Example sentences of "[adv] does [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is primarily an explanatory one , it connects problems and explains why they are problems , and who for , and so does not set up bite-sized problems for the reformer to tackle one by one . |
| 2 | Assuming one is evident , Kondratiev 's discovery alone does not add up to a theoretical framework . |
| 3 | Lying down does not bring on sleep , only a sense of enormous rage . |
| 4 | Between ourselves , I sometimes find myself struggling with the reality of living in a Church which patently does not live out the implications of all this . |
| 5 | The boundary-maintaining function just does not stand up as a function of crime or deviance . |
| 6 | The idea of target setting based purely on ‘ doing better ’ without considering what the cost of that doing better is , just does not stand up to rational examination . |
| 7 | The Opposition policy of seeking to stabilise emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 , while keeping the coal industry at its existing size , stopping the use of gas and phasing out nuclear electricity , is the mathematics of Bedlam — it just does not add up . |
| 8 | Yeah It was n't that it was n't the lumps that bothered me it was the uhum , the fact that the edges just does n't stay down . |
| 9 | It just does n't give up . |
| 10 | ‘ When you know there 's a bird that matches it 's description but you know it 's extinct , it just does n't sink in . |
| 11 | It just does n't add up . " |
| 12 | ‘ That just does n't tie in with what I know of you , the way you feel about your mother and your brothers . ’ |
| 13 | Seventeen and a half per cent is something horrible , it just does n't work out to anything reasonable |
| 14 | I know you need it , the way you read that letter was atrocious Matt if the letter , the word just does n't jump out and tell you what it is , look at the , the words each side of it Christ |
| 15 | It just does n't come up . |
| 16 | Just does n't come out quick mm . |
| 17 | I still think I am the more domineering , but that is only because she is so polite + generally does n't put up a fight ! ( or used not to ! ) |
| 18 | If the problem still does n't clear up , consult your doctor , who can arrange for an analysis of the urine . |
| 19 | The money will help offset big medical bills , but the brothers say it still does n't make up for their suffering . |
| 20 | Although the driver ant colony is an " animal " weighing in excess of 20 kg and possessing on the order of 20 million mouths and stings and is surely the most formidable creation of the insect world , it still does not match up to the lurid stories told about it . |
| 21 | The only site of note is a pass over the M62 motorway , which honestly does n't stand out in my top 10 sights of Britain . |
| 22 | It is on this point that participant observation in practice very often does not match up to the ideal form and some consideration should be given to the situation arising . |
| 23 | ‘ But that theory really does not stand up any more , ’ says Mr Santilli . |
| 24 | Labour 's coal strategy simply does not stand up — first , on environmental grounds . |
| 25 | But Mr Robin Duval , chief television assistant at the IBA , the person who has been most closely involved in monitoring sponsorship , observes : ‘ The widely canvassed notion that sponsors never seek to influence programmes simply does not hold up in my personal and direct experience . ’ |
| 26 | A high proportion of trainees are placed with small employers Without that contribution the funding package simply does not add up . ’ |
| 27 | Froggy 's murder , and even the attack on me , simply does n't fit in with what we know of Jefferson or Harley or even Martinez . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'll coast , looking for an opening but the annoying thing is that sometimes he simply does n't go in and take it . |
| 29 | And it is very stupid for anyone in any position of power to think that what goes around does not come around . ’ |
| 30 | Lawrie Park Avenue today does not live up to expectations . |