Example sentences of "[Wh det] do n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no hiding place for assets which do n't perform . |
| 2 | The only disadvantage of the method is that it can not be used for certain solvents , such as alcohol , which do n't appear to be absorbed by Tenax . |
| 3 | However sources say that all these talks , which do n't appear to have progressed much beyond soliciting proposals from some , have come to nothing and that Sun is now resolved on developing its own terminal , an activity already believed to be underway , perhaps at its East Coast facility , long a champion of such a product . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to know what she was like , and I want to clear up some questions which have been puzzling me and which do n't appear on the record . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ every contract sufficient to make a lease for years ought to have certainty in three limitations , viz. in the commencement of the term , in the continuance of it , and in the end of it ; so that all these ought to be known at the commencement of the lease , and words in a lease , which do n't make this appear , are but babble … |
| 6 | my er thinking on on the on what you said in opening remarks which do n't make it clear to me whether we 've got a basic aircraft with optional extras or a fully specified aircraft from which we can dat deleted certain items of equipment . |
| 7 | When less fluid lavas are involved , which do n't break up into droplets , large gobbets of the molten rock are flung up from the vent , spreading out into irregular plates which may break up in the air into smaller bits . |
| 8 | But a leading Jehovah 's Witness claimed tonight that other treatments are available which do n't break the rules of their faith . |
| 9 | I 'd like to go back to the minutes in terms of matters arising which do n't arise under the the agenda items . |
| 10 | Being Fat is not a Sin , by Shelley Bovey ( Pandora 1988 ) talks about the prejudice and oppression suffered by fat people , particularly women , and about ways to feel good about yourself which do n't involve losing weight . |
| 11 | If you 're after a touch of colour , ‘ false ’ curtains , which do n't draw but hang for decoration only , are one possibility — although you will also need to ventilate the room , opening the window slightly when showering or having a bath . |
| 12 | Since the dawn of a new era , when he signed for Phonogram in 1985 , he 's been making records which do n't shame his reputation and often add to it . |
| 13 | He talks well , he 's travelled to distant lands , he speaks foreign languages , he 's conversant with the arts — more than conversant — and he dresses in clothes which do n't fit the contours of his body and are therefore declared to be fashionable by people in the know . |
| 14 | Non-scientists — and anti-scientists — are often troubled by such apparent unwillingness among scientists to spend time investigating seemingly paradoxical results which do n't fit into current experimental paradigms — corn-circles , ESP , UFOs , aromatherapy or whatever . |
| 15 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 16 | There are a number of species in the universe which do n't suffer death as you understand the concept . |
| 17 | Few mistakes are admitted to , and events which do n't reflect well upon him , like the highly dramatic resignations of the Navy Minister and chief of Naval Staff in protest at his decision to scrap aircraft carriers , are dismissed in two illuminating sentences . |
| 18 | PALE SKINS WHICH DO N'T TAN . |
| 19 | Bear in mind that , even for that amount , you get standard Escort seats , which do n't locate the driver properly in an LX let alone the S. Neither do you get an adjustable steering column . |
| 20 | ‘ I also liked the idea of producing images of people in the public eye which do n't adhere to the unwritten rule of portraiture — that you 've got to make some kind of personal comment about the sitter , capture their essence , if you like — which , at twenty four , I did n't feel particularly qualified to do . |
| 21 | Is n't it rather terrible that what brings the pricking behind my eyelids is not old Eddy 's death , or even the thought of human mortality in general , but certain strokes of rhetoric — certain alliterations , repetitions , and verbal sonorities which do n't hold any literal meaning for me ? |
| 22 | They are tales , moreover , which do n't do all that much to summon the nostalgic reader . |
| 23 | I 'm not just talking about dirty nails — which is already unforgivable — but chewed , picked and bitten nails which do n't do you or your hands any favours . |
| 24 | Young children , not being very familiar with the way words are spelled , often write accurate versions of what they hear which do n't match with the conventions of English spelling . |
| 25 | ‘ There are poisons which do n't leave any trace . ’ |
| 26 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 27 | The new agreement is expected to give Sun new teeth to strike off those which do n't meet its mark . |
| 28 | Do n't forget the birds which do n't eat seeds , such as dunnocks , robins , wrens and pied wagtails . |
| 29 | Banning books which do n't conform to that ideal is another . |
| 30 | Eat the high-fibre vegetables for their value in health and weight control , but by all means add more variety and colour to your plate , if you wish , with these harmless foods which do n't provide enough calories to slow your weight loss . |