Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may , for instance , have a general belief that the woman 's wishes in sexual matters are immaterial , so that in a specific instance he does not bother either to enquire or to think about them . |
| 2 | For a change the paddlers are ordinary people rather than white water whiz-kids and the difficulty generally does not go above grade 3 . |
| 3 | Thus a believer begins to ‘ keep God 's word ’ or ‘ walk as Christ walked ’ ( 2:5,6 ) : ‘ he does not go on sinning , because God 's seed remains in him , and he can not go on sinning , because he is born of God ’ ( 3:9 ) . |
| 4 | Good advice based on sound theory , perhaps , but the writer does not go on to say how this separating might be accomplished ! |
| 5 | Whether one defines a conductance or introduces a friction term they are just two different ways of expressing the empirical fact that the electrons ' velocity does not go on increasing indefinitely in response to a driving electric field . |
| 6 | This inner part does not go below fiddle G , so that the violins could lend the powerful aid of their G strings to it ( coupled with other instruments of course ) were it not for the fact that their presence is urgently required to help out the top line . |
| 7 | Yet presidential oratory , however well-intended and even eloquent , does not serve entirely to suppress the truth . |
| 8 | It does not cover simply keeping goods after the accused has discovered that they have been stolen : Broom v Crowther ( 1984 ) 148 JP 592 . |
| 9 | That is not said by way of criticism , because the case does not appear primarily to have been argued before him on that basis . |
| 10 | RIVIERA RAINBOW * , who opened his account with a facile victory in an apprentices ' event on the all-weather track at Lingfield Park last month , does not appear harshly treated in today 's Barbican Handicap ( 2.45 ) at Pontefract . |
| 11 | I know how long it is , how deep , and one does not forget how to swim . |
| 12 | Aristo says objects such as land , slaves , clothing , and silver are also included , because it is clear from legacy of dowry and promises on sale of an inheritance both that the word ‘ size ’ does not refer solely to cash , and that the term ‘ sum ’ ought similarly to be understood , as in the arguments put forward . |
| 13 | Competition does not mean invariably choosing the cheapest service ; it means combining quality and price to provide the best value for money for the service . |
| 14 | " A suitable conclusion " does not mean just repeating your opening sentence . |
| 15 | Self-defence is the art of self-preservation and that does not mean just fighting to protect yourself . |
| 16 | You should also note that when we talk about scale uses , this does not mean merely running up and down the scales like a machine ; scales are there to show you which notes to use , the idea being that you are supposed to make melodic phrases or lines from them . |
| 17 | This does not mean merely showing that two parts of the descriptive apparatus march in step with one another ; the explanation here is a matter of showing that the facts in question are natural consequences of interaction between the meanings of the syntactic constructions as constructions , and the lexical meaning of the individual items that appear in them . |
| 18 | He ends up serving Laban for twenty years , in which time he has his wages changed ten times ( and that does not mean continually increased , either ) . |
| 19 | For example , Standard English does not distinguish between do as a main verb and as an auxiliary verb : He did it , did he ? |
| 20 | There is no extradition treaty between Iran and Britain , though this does not rule out granting a request , if properly formulated . |
| 21 | The trade in the nineteenth century does not stand up to close examination . |
| 22 | The charge made by liberal historians , that the revolutionary ideologies and programmes were the hothouse creation of intellectuals isolated from the masses they claimed to represent does not stand up to close scrutiny . |
| 23 | However , this does not explain how READ could inhibit READY , or any other word of more than four letters beginning with the sequence READ . |
| 24 | Both of these studies show that variation does not lead inevitably to change . |
| 25 | The Alexander Technique does not set out to cure specific symptoms , but it does help to uncover and change those harmful and unconscious habit patterns which , all too often , are the underlying cause of a problem . |
| 26 | This is the limit of MPTN 's ambitions ; it specifically does not set out to enable dissimilar applications to communicate . |
| 27 | A line is drawn under which the base category of the explanatory variable is noted ; the fact that some working class children attend selective secondary schools ( path a ) reminds us that there are some factors influencing attendance at such schools that this particular model does not set out to explain . |
| 28 | What the model does not set out to capture , but which is clearly most important , is the small group interdependence of oligopolistic competition . |
| 29 | Lewis does not set out to make himself cleverer than the reader , stili less cleverer than the authors whom he is discussing . |
| 30 | Although the film is full of comments on the remaining cultural differences between east and west , it does not set out to make fun of the east Germans . |