Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind the carrots does n't drop in . |
| 2 | If the Five Nations does n't get in the way , the weather invariably does . |
| 3 | Now as the United Nations does n't have enough on its plate dealing with the problems on earth and obviously they 're er they 're there at the forefront of everything that happens . |
| 4 | Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 5 | Wearing a miniskirt does n't mean you 're a tart ; tracksuits do n't necessarily mean you 're sporty ; dungarees do n't make you a feminist ; and shaving your legs does n't mean you 're unsussed . |
| 6 | Using CFCs in refrigeration units does n't become a problem ( apart from the leakage from breakdown or badly-maintained units ) until the units are redundant . |
| 7 | What 's gone on in the media these past six months does n't mean a thing . |
| 8 | No no , amenity-wise , you 're okay , but I mean amenities does n't make up for sort of living standards you 've got , does it ? |
| 9 | There 's a very nasty atmosphere in this Lab recently , and if a certain gentlemen does n't take a hold of himself there 'll be a mischief done , you mark my words . " |
| 10 | There are high concentrations in the top fifteen inches , but when we get below the next layer , the concentrations become very much less and the ratio of the two concentrations does n't change very much . |
| 11 | If one of your subjects does n't provide you with information , ask another . |
| 12 | Because most kids nowadays are brought up with constant noise of traffic and so covering ears does n't mean anything does it ? because they 're gon na get the information and absorb much more information none of it , none of any use but so do n't get much information from . |
| 13 | The services offered are often generic and when it comes to competing for work from the SSD , ‘ being a Jack of all trades does n't fit easily into the contracting culture ’ . |
| 14 | Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes . |
| 15 | And resting my eyes does n't have much to do with it , I 'm sure , but I 'm darn well going to rest them anyway . ’ |
| 16 | Only the Persian engineer with the sloppy eyes does n't see me as exotic , because he 's that way himself . ’ |
| 17 | After that case was also adjourned , Chris , from Grantham , Lincs , said : ‘ I hope everyone who gave us presents does n't do the same . |
| 18 | I just hope everyone who gave us presents does n't do the same . |
| 19 | Oliver said : ‘ Wanting the keys does n't connect him with the murder . ’ |
| 20 | Bones does n't suit him any more . ’ |
| 21 | Being responsive to parents does n't mean the development of a situation where ‘ parent always knows best ’ about the education of the children and the way that the school should be run . |
| 22 | I mean , just because you do n't have chips does n't mean to say you can stop taking potatoes . |
| 23 | The choice between these two coevolutions does n't come about through advance planning . |
| 24 | What Pound did to English literature and British sensibilities does n't seem forgivable , and I really think that the English were more offended by Pound 's political obsessions than were the countrymen he ostensibly betrayed . |
| 25 | When Schniedau says , ‘ What Pound did to English literature and British sensibilities does n't seem forgivable ’ , he doubtless has in mind certain passages from How to Read , which was originally addressed to the American readers of the New York Herald Tribune Books on 13 , 20 , and 27 January 1929. for instance : |
| 26 | When they 're discarded the single O atoms does n't go and join the O twos to make ozone again it just goes another single O and then when . |
| 27 | And if Sikes does n't return that boy to me , dead or alive , I 'll tell the police about him and I 'll get Sikes hanged . |
| 28 | Police say the owner of the boats does n't want to press charges against whoever was responsible . |
| 29 | The occult power of dictators does n't lie in the fact that they 're clever they 're frequently quite limited , and I think Milosevic is a very limited man but in the fact that they can draw a great number of people and even whole nations into the circle of their mad ideas . |
| 30 | Responding to parents ' needs does n't imply abandoning hard won professional judgement based on knowledge , experience and common sense . |