Example sentences of "does [adv] [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |
| 2 | The buy-out company — premier Brands — has since been doing well and Sir Adrian is confident Cadbury 's shareholders will have nothing to complain about when the new company does eventually go to the market . |
| 3 | Yes , I know much of it does work and is done to improve whatever signal does eventually arrive at the house . |
| 4 | I tell you oh dear , I do n't mind and er get a couple of hours , but er , it does eventually get to the middle |
| 5 | The ensuing debate , however , does little credit to the Mendelians , the more bigoted of whom refused even to believe in the existence of the pads despite the eye-witness testimony of a number of biologists who were later to become household names in their own rights — a list of eye-witnesses that includes British biologists as diverse in their biological contributions as J. B , S. Haldane , W. H. Thorpe , L. Harrison Matthews and G. E. Hutchinson . |
| 6 | The child will discover from experience whether the sword glows in the presence of evil , does extra damage to the undead , or perhaps is a cursed sword that makes it easier for monsters to find and wound Samson . ) |
| 7 | Concentration allows you to " switch off " your hearing so that , although the noise gives signals to the brain , it is not recognised as relevant to the purpose in hand , and does not register in the consciousness . |
| 8 | The obligation to make a mandatory offer attaches to the principal member or members of the group of persons who are acting in concert and who obtain or consolidate control ; it does not attach to the company itself . |
| 9 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 10 | The wider significance of the community power debate does not rest upon the fact that the conclusions of the community power studies can be applied directly , sometimes by the authors of community power studies themselves , to other levels of government . |
| 11 | In many cases the tile does not break in the middle where it is struck . |
| 12 | Make sure that the cotton-wool does not dip into the water and become saturated . |
| 13 | BERGHAUS , meaning ‘ mountain hut ’ , does not originate in the Alps as you might think . |
| 14 | To reject the self-determination of nations and insert the self-determination of the working people would be absolutely wrong , because this manner of settling the question does not reckon with the difficulties , with the zigzag course taken by differentiation within nations . |
| 15 | There does not remain within the artist hidden meanings only known to himself . |
| 16 | But it remains in the BBC 's history even if it does not remain in the history of the Labour Party . |
| 17 | But to say that the planned town required a single ownership of the site does not go to the root of the matter . |
| 18 | While the former does not go beyond the school — seeing the school as both problem and solution — the latter assumes that the education system is entirely successful as an apparatus which reproduces gender and class inequality . |
| 19 | When a research project is written up it will probably not be any grandiose offering ( indeed it will probably be all the better for not being grandiose ) , but if the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy and the statement of results does not go beyond the limits justified by the data then a useful craftsmanlike job of work will have been accomplished . |
| 20 | Well , considering the security here in Great Britain , I hope that they have taken a precaution for that , but then we 're dealing with a person who does not go by the book . |
| 21 | In other words , the proposals are framed in a political and social void which does not engage with the sorts of social , political and economic changes that have recently been experienced by all . |
| 22 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 23 | A practical S-R bistable circuit which does not suffer from the problem mentioned above is shown in Fig. 4 . |
| 24 | It does not suffer from the bias factors operating when documentation is generated , not to regulate practice but to inform reviewers . |
| 25 | The resulting analysis is also an order of magnitude faster for processing and does not suffer from the brittleness of a generative analysis . |
| 26 | ( 6 ) In any event , a Court Scheme is unlikely to be a viable proposition if the board of the target company does not co-operate with the bidder . |
| 27 | Moreover , as will frequently be the case , where the chosen name does not consist of the surnames of all the partners ( including persons held out as partners ) without any addition other than forenames or initials or a reference to a previous owner of the business , the provisions of the Business Names Act 1985 will apply . |
| 28 | Yet the inhumanity does not consist in the ascription of certain cognitive states either . |
| 29 | Neither good taste nor wealth , as its novelists keep telling us , can transform a house into a home , for a home does not consist in the quality of its architecture or decor , but in the quality of the lives that it expresses . |
| 30 | The computer offers many possibilities to the geographer who does not aspire to the world model . |