Example sentences of "does not [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such awareness does not govern everything a Home Secretary does or says in public , but it will never be far from his thoughts . |
| 2 | The isotherm for CO2 at 321 K shows that the gas does not liquefy whatever the pressure or volume at this temperature . |
| 3 | The ‘ Thatcher governments ’ of 1979 onwards argued that ‘ the world does not owe us a living ’ . |
| 4 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 5 | ( I may believe Jesus ' teaching to have been exemplary , or that he was a man singularly in tune with God ; but this , as I would argue , does not make me a Christian . ) |
| 6 | But again this does not make me a Christian . |
| 7 | But that support , which the Nobel committee acknowledges , does not make her a guerrilla . |
| 8 | Making passing references to the poor , the black and to women does not make one a radical or even a liberal . |
| 9 | ( This is obviously correct ; one does not make something a business secret by simply describing it as such . |
| 10 | You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations . |
| 11 | Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black . |
| 12 | A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , they all work basically by trying to fit the input into a set of stored templates , and if some input does not fit anything the machine has been given , it simply replies ‘ I do not understand . ’ |
| 14 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 15 | This gives us , if we know the date of the award ( which is easy to discover ) , the exact date of all the external fences or hedges , but it does not tell us the date of the internal fences on the bigger allotments . |
| 16 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |
| 17 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
| 18 | In 1915 , Grand Admiral von Tirpitz confided to his diary : ‘ The Kaiser does not give him a chance . ’ |
| 19 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 20 | An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead . |
| 21 | But the Bible does not give us a miracle on every page . |
| 22 | ‘ Her Majesty is paying your bills now , not the State , but that does not give you the right to behave any way you like . ’ |
| 23 | Your card does not give you the right to overdraw your account . |
| 24 | The mixture of an SD1 engine , Range Rover flywheel and exhaust in a Range Rover does not give you the power that you might expect , so be careful when mixing engine components such as flywheels , camshafts , distributor and carbs from different engine applications . |
| 25 | While the house in the wife 's sole name with a fixed charge in favour of the husband facilitates the wife 's control of the property , this does not offer her the flexibility to move house that might be incorporated when the house is held by trustees until a specified event ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 26 | The bottled woman arouses desire but does not satisfy it a function similar to modern advertising . |
| 27 | It does not indicate what the velocity will be at the same point at another instant or what it will be at any other geometrically similar point ( i.e. a point at the same distance from the axis ) . |
| 28 | He does not know what a hyena can do to a human body . ’ |
| 29 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 30 | So instead they hedge their comments and the end result is the person being appraised still does not know what the organization thinks of them . |