Example sentences of "[pers pn] does not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 2 | It will be better , perhaps , if she does not wholly know that the will is in question . ’ |
| 3 | Amongst the working classes in this area , there seems to be no stigma attaching to a woman with a child she does not even know the father of ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ At the moment she does not even know where she was raped . ’ |
| 5 | She does not quite look at him . |
| 6 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 7 | This means that they must on no account fail us , just as , to take a different level , the woman whose beauty we find captivating must be seen to maintain her attractions : so much so that we ‘ will ’ her to display a beauty that she does not always possess , or perhaps has never possessed . |
| 8 | Elizabeth does not love me , but she does not always hate me , and when she brushes my hair perhaps she means to be kind . |
| 9 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 10 | The new mother is often terrified of making a mistake but she does not really know what is the best thing to do . |
| 11 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 12 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , ’ said McAllister demurely , ‘ he may organise us and look in occasionally , but he does not exactly take part , you know . ’ |
| 14 | Just see to it that he does not also cast his eyes on Ana . ’ |
| 15 | He does not just open his eyes and look and there it is . |
| 16 | But as we can see , he does not just blame Hegel here , for according to Levinas ontology itself is the problem . |
| 17 | ( He does not even make any special point about the dishonesty which there would seem to be in doing this when acceptance of those claims is not the cause of one 's own attitude — to do so would be , from his point of view , to play the moralist rather than the philosopher who should simply describe ethical discourse . ) |
| 18 | The only question is whether they will tell the Labour leader what he wants to hear or whether he does not even know what he believes about the state of Britain after 13 years of Tory rule . |
| 19 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 20 | He does not even know where it is . |
| 21 | By the law of the land , not only does he possess none of it , he does not even have the right to own any of it . |
| 22 | However , he does not even figure in the top 10 of 500 ‘ paper millionaires ’ — whose wealth is in stocks and shares — listed in the January issue of BusinessAge . |
| 23 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 24 | He does not narrowly concentrate on the last week of Jesus ' life ; the entire life of Jesus was an example of sacrificial love . |
| 25 | It need hardly be added that the examiner always wants reasons and authorities for the answer , even though he does not expressly ask for them . |
| 26 | ‘ The man will be a fool if he does not immediately fall in love with you . ’ |
| 27 | Her husband is having an on-off fling which he does not openly admit , but takes little trouble to disguise |
| 28 | Also , he does not adequately discuss how to relate those critical success factors in a logically connected way through a model for improving competitive strength in a specific situation , and fails to recognize that it is essential for a strategic analysis to indicate who is responsible for which central success factor . |
| 29 | I also conclude that , to enable him to make such representations , he should be given such relevant information as he does not already have . |
| 30 | When he gets to Iona , Johnson will walk for the second time in footsteps he does not yet know about , those of the man who caused the folklore — Columba was here . |