord Scarman . |
| 7 | It is certainly not the case that this can be discerned in the work of all the nouveaux romanciers at the same time ; however , that such a development did indeed take place suggests that a new poetics was being tacitly formulated . |
| 8 | As Bernard said , and I had to agree , private nurses with the right technical experience for such a case do n't grow on gooseberry-bushes . ’ |
| 9 | Those of us who believe that our future and national interest lie in such a course do not do so in a spirit of emotional faith or constitutional adventurism ; rather , we take a hard-headed view of where our economic interests lie and where the money will come from in the years ahead . |
| 10 | Such a tactic does not appeal to the Australian group . |
| 11 | ‘ What is needed ’ he said ‘ is to reassure men that such a procedure does not affect sexual function . ’ |
| 12 | As for the possibility of granting certain persons dispensation from the nationality condition , which was mentioned in the last part of the national court 's question ( 2 ) , the Commission referred to Openbaar Ministerie of the Netherlands v. van Tiggele ( Case 82/77 ) [ 1978 ] E.C.R. 25 and Criminal proceedings against Anton Adriaan Fietje ( Case 27/80 ) [ 1980 ] E.C.R. 3839 , from which it appeared that the existence of such a possibility did not redeem a national measure which was incompatible with Community law . |
| 13 | When you consider the relentless quest for the luxury that has gone into each and every one , the cost of purchasing such a lodge does not seem excessive . |
| 14 | Such a scheme does not save you money . |
| 15 | A reporter , a correspondent , who sends in such a story does not get it from an official news-agency but from gossip — no doubt checked , reliable and trustworthy , simply marked by its lack of official confirmation . |
| 16 | Yet if , like John Cromartie in David Garnett 's novella A Man in the Zoo , such a person did not object to being caged up ( Cromartie enjoyed it ) then we would raise no objection to its continuing , however unenviable we might think it to be ( Garnett 1932 ) . |
| 17 | In other words it is said that a verdict of death aggravated by lack of care may be appropriate once there is an inquest but the availability of such a verdict does not determine the question whether or not there should be an inquest . |
| 18 | The European Communities ' research policy is just one illustration that such a doctrine does not make sense . |
| 19 | Such a clause does not relieve the parties from the obligation to register a registrable sale agreement , it merely suspends the operation of the relevant restrictions until particulars of the agreement have been furnished to the OFT . |
| 20 | Such a clause does not require registration under the Companies Act because the buyer is not creating a charge over his ( the buyer 's ) assets . |
| 21 | Allowing them to make such a decision does not sanction it — far from it . |
| 22 | The evidence of such a writer does not relate to educated StE ’ ( 1968 II : 551 ) . |
| 23 | Such a system does not need to have access to a full-coverage grammar and lexicon . |
| 24 | Needless to say such a constraint does not apply with electric locomotives . |
| 25 | First , such a change does not take place overnight among all artists ; and secondly it is very hard to be certain that a given statue from the Acropolis was actually set up before the invasion . |
| 26 | It is worth pointing out that advocates of such a curriculum do not see knowledge as inert and impersonal but as something which can deeply affect the way an individual thinks , behaves and views the world . |
| 27 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |
| 28 | Such a position does not lend itself to anthropological analysis , since one of the objectives of the discipline is to learn something of value from the practices of the people one is studying . |
| 29 | A person who wields authority in such a society does not do so typically by virtue of traditional rules ( about kingship or hereditary authority , for example ) or because of that person 's supposed special charismatic qualities , but as a result of an impersonal rule which has been consciously created by a rational legislative process , Weber says that the appropriate administrative form for a system of legal authority — because it is the most efficient form — is bureaucracy ( Weber 1969 : chs 3 and 11 ) . |
| 30 | Such a consideration did not arise in connection with Sainte-Agathe , however , and when Jean-Claude felt he needed to refresh his memory of details , we rode cross-country to the village . |