Example sentences of "[conj] does not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rock should not , or does n't intend to , appeal to the intelligentsia , because your balls have nothing to do with your brains . |
| 2 | Trollope portrays her as someone who knows she is cynical and too worldly , but knows she can not , or does not want to , do anything about it . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the degree to which custom , as directly observed , conforms or does not conform to a predetermined stereotype needs to be looked at very carefully . |
| 4 | ( c ) You may find that Halliday 's model of thematic analysis does not apply to your language at all or does not apply to some of its sentence patterns . |
| 5 | The difficulty arises when it is uncertain whether or not the competent adult ( as I call her for brevity ) does or does not consent to the proposed treatment . |
| 6 | There is , I think , no material distinction between interpreting the law for the purposes of applying it , having due regard to article 10 , and interpreting the law for the purposes of deciding , when the point has not been finally decided by the courts , whether the law does or does not provide to a local government authority the right to sue for libel . |
| 7 | ‘ I really do n't much care , ’ she snapped , ‘ about what appeals or does not appeal to that obnoxious mire you call a mind . |
| 8 | The components of a chemical compound can be identified and their concentrations measured , but unless it has already been proved that the particular component identified is odorous at the concentration encountered , such measurements will have little evidential value in proving the odour complained of either does or does not amount to a nuisance at law . |
| 9 | If the ‘ reluctant ’ learner can be introduced to the library — to see a video or hear some music — he or she may be encouraged by the absence of school pressures and associations of poor performance , and by the interest of an adult who is not , nor does not appear to be , part of the school teaching/discipline system . |
| 10 | Curled tight like an embryo that does n't want to be born , like a baby who 's had too much pain . |
| 11 | Or we may be determined to catch a horse that does n't want to be caught ; and if we feel it strongly enough , the horse seems to feel our determination too , and suddenly stops running away from us and agrees to being haltered . |
| 12 | Very often , puberty for example , that depression will become more enhanced , so it might present itself as a problem that seems to be rising out of puberty , but as time goes on and through school help that does n't seem to be resolving that problem , I think that 's the point at which the specialist within the school , the teacher within the school , must think about , ‘ This does n't seem to be resolving itself . |
| 13 | It 's a voice that does n't belong to one of the villagers and she seems not to understand : maybe she ca n't even hear , above the bellow of the drums . |
| 14 | I want to consider , finally , two anomalies : characters using a medium that does n't belong to them ; and two or more characters inhabiting different media simultaneously . |
| 15 | But I 'm beginning to see that there is n't much point in trying to hold on to something that does n't belong to me . |
| 16 | You have something that does n't belong to you , and I want it . ’ |
| 17 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 18 | In spite of your excellent state of preservation , Valerie Cass , I 'm afraid there 's something about you that does n't appeal to me . |
| 19 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 20 | Network File System can provide only ‘ weak clustering ’ , while the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment is ‘ a very large chunk of code not fully shaken out ’ , according to Fitzgerald , and has a lot of baggage that does n't apply to clustering , ‘ when you have SQL access right there ’ . |
| 21 | Do women broadcasters have a sell-by date that does n't apply to men ? |
| 22 | Any businessman that does n't conform to the hiring practices will have funding ceased until they conform . |
| 23 | ‘ ANTA comes from an architectural term for a pillar that does n't conform to classical rule , ’ explains Annie . |
| 24 | To comment on , if the if there 's anything there that does n't read to you as being totally idiomatic . |
| 25 | Our minds wander to an empty place that does not compare to this natural extravaganza . |
| 26 | The French architect Philippe Robert 's new Terra Museum at Giverny , due to open in June , is another fine and thoughtful example of a building that does not pander to a public born with a Mickey gene . |
| 27 | One problem in the business that does not relate to the NBA is technology . |
| 28 | It is a very simple law , which merely observes that the value of a boolean is unchanged by the execution of a guard that does not input to a variable appearing in the boolean . |
| 29 | In its relentless quest to buy up every open operating system technology that does not belong to Microsoft Corp , Novell Inc is reportedly considering buying what is left of NeXT Inc if it can come to terms with founder and controlling shareholder Steve Jobs . |
| 30 | I am now standing outside a gate , outside a window , looking into a life that does not belong to me , and I should rather look away . |