Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 2 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 3 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 4 | He had given her a ring that did n't belong to him ; a ring he had stolen as he had stolen Mister Johnny 's safety and Hepzibah 's happiness when he had stolen the will ! |
| 5 | I tried this , but much to my disappointment that did n't work either . |
| 6 | It is a programme that does not describe the final form , but a generative programme that contains the instructions for making the shapes . |
| 7 | Perhaps it speaks to a part of our mind that does not know about self-control — a part that remembers the time when we were entirely in someone else 's power and they , in a certain sense , were in ours . |
| 8 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 9 | Another is pain after stroke that does not respond to narcotics but in some cases is reduced by the opioid antagonist naloxone . |
| 10 | A study showed that the level of stress related illness among employees in a department which provided support as described was much lower than in a similar department that did not take such precautions . |
| 11 | Alternatively , they may have found objective setting a dull ritual that did n't make any difference to anything . |
| 12 | There was a tidal wave of pessi — mistic literature on this theme — The Future that Does n't Work : Social Democracy 's Failures in Britain ( 1977 ) ; The Politics of Economic Decline ( 1979 ) ; Britain : Progress and Decline ( 1980 ) ; and , most evocatively of all , Is Britain Dying ? |
| 13 | That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram . |
| 14 | Furthermore , nothing has yet been said about all the research that does not depend on the collection of data by the sociologist ( primary data ) but instead makes use of secondary data — the wealth of material already available from other sources , such as government statistics , personal diaries , newspapers , and other kinds of information . |
| 15 | A matching spinning frame will also be kept , making an independent unit for research that does not affect routine production . |
| 16 | It entails a testing session to find the end point ( the first dilution of the extract that does not cause the wheal to increase in the 10 minutes after intradermal injection ) followed by prophylactic use of that dilution . |
| 17 | You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned . |
| 18 | Scientists have developed an injection that does n't use a needle and is completely pain-free for the patient . |
| 19 | Ruth heard it in her sleep at first , a far-off murmur that did n't seem to mean much . |
| 20 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 21 | ‘ A very small car that does n't feel it ; the embodiment of neat , economical design ’ |
| 22 | He must seek the advice of the wisest money-brokers and buy a pension scheme if he be self-employed ; he must see to it that he does not over-extend himself on the mortgage front ; he must run a motor car that does n't drink petrol like tapwater and wo n't break him every time it needs a service from a franchised dealer ; above all , he must abstain from vicious pleasures — or if he needs must indulge , then he must do so only in moderation . |
| 23 | You had to look hard to find a car that did n't boast an £80,000-plus price sticker , plus a 200mph-plus top speed or , as was usually the case , both . |
| 24 | In conclusion , Irish patients with colorectal carcinoma exhibit a noticeable hypocholesterolaemia that does not seem to be the result of a compromised nutritional state . |
| 25 | Growth and other manoeuvrings motivated by no logic other than a defensive one are economically damaging by-products of an active market for control , causing a ‘ huge diversion of managerial effort into devising ways to reduce a vulnerability that did not grow out of managerial inefficiency ’ . |
| 26 | It had a pepper-pot effect that did not represent a comprehensive approach to urban regeneration . |
| 27 | Katell Keineg is a marvellous talent , sadly misplaced by her last record company , someone who can and should be an exception to all the Irish acts who make one dowdy album that does n't sell . |
| 28 | The other part handles the manufacture and marketing of a very large range of ‘ effect chemicals ’ whose uses are legion : there is scarcely an industry that does not need them as intermediates to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 29 | Before that , on their left , was a speck of light that did n't come from ditch or cutting , but from the tunnel so laboriously bored , and whose end John 's sappers had now finally opened . |
| 30 | And new ways to make a living that did n't threaten to put an end to living , I might have added . |