Example sentences of "but does [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Mr Gandhi , he does say occasionally that his government reduced poverty , but does not press the point . |
| 2 | Government policy extols the virtue and normality of family care ( DHSS , 1981 ) but does not underpin the policy with sufficient resources . |
| 3 | The legislation will be in force from 1995 , but does not cover the fox , squirrel , bear , mink , polecat , wolverine and wildcat amongst others . |
| 4 | ( a ) The ‘ round ’ dance , which says that food is nearby , but does not show the direction to it . |
| 5 | It subsumes many of our recommendations for literature in our first Report , but does not repeat the list of authors given there nor attempt an equivalent for pupils ages 5 to 16 . |
| 6 | Dr Sagdeev approves , but does not expect the trend to continue , given the budget deficit . |
| 7 | The Commission will have limited powers , although it lacks the full enforcement machinery , to apply Articles 85 and 86 to any merger which does constitute a concentration within the Merger Regulation , but does not meet the turnover thresholds . |
| 8 | The other boy speaks averagely but does not do the rest . |
| 9 | The approach of this book , with its emphasis on the study of specific crimes , reduces but does not eliminate the problem . |
| 10 | But Cronin and Fitch showed that if one replaces particles by antiparticles and takes the mirror image , but does not reverse the direction of time , then the universe does not behave the same . |
| 11 | The sweater is big for her , but does not disguise the shape of her body . |
| 12 | The majority opinion emphasises the subjective condition that the General Assembly must be satisfied of the need for the wider powers , but does not make the power of granting oral hearings rest upon the precondition of failure of its duties by South Africa . |
| 13 | Compare this with the slide-back scooping block which uses the same technique but does not turn the body away . |
| 14 | The character of Doughboy , played by rapper Ice Cube , sells but does not use the drug . |
| 15 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 16 | In 776 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 773 ) records that the Mercians and the men of Kent fought at Otford but does not state the outcome . |
| 17 | Thus , conduct disorder in childhood indicates a high probability that a person will be arrested for a criminal offence in adulthood , but does not predict the type of arrest ( Robins and Ratcliff , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | Supplemental oxygen increases oxygen saturation but does not reduce the incidence of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias . |
| 19 | Supplemental oxygen increases oxygen saturation but does not reduce the incidence of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias or ST segment changes . |
| 20 | ft , which makes Cramlington one of the major peripheral retail developments in Tyneside but does not produce the kind of balanced traditional shopping centre originally intended . |
| 21 | The current recession makes the task more daunting but does not remove the need to tackle it . ’ |
| 22 | Few modern lizards are herbivorous , but Uromastix is a herbivore : it efficiently crops leaves , flowers , shoots and fruit of a wide variety of plants , but does not masticate the food . |
| 23 | ( 10 ) In subsection ( 1 ) above , " the holder of a licence " includes the holder of an off-sale licence but does not include the holder of a refreshment licence or of an entertainment licence . |
| 24 | Unfortunately this only proves that the total costed each month to the various cost centres is correct , but does not overcome the problem of invoices or other documentation inadvertently being costed to the wrong project . |
| 25 | A number of manufacturers provide a filestore facility that handles the storage of data files in a way that uses backing storage efficiently but does not allow the user any opportunity to optimize file performance . |
| 26 | When deciding the environment of the system being modelled , keep in mind the simple definition that applies in this context , ie it influences but does n't control the system , and also the notion that the environment provides the inputs to the system and receives the outputs from it . |
| 27 | Physical security is n't too hot — a key lock prevents the lid being removed but does n't secure the keyboard . |
| 28 | And given his own class position , as an émigré from the upper middle-class , a class serviced by the domestic labour of the working class , it is telling that he understands the contribution of coal to his class comfort , but does n't discuss the contribution of that other " service " , domestic service . |
| 29 | The design and construction of manuals , parts lists , catalogues and so forth is an area that requires more control over the whole document than , say , a word processor but does n't require the control over every item that a page makeup program provides . |