Example sentences of "[noun prp] does not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still thinking that my drink was spiked in Kansas does n't make me very trusting . |
| 2 | She keeps saying she 's glad Dennis does n't know about us and she hopes he never finds out . |
| 3 | Analogously one might say " that the Earth is round is a fact " , " that Ruritania does not exist is a fact " . |
| 4 | Facts are whatever it is that is expressed by true propositions , and " The Earth is round " and " Ruritania does not exist " both happen to be true . |
| 5 | So how should one define that which both " The Earth is round " and " Ruritania does not exist " have in common ? |
| 6 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 7 | But if the asserted proposition is about Ruritania , then surely it must be false , for in that case the subject term has a reference , i.e. there is something for the proposition to be true about If , on the other hand , the proposition is true , then by the same token it can not be about Ruritania , for Ruritania does not exist ; it is fiction . |
| 8 | Yet even on the most charitable view of facts , one can hardly treat propositions like " Ruritania does not exist " as being on the same logical footing as any other synthetic true singular propositions without throwing into confusion the whole concept of existence . |
| 9 | " Bert does n't know either . |
| 10 | Tiller was mad ; he never forgave me but Jennie just said , ‘ Perhaps Bella does n't want to go so far away . ’ |
| 11 | If Jeff does n't get those soldered allows you to get |
| 12 | Mrs Currie does not agree with the ‘ dual mandate ’ of politicians sitting at Westminster and Strasbourg . |
| 13 | Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county . |
| 14 | Dismissed because of his " too personal " interpretations of environmental affairs , Illes told a press conference that he believed that the environment would be sacrificed as the government struggled for foreign investment and the population grappled with increasing poverty , and added that Hungary does not have a coherent environmental policy . |
| 15 | G. does n't do anything , the purpose of the visit being to see what conditions are like . |
| 16 | G. does n't know where it 's coming from , but waves a hand in the direction of the houses , suggesting a pipe may have been wrongly connected , or a sewer has broken . |
| 17 | The American neo-Marxist Erik Olin Wright does not accept that there is a unified professional-managerial class . |
| 18 | Ellen does n't seem to be on yellow , is she ? |
| 19 | He does n't realise that Gorbachev does n't feel that way any more , and neither does the vast majority of Spaniards . ’ |
| 20 | And Mr Gorbachev does not want Vietnam 's role in Kampuchea to mar his summit meeting next month in Begging with Mr Deng Xiaoping . |
| 21 | And the following month , July 1949 , Acheson apparently issued instructions that it was a ‘ fundamental decision of American policy that the United States does not intend to permit any further communist domination on the continent of Asia or in South-east Asia ’ . |
| 22 | The cruise missile also has not been tested to its full distance overland , because the United States does not have the space . |
| 23 | Currently the United States does not have a droit de suite , a law that mandates that artists receive a percentage of the price of a work each time it changes hands . |
| 24 | The United States does not have a feudal history . |
| 25 | The president , according to the constitution has the executive power that executive power depends to a large part on the willingness of congress to provide the legal framework moments in which there is harmony and cooperation between president and congress tend to be exceptional rather than er a regular feature of the American system and if er the president manages to get something through congress , you can bet that very quickly the president will face some defeat in congress shortly thereafter to remind the president that the United States does not have , contrary to the popular press , does not have a presidential system of government . |
| 26 | The opinion stated : ‘ US agents have no law-enforcement authority in another nation unless it is the product of that nation 's consent … in the current international climate , this country can ill afford an operation that would permit others to argue that the United States does not respect international law . ’ |
| 27 | The United States does not require advance permission . |
| 28 | Improv does n't have columns called A , B , C and rows called 1,2,3 . |
| 29 | John McLaughlin often felt that guitar controllers lacked spontaneous reaction to attack , something that Lampi does n't have to worry about ( though McLaughlin 's new Photon system seems to work quite well over a range of sounds ) . |
| 30 | Mention of Unix System Lab 's Unix SVR4.2 or Univel Inc 's UnixWare does not draw breath . |