Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to say that one bank , or one wind direction , is always better than another does not make much sense . |
| 2 | Changing from one configuration to another does not need further hardware . |
| 3 | Different does not mean worse or better , it means different . |
| 4 | For example , the view that taking extra vitamins may be harmful does not ring true ; the possibility of harm is acknowledged but it is one that is regarded as remote and pedantic . |
| 5 | However , since not all antislavery public meetings were under the aegis of local societies or linked to their establishment , the fact that some abolitionist groups were chary of a ‘ populist ’ style of activity before the early 1830s does not exclude democratic implications from all antislavery usages of meetings . |
| 6 | But this does not prevent other functions from being present , lower down in the hierarchy , in texts in which the poetic function is dominant ; equally , the poetic function may be present in texts which are mainly expressive or referential . |
| 7 | Italian league football matches are not televised live , although this does not prevent RAI radio and television from broadcasting a pyrotechnic package of live audio reports from the grounds on a Sunday . |
| 8 | This does not affect all farmers equally , however . |
| 9 | ‘ This does not affect any claims for compensation . |
| 10 | This does not make opencast coal ‘ one of the cheapest forms of energy in the UK ’ , but rather one of great profitability to BC primarily because the full social and environmental costs are not currently being paid . |
| 11 | While this does not make knowable , it facilitates discussion of the efficiency-equity trade-off below . |
| 12 | This does not denote any locality . |
| 13 | This does not exclude negative judgements on Roman individuals who showed themselves inferior to normal standards of prudence or wisdom : even Claudius Marcellus is blamed for his lack of prudence ( 10.32.7–52 ) . |
| 14 | This does not throw any strain on a heart which is healthy but may affect one which is severely defective . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , this does not shed much light on the second apparent paradox . |
| 16 | None of these circumstances pertained during the Jurassic , but this does not mean that mountain-building and the proximity of a large landmass to one or other of the poles , taken together , constitute the cause of an ice age . |
| 17 | Of course , this does not mean that accommodation problems for the old are solved for all time . |
| 18 | This does not mean that deterrence never works , but that its effects are limited and easy to overestimate . |
| 19 | In some cases the knowledge is imputed to the keeper by process of law under paragraph ( c ) , but this does not mean that knowledge of a person not mentioned in that paragraph will be irrelevant : if , for example , the wife of the keeper has knowledge of the animal 's propensities it may be proper for the court to infer as a matter of fact that the keeper also knew of them . |
| 20 | However , although phase space volume on average contracts in a dissipative system , so that trajectories passing through a large volume of phase space end up passing through a smaller volume , this does not mean that distance ( or separation ) is also contracting . |
| 21 | This does not mean that total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours is necessary before one can even begin to experience any recovery . |
| 22 | Notice , however , that this does not mean that pension funds ( and indeed other NBFIs ) played no part in financing the public sector 's deficit . |
| 23 | This does not mean expensive professional photography . |
| 24 | The article goes on to say that this does not mean these Tory papers are working in concert to get the Tories elected . |
| 25 | Everyone 's situation and problems get an airing and this does not mean any loss of respect , but more an insight into shared adult life . |
| 26 | A C4 spokesman says : ‘ Whatever service we choose must be broadly self-financing , although this does not mean wall-to-wall cartoons . ’ |
| 27 | They could simply bounce off one another but this does not liberate any energy . |
| 28 | The literature on decision-making shows that this does not represent actual practice . |
| 29 | Although many delay line effects make use of clock modulation to vary the delay time , this does not give good results in a reverberation unit . |
| 30 | This does not give irrefutable evidence of the participation of the oxycarbonyl unit but it does point in this direction . |