Example sentences of "[noun pl] does [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wetness of the rags does not accomplish much but the wood gets heated and the rags may insulate the hot wood and prevent it from cooling too quickly . |
| 2 | Now as the United Nations does n't have enough on its plate dealing with the problems on earth and obviously they 're er they 're there at the forefront of everything that happens . |
| 3 | Even the understated ‘ Dan Dare fins ’ styling of the chrome bridge and pickup covers does not look dated , and although these came to be regarded as obstructive ( the fashion was to use them as detachable ashtrays , or discard them permanently ) the bass would have looked seriously unfinished without them . |
| 4 | ( The fact that the meanings of sentences are more accessible to intuition than the meanings of words does not alter this . ) |
| 5 | And resting my eyes does n't have much to do with it , I 'm sure , but I 'm darn well going to rest them anyway . ’ |
| 6 | Rates of progress are , though , difficult to compare without a common yardstick ; obviously , evaluation of a country 's progress towards its own goals does not aid international comparison , given the differing priorities placed on residential safety and environmental quality by different governments and , indeed , by different local authorities . |
| 7 | Unlike a winding-up , the board of directors does not become functus officio on the appointment of a receiver but the directors ' powers are substantially superseded since they can not act so as to interfere with the discharge by the receiver of his responsibilities and accordingly their powers are suspended ‘ so far as is requisite to enable a receiver to discharge his functions . ’ |
| 8 | Surprisingly , Peats does not detect any marked rise in the average market capitalisation of companies joining the Official List since 1984 . |
| 9 | The relative abundances of such volatiles in meteorites does not match those of the three planets . |
| 10 | But the ability to produce such phrases does not constitute communicative competence in so far as I understand the concept ( Widdowson 1978 , 1979 , 1983 , 1984a , 1989 ) , or as discussed in , for example , Canale and Swain 1980 , and Bachman 1990 . |
| 11 | I am well aware that having three gatherings does not satisfy some members . |
| 12 | Performing ‘ the juggling act ’ needed to reconcile family and employment obligations does however present many difficulties for women . |
| 13 | Neither the historical marginality nor internal colonialism arguments fully explain the action of the state in depressed areas ; the fragmented nature of the responses of capital in such areas does not encourage holistic explanations . |
| 14 | A repetition of the same sin under similarly testing circumstances does not make this a duplicate of 12:10–20 . |
| 15 | What Pound did to English literature and British sensibilities does n't seem forgivable , and I really think that the English were more offended by Pound 's political obsessions than were the countrymen he ostensibly betrayed . |
| 16 | When Schniedau says , ‘ What Pound did to English literature and British sensibilities does n't seem forgivable ’ , he doubtless has in mind certain passages from How to Read , which was originally addressed to the American readers of the New York Herald Tribune Books on 13 , 20 , and 27 January 1929. for instance : |
| 17 | And if Sikes does n't return that boy to me , dead or alive , I 'll tell the police about him and I 'll get Sikes hanged . |
| 18 | Option B , which aims to maintain the most important London commuter-lines does not have any lines running through the densely populated commuter region of North Kent . |
| 19 | While this year 's run of four successive defeats does not ring true , they also possess some senior citizens who relish upsetting preconceived ideas . |
| 20 | It is important to realise that changes in the level of social mobility have no direct connection with patterns of inequality in society : movement between classes does not abolish objective class structures . |
| 21 | The Skein of Geese does n't come cheap , for a start … . ’ |
| 22 | Erm just the the geography of the flats does n't help much . |
| 23 | The pattern of disabling conditions does not show any significant differences between the sexes . |
| 24 | The same antiserum ( generous gift of Dr T.Kishimoto ) in our conditions does not show any detectable inhibition using extracts from either untreated or IL-6 treated Hep3B cells ( data not shown ) . |
| 25 | This international co-operation between clearinghouses does not preclude international co-operation on an individual library basis , nor does it mean that the Australian , UK and USA clearinghouses will not provide a service to individual libraries in another country which has or has not a clearinghouse of its own . |
| 26 | Colouring a few faces brown and celebrating a couple of extra festivals does not constitute multicultural education . |
| 27 | A close scrutiny of films showing lions killing zebras does not bear this out . |
| 28 | Leaving the Conservative Party unchallenged in 17 constituencies does not make political sense . |
| 29 | To control blood pressure at the expense of the blood glucose level or with elevated lipid levels does not represent successful treatment . |
| 30 | The falsification of Kepler 's speculation that the spacing of the planetary orbits could be explained by reference to Plato 's five regular solids does not mark one of the significant landmarks in the progress of physics . |