Example sentences of "[adj] does not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mildred Gordon MP , formerly a teacher , said in her speech that ‘ far too often young children are presented , in schoolbooks and in pictures in school with the vision of the normal , acceptable , happy family as comprising a married , white middle-class man and woman , with two prissy children who are clean , neat and tidy , and yet the majority of children find that this does not relate to their households . ’ |
| 2 | Pension funds must gain approval from the Superannuation Funds Office ( SFO ) — part of the Inland Revenue — to gain the tax advantages relevant to pension funds ( although this does not relate to protection for pension scheme members ) . |
| 3 | This does not appear to be altogether necessary , having regard to the grade of the inclines , but possibly the condition of the bond has induced them to add this so as to prevent the semblance of a hang to the descending tank . |
| 4 | Yet this does not appear to be the case . |
| 5 | Compared with other regions , such as Bordeaux ( 750–950 millimetres ) , Burgundy ( 630 millimetres in the Côte d'Or ; 700millimetres in Beaujolais ) and the Loire valley ( 620–700 millimetres ) , however , this does not appear to be so high . |
| 6 | With the orang this does not appear to be the case ; rather the reverse in fact . |
| 7 | While this does not appear to be such an earth shattering decision , it is one of the few occasions when a coroner 's action has been criticised . |
| 8 | Fortunately , this does not appear to be too difficult : Garland ( 1985a ) , who has provided a pioneer account of the emergence of the biological positivists , would , I think , agree with Jeffery and Matza on the following : determinism , differentiation and pathology . |
| 9 | This does not appear to be the case . |
| 10 | If he had friends or relatives who were hiding or supporting him it would be a different matter , but this does not appear to be the case . |
| 11 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Such a theory predicts that an increase in advantage for a particular visual hemifield should be accompanied by an equivalent decrease in performance for the other hemifield , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Hellige and Cox , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | In fact this does not appear to be the case , substantial recognition differences were observed between exemplars of individual junctions . |
| 14 | This does not appear to be the case , however . |
| 15 | This does not extend to feeding a patient against his will , which I regard as a form of aggressive treatment . |
| 16 | But this does not extend to cases where the loan may be replaced by another . |
| 17 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 18 | This does not refer to measuring effectiveness as we have defined it . |
| 19 | But there is strong support for sensible increases in public spending , provided this does not lead to massive hikes in taxation . |
| 20 | However , this does not lead to any new results that are of physical significance . |
| 21 | The reason that this does not lead to any discrepancy with observation is that all the gravitational fields that we normally experience are very weak . |
| 22 | BBCBASIC(Z80) will tolerate the omission of the separator if this does not lead to ambiguity . |
| 23 | This does not need to be smart or expensive . |
| 24 | In principle this does not need to be done by an accountant . |
| 25 | This does not need to be done explicitly ( e.g. through devices such as " in the last paragraph , I have argued … " ) , but can be achieved by phrases like " this x " , or " the idea that x " ( where x is a term or phrase used in the previous paragraph ) . |
| 26 | ‘ If murder is to be reserved for those homicides which are most deserving of stigma , this does not seem to be one of them . ’ |
| 27 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 28 | In the oceans , this does not seem to be so . |
| 29 | Long term insect action may produce modifications similar to that produced by wood-boring insects on dead wood ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ; Thorne & Kimsey , 1983 ) , but this does not seem to be common . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the proportions of vegetation destroyed in temperate habitats are much less , and this does not seem to be a limiting factor in these areas . |