Example sentences of "[pron] does not even [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already dealt with the £420 loan , which does not even come near to compensating students for the loss of £733 in housing benefit and income support . |
| 2 | How does any society protect itself against this kind of comprehensive assault , which does not even need the charcoal , sulphur and saltpetre to make the gunpowder but can find the materials for the application of its marvellous discovery anywhere in the world and in any circumstances ? |
| 3 | 's work , which does not even address psychology specifically , provides clear examples . |
| 4 | Physical geography in general , and geomorphology in particular , could be in danger of developing into a science which does not even attempt understanding of such basic mechanics and principles , partly by analogy with the decline of positivism in human geography . |
| 5 | It is possible , though , to envisage the case of a man who does not even care enough , or think it important enough , to address his mind to the possibility that the woman may not be a willing party . |
| 6 | Amongst the working classes in this area , there seems to be no stigma attaching to a woman with a child she does not even know the father of ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ At the moment she does not even know where she was raped . ’ |
| 8 | ( He does not even make any special point about the dishonesty which there would seem to be in doing this when acceptance of those claims is not the cause of one 's own attitude — to do so would be , from his point of view , to play the moralist rather than the philosopher who should simply describe ethical discourse . ) |
| 9 | The only question is whether they will tell the Labour leader what he wants to hear or whether he does not even know what he believes about the state of Britain after 13 years of Tory rule . |
| 10 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 11 | He does not even know where it is . |
| 12 | By the law of the land , not only does he possess none of it , he does not even have the right to own any of it . |
| 13 | However , he does not even figure in the top 10 of 500 ‘ paper millionaires ’ — whose wealth is in stocks and shares — listed in the January issue of BusinessAge . |
| 14 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 15 | In some species it does not even exist . |
| 16 | It does not even matter what other people are thinking . |
| 17 | It does not even oblige us to assert that nothing but classics , or philosophy , or mathematics , or PPE is education . |
| 18 | It does not even occur to the reader that the baby might have cried one year in Singapore and be picked up by its mother a year later in Aden . |
| 19 | Sun Microsystems Inc , as reported ( CI No 2,118 ) has formed a new software subsidiary that is noticeably more distant from itself than its orbiting planets , so much so that it does not even rate a Sun tag . |
| 20 | And because it was never colonised by a European power , it does not even have the conscience of a ‘ mother country ’ to turn to . |
| 21 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 22 | It does not even follow that the research base should have been developed in any institution of higher education . |
| 23 | Tom Arnold himself is appointed , not elected and , although he reports to a committee ‘ representing ’ the voluntary party , he is not accountable to that committee , nor is that committee elected by the constituency associations on whose behalf it is supposed to act ( it does not even report to them ) . |
| 24 | It does not even include the taking of a blood sample . |
| 25 | In fact , it does not even require memory for the trace . |