Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say " a book in which this unequivocally does not happen " because the happy ending which the reader insists on does not need by any means to be a simple , pure , unalloyed happy ending . |
| 2 | The name under which business is carried on does not appear in your advert . |
| 3 | ‘ Just because you say so does n't make it so , however , ’ Candy returned complacently . |
| 4 | Just because a lot of older people say so does not make it true . |
| 5 | Just because the building societies have a backlog of repossessed homes to flog off does not mean the rest of us should be forced to hang on until January for our rate cut . |
| 6 | Mr Burton said the Lloyd 's traditional attitude of pay now and sue later does not apply when an agency ‘ is on notice of breach of trust or fraud ’ . |
| 7 | Once she 's c more or less caught up does n't have to exactly catch up just have some idea of the basic stuff that they 're talking about |
| 8 | You do take a long time to come out has not reached the non strikers and er , some said he had a little reading from who . |
| 9 | The car owner who leaves his car with a garage for repairs to be carried out does not consent to the garage having possession in its capacity as a mercantile agent ( i.e. as a dealer ) . |
| 10 | However , that a constraint is built in does not mean that the animal must necessarily be ( like the hoverfly ) capable only of a rigid , predetermined response to any given value of the environmental parameter concerned . |
| 11 | Therefore , if the wrong person has been assigned to approve a package and the user who should have done so does not agree to the approval , the following steps must be taken : |
| 12 | Just cos they came down does n't make the bit of |
| 13 | Living alone does not mean solitary confinement . |
| 14 | She is acutely disappointed by the government 's lack of investment in the clothing industry in this country , and highly critical of the industry itself , which she says just does n't realise the potential of its designers . |
| 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 | Users who have commented that , " It should look for phrases " or " Why does it do it word by word ? " can only be answered by saying that phrase searching often does not work very well because many books are not described in the catalogue by the phrases which searchers use . |
| 17 | you see the , the doctor does n't , the doctor that came out does n't know his case and , well I do n't think |
| 18 | The effect on the medical centre with erm , possibly , erm , different types of people living there Plans not detailed enough to erm , show for thirty six . |
| 19 | One man who is used to spending millions helping finance transport projects is Frank Borgus , he 's helped oversee privatizations in the U S but from his perspective the B R sell off does n't look attractive . |
| 20 | Just because he is happy to go home does n't mean Suzie should think — |
| 21 | But just because something can be used wrongly does n't mean that it is wrong in itself . |
| 22 | Lying down does not bring on sleep , only a sense of enormous rage . |
| 23 | If the only reading you ever do is the occasional novel or glossy magazine , then the speed at which you read Probably does not matter very much to you . |
| 24 | They are more tolerant of algal growth than most other corals , as filamentous algae or Caulerpa growing nearby does n't seem to cause any problems . |
| 25 | The memory of him lying there does n't worry me , nor the memory of the blood trickling out of his body . |
| 26 | Retaining fertile eggs within her body long enough for them to hatch there does not require major anatomical or physiological changes , so it is not surprising that all the major groups of land-living animals contain species that produce live babies . |
| 27 | Just because we do n't always understand why does n't mean there is n't a reason behind what He does . |
| 28 | He was subsequently charged with involuntary manslaughter , although his lawyer was quick to point out that ‘ Whatever happened certainly does n't indicate that Dr Love is guilty of anything . ’ |
| 29 | Sexual attraction is , of course , a large part of falling in love , yet sex alone does not guarantee intimacy . |
| 30 | Thus , although it is preferable for a definite noun phrase to be assigned a referent , a failure to do so does not justify rejecting the reading altogether ( if that were done , then , for example , the initial sentence ‘ John put a bowl on the floor ’ would be rejected as incoherent ) . |