Example sentences of "[adv] does not [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The sound of automobiles wending their way along the road far below does not reach me ; I hear only a distant occasional cowbell and the cheerful nearer transactions of insects .
2 Just because a lot of older people say so does not make it true .
3 But drafting for a fellow-barrister , though desirable for experience , does not bring one into contact with the instructing solicitor , and so does not nurture one 's own practice .
4 The Minister obviously does not know his head from his Kazakhstan .
5 Six nights together does not entitle you to be lovers in that sense of the word .
6 It is just as unbelievable that the Ministry of Defence apparently does not know what happened to them afterwards , what careers they followed .
7 Determination alone does not get you through life , and these were becoming hard times for me .
8 Money as abstraction furnishes opportunities for possession , but mediates in this relationship to give rise to some separation between the specificity of being and the specificity of having , since money alone does not determine its further use by its presence , and is entirely ahistorical .
9 Therefore , we can not say that the environment elsewhere does not concern us .
10 In the censorship scale obscene literature might be rated as less serious than racist literature but both would have to defer to seditious literature which normally does not find its way on to library shelves .
11 Again , different ‘ normal ’ individuals play their social roles with more or less commitment and conviction , and the individual 's actual repertoire of roles usually does not exhaust his range .
12 However , this still does not tell you what to do in a crisis or if an unexpected emergency arises .
13 But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again .
14 For of all those peppered by the shotgun blast of criticism that came out of the Cleveland inquiry , where in little more than three months 121 children were diagnosed as actual or possible victims of child sexual abuse , only Dr Higgs still does not know her future and faces effective dismissal .
15 So instead they hedge their comments and the end result is the person being appraised still does not know what the organization thinks of them .
16 The situation has been altered since , and although Orkney still does not have its own procurator Fiscal , it now shares one with Shetland .
17 It probably does not matter what title is held by the people who will be dealing with press enquiries , but what does matter is that they should be reasonably au fait with the company and its products .
18 But the teacher of this lesson wisely does not want it left as ‘ slack ’ as that : she qualified the listener 's contribution by suggesting she should be in role as a friend , colleague or relation .
19 If he reasonably does not discover his right until a short time before the last days of the three months have elapsed , then obviously it would probably not be reasonably practicable to give notice in time .
20 But while the Act does not specifically prohibit a constitution on those lines , it clearly does not contemplate it .
21 She does not base her decisions solely on the consensus of the group or the individual child 's desires , but also does not regard herself as infallible or divinely inspired .
22 There is also a particular difficulty with care for the unemployed ; not only is the research team unable to use return to work as an end point , but the patient also does not have it as an objective and he has therefore nothing to aim at .
23 Owen also does not confine himself to writing only one type of poem but uses many different kinds so to appeal to more people .
24 He was the first , best and last of King Arthur 's knights. he now does not know what to do .
25 This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements .
26 The buyer of a bronze often does not know what he is buying .
27 If these ideas are taken together , and if three centuries of physics and chemistry are taken as the model to emulate , it is tempting to suggest that it really does not matter what the actors on the international scene have in their minds .
28 If we ignore , momentarily , the " " murie wordes of the Hoost to the Shipman " " at the end of the tale , and assume that the narrator of the tale is a woman — it really does not matter who she is — the narrator then becomes a close parallel to the wife within the tale : a wordsmith ; a user of language who combines the sordid matere of carnal indulgence with a gilded linguistic cover .
29 But I find the whole performance so persuasive that this really does not bother me much , and I imagine other listeners will feel the same way .
30 Labour Party say they want to tackle crime in and we have , and I hope we will debate later on this agenda , the situation where a Labour Chairman of the Police Complaints Committee turns up a public meeting urging er law- breaking and support for people who are not actually gone to trial an a the circumstances of the events really does not concern us but it 's the fact that leaflets are now circularising this city , printed by our old friends , the resource centre , urging people to join the Defence Committee , which is supported by the University Labour Party , is supported by the West Labour Party and is supported by the Police Complaints Committee no less .
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