Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God , he said , ‘ doth not bind us to dive into men 's consciences , . |
| 2 | We said that this in no way lessens the grief , but it does perhaps help us prepare for the event . |
| 3 | Shareholders are requested to complete and return the proxy card , but this does not preclude them coming to the meeting and voting in person . |
| 4 | Science , in short , does not care which machine it works for . |
| 5 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 6 | Gedge is seasoned in receiving criticism and does not let it disturb him , but likewise , he does not pretend it has no effect . |
| 7 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 8 | It does not make them feel he is one of them ; it merely makes them feel he has no longer any clout . |
| 9 | But this does not make her feel less irritated . |
| 10 | Knowing about methods of preventing pregnancy does not make you go to the doctor or the clinic and ask for them . |
| 11 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 12 | It is not right to share feelings in a sentence such as ‘ You make me feel … ’ because in actuality the other person does not make us feel this way . |
| 13 | In dieting , failure does not make us try harder . |
| 14 | She still , however , does not make herself known to him . |
| 15 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 16 | Thinking that something will happen does not make it happen . |
| 17 | I agree with Mr. Sedley , for Messrs. Doody and Pierson , that the decision of this court in Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 does not bind us to conclude that the Secretary of State is not obliged to give reasons in this respect . |
| 18 | History does not relate what steps she used . |
| 19 | It might not be just to press philosophical objections , since it is obvious that a rhetorical question does not commit him to ignore even the most imminent of coming events . |
| 20 | If the buyer does not commit himself to acquire ownership of the goods there is no contract of sale and indeed it is inaccurate to describe him as ‘ buyer . ’ |
| 21 | A generous interpretation aids both plaintiffs ( who may need to have service effected before proceeding to judgment ) and defendants ( who can benefit from knowledge of pending proceedings ) ; and the state of destination does not commit itself to recognise any judgment the plaintiff may ultimately obtain , for service facilitates proceedings and does not authenticate them . |
| 22 | At present what we need to note is the recognition of the validity of a description in its own terms does not commit us to acknowledge its pedagogic relevance in principle . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe she does not want him to think that she is surrendering herself too easily , ’ he suggested . |
| 24 | But he denied the organisation was being heavy-handed in making an example of the teenagers , saying he had to prove a point , although the Alliance does not want them imprisoned . |
| 25 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 26 | It conjectures that God/dess , the Source , the Universe , the Force , the Light — or whatever term you wish to use — just might prefer us to enjoy life to the full , to open ourselves to the joy and abundance of the universe ; that All That Is is perhaps a loving force , and does not want us to endure sorrow , poverty and hardship . |
| 27 | Worse ( < ) touch ; does not want anyone to come near him . |
| 28 | But the teacher of this lesson wisely does not want it left as ‘ slack ’ as that : she qualified the listener 's contribution by suggesting she should be in role as a friend , colleague or relation . |
| 29 | Azerbaijan does not want it to happen again . |
| 30 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |