Example sentences of "does not [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It also remains the case that the Cabinet , as an institution , does not rest on parliamentary authority but rather on practice developed over the centuries .
2 Science does not rest upon solid bedrock .
3 His or her belief , as we have defined it , does not rest upon privileged insight into a supernatural reality hidden from the unbeliever .
4 In fact , the employers ' central confederation ( BDA ) does not engage in collective bargaining and , although it does provide information and guidance to its affiliates via its collective bargaining coordination committee , its pronouncements on wages take the form of non-binding recommendations .
5 However , although the overall price rise permitted has been fixed , this does not prevent BT from increasing different tariffs at different rates ( provided it does not engage in Predatory pricing ) .
6 As long as this aesthetic appreciation does not coincide with profitable necessity then this conflict will remain .
7 A market economy that registers only effective demands made upon it may find or tend towards an ‘ equilibrium ’ that does not coincide with full employment , and hence the manipulation of aggregate demand ( especially via the more potent fiscal weapons ) can produce a preferred path for the economy .
8 But country of birth does not equate with ethnic origin and a significant proportion of all minority groups ( 43 per cent ) are now born in the United Kingdom .
9 The article was terminated by a line of words beginning with B. The empty reproduction of information ( a contagion of the Eighties ) does not contribute to rational knowledge and reasoned thought .
10 Once again , this division does not accord with political affiliation ; Baudrillard attacks Marx and Marxist assertions of natural utility with as much vehemence as contemporary critics attack modernist architecture as an elitist imposition of ideology upon the general public .
11 For example , Hemming 's account of lands disputed between the bishopric of Worcester and Evesham Abbey does not accord with other evidence , and nor does the Ramsey chronicle 's version of the difficulties experienced by their abbot early in Cnut 's reign .
12 Because the do document , Patterns of Ministry does not talk about lay presidency !
13 When it does not spring from mere distaste for all that is foreign , hostility to party lists is commonly associated with obsessive and fatalistic mistrust of political parties themselves .
14 Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story .
15 Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings .
16 But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture .
17 Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll .
18 It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again .
19 There are no ghost references in any of the town 's histories and Stamford does not appear in national ghost hunting books .
20 The evidence of such a writer does not relate to educated StE ’ ( 1968 II : 551 ) .
21 That apparatus does not fit with parliamentary self-government .
22 Selection does not depend on simple presence or absence in the cohort , but on relative goodness of fit to the sensory input . ’
23 Indeed , lawyers and others may operate in the belief that international law is an important , though not conclusive , element of the political relationship between states , or that law has an important ‘ symbolic ’ role to play — in other words , it adds credence to the political and moral case put forward by the peace movement in a way that does not depend on international law being ‘ effective ’ .
24 Like Japan 's economic future , it does not depend on basic manufacturing : assembly costs account for just 5% of its sales .
25 These results suggested that in ulcerative colitis , the aberrant mucosal production of IgG1 and IgG2 does not depend on active disease , but is apparently at least partially explained by a genetic impact .
26 The study of litigation or arbitration does not depend on detailed study of the applications of those systems .
27 Critical is the view that the event is stored and that the particular realisation of it in linguistic form is variable and does not depend on stored information of agent , recipient and so on .
28 Strange , perhaps , that the conservative should be more optimistic than the radical , but it is notable that Brideshead does not end in Orwellian despair .
29 It does not refer to naive anthropomorphism , to childish notions of a kind of finite Person resident somewhere .
30 It is difficult to record colour objectively : people 's appreciation of colours obviously vary and , in any case , Nucella does not exist in discrete colour morphs .
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