Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many other obstacles to review , such as collusive disregard of inconvenient problems , when management of an institution prefers not to recognize a problem , and a course team does not want to be seen either as having problems , or as inconveniencing management , must be addressed by incorporating external expertise into the review process at judicious points . |
| 2 | The fact that she was basically a kind soul did not mean that she was soft on Sally-Anne or herself . |
| 3 | However , it is not yet clear that the use of a fixation stimulus does not introduce as many difficulties as it seeks to eliminate . |
| 4 | Following the recent decision in Sutcliffe v Thackrah [ 1974 ] 1 AC 727 , which had decided that a certifier under a building contract did not have arbitral immunity , the issue in Arenson was whether the defendants ' valuation of shares was an arbitration . |
| 5 | Such a clause in a contract to supply building materials to a building contractor did not exclude liability for damages payable by the contractor to sub-contractors as a result of delay in delivery ( Croudace Construction Ltd v Cawoods Concrete Products Ltd [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 55 ) . |
| 6 | Watering with a hose pipe does n't take long and weeding as a task hardly exists . |
| 7 | The sub-floor must be smooth , level and dry — any damp-proof membrane must be effective , as using a bitumen emulsion does not ensure damp resistance and any dampness would cause expansion of the conditioned wood blocks . |
| 8 | No , a drug addict does n't get any help . |
| 9 | In the same way , the significance of a particular sequence of impulses in a nerve fibre does not depend on the sequence itself : the meaning depends on where the nerve comes from ( for example , what part of what sense organ ) , and its interpretation depends on where it goes to ( that is , to what part of the brain ) . |
| 10 | A baseball player does n't have to pay for transport . |
| 11 | It 's not a whoop it 's not a whooping cough do n't get me wrong but it 's you know he 's chesty |
| 12 | The modern pressures on a clergy family do not seem to be explained to the laity . |
| 13 | As the director of the Police Foundation , Barrie Irving ( 1984 : 4 ) commented , ‘ Unlike their American counterparts , the British police community , together with their administrators , do not devour large quantities of written material [ and ] if a research project does not produce results which can be acted upon … no amount of careful editing and dissemination will make an impact . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A football club does not close down at the end of a playing season . |
| 15 | A car manufacturer does not design for failure because he believes that his cars will not fail . |
| 16 | Thus a car dealer does not obtain the protection and that is so even if he is buying the vehicle for his own private purposes and not for his business purposes , Stevenson v. Beverley Bentinck ( 1976 C.A. ) . |
| 17 | Her fervour and her depiction of a siege mentality do not transfer too easily to Britain . |
| 18 | in In re R. [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 28 , where he said : ‘ Faced with such a substantial consensus of opinion among judges who have to deal with this problem from day to day , I have to conclude that the powers of a wardship judge do indeed include power to consent to medical treatment when the ward has not been asked or has declined . |
| 19 | What a pity Roman did n't take after any of them , she thought privately , smiling as Christian reached out a rather sticky little hand and tugged the poppy-flowered silk sleeve of her sheath-dress , and then caught at the heavy blonde plait at her nape . |
| 20 | This is particularly well demonstrated in the experimental animal where the emigration of neutrophils through the intestinal mucosa in response to a luminal chemoattractand does not cause tissue damage while intracutaneous inoculation of the same substance does . |
| 21 | A spreadsheet program does n't replace the traditional accounts package as a means of keeping track of where a business spends its money but it be a powerful tool for preparing analyses or projections . |
| 22 | But the results of Fig. 5.2 show that the degree of suppression evoked by a test stimulus does not depend upon whether or not it was appetitively reinforced during the first stage . |
| 23 | I have n't used the word poverty I 've used a phrase about lack of financial resources because it relates more obviously and directly to many of the concerns of the Board for example almost certainly the real reason why there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem is that the income of a village carpenter did n't go near the exorbitant prices being charged by mine host when , to use the good Scots phrase , the cow calved and there was this boom over the crows for the census . |
| 24 | A durium skullsheath does n't come cheap . |
| 25 | If you have just missed a limitation period do not panic , get a second opinion , and keep your firm and your insurers informed . |
| 26 | A shame Ocean did n't blow the whistle on it . |
| 27 | The fact that you are up at the top of a business hierarchy does not confer all-seeing wisdom . |
| 28 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 29 | For a moment Campion did n't answer . |
| 30 | • When the activity of our kidneys is considered , a bed-time drink does not waken us by filling our bladders during the night , whereas a similar drink in the daytime causes urine flow to increase quite rapidly . |