Example sentences of "this does [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But this does not prevent the threat from being felt as very real , with all the consequent aggressive reactions .
2 However , this does not prevent the target 's board from criticising the buyer publicly and in circulars to its shareholders .
3 This does not affect the cogency of his criticism and prognostication — the cultural barbarism which he feared has perhaps descended , although not in a form which he could have envisaged .
4 But this does not affect the status of the argument as a valid deduction .
5 However , this does not affect the power of shareholders by agreement to circumvent the provisions of the Act .
6 Although this does not eliminate the uncertainty , it reduces customers ' abilities to switch among suppliers .
7 This does not make the experience any less valid ; it is simply an indication of the difference between the visual powers of one person and another .
8 This does not make the exchange itself a party to the agreement .
9 This does not change the fact that , as far as Gandhi is concerned , ahi sā informs the spirit and the circumstances in which violence is done by him .
10 Later writers , even those sympathetic to Antal 's thesis , have admitted that the argument about class conflict in the period was exaggerated , but this does not exclude the possibility that an equally unexpected approach may not throw light on some apparently exhausted topic .
11 Alterations in diet and even hygiene might well produce indigestion and ‘ traveller 's tummy ’ , but this does not exclude the possibility that the time-zone transition produces similar or additional changes .
12 But this does not exclude the possibility of convictions for the use of physical force well beyond that which may reasonably be expected in a game : the borderline is vague , but presumably the courts will decide particular cases by reference to the degree of violence used , its relation to the play in the game , any evidence of intent , and so on .
13 For example although duration is commonly measured for tantrums , this does not exclude the possibility of measures of frequency .
14 Intravenous infusion of ethanol has not been shown to release measurable amounts of somatostatin but this does not exclude the possibility that somatostatin may mediate the inhibitory effect on the parietal cells .
15 Yet this does not explain the lack of knowledge about the price of maize .
16 But this does not explain the state 's overall function , ; for even when it is controlled by officials drawn from other classes , it continues to serve the political interest of the hegemonic fraction .
17 Of course , this does not resolve the issue of inequality , but it does provide a mechanism through which individuals can focus their view of an acceptable ‘ trade-off ’ between redistribution ( equity ) and efficiency .
18 This does not mean the idea would never work , buttressed perhaps by better antitrust enforcement .
19 This does not mean the abolition of expository teaching , whether in person or by sequenced AV materials ; it means that the whole range of possible methods is thrown open , for the selection of the appropriate mode and appropriate input at any one point .
20 Of course , this does not mean the specialist skills of the district nurse or the health visitor , or indeed any community nurse , would become obsolete , and that specialisation would become a thing of the past in community nursing .
21 Just because they spend thousands of pounds on equipment , this does not mean the cost of this should be passed on to their fans .
22 This does not mean the end of prints and weaves . ’
23 This does not mean the absence of struggle and effort , but the absence of anarchy and emotional fogginess and confusion .
24 This does not disqualify the character from honourable knightly status — think of Tristram and Yseult , or Lancelot and Guinevere — but it does create a degree of tension : the service of a knight to another man 's lady wife is , as the Lancelot–Guinevere tale shows , the classically subversive element within the knightly ethos .
25 To return to the analogy with grammar , one often finds in natural speech , sentences which are grammatically anomalous or incomplete , but this does not deter the grammarian from describing ‘ normal ’ sentence structure .
26 At no point in the document is account taken of the context in which Religious Education is presented in the Catholic school , namely that of a faith-sharing community and this does not presume the commitment level of any individual .
27 This does not effect the quality of the stored image file , but if you require an on screen display of the final image , a SVGA card displaying 256 colours will be needed .
28 This does not give the impression of a Mercian king in control of the south-eastern provinces from the mid-760s .
29 This does not negate the point being made by Fuller and MacDonald : it may still be the case that a different decisional form is more appropriate in a particular area .
30 But this does not diminish the importance of the provisional discoveries which it contains , which the writer has moved to incorporate .
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