Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , reducing the risk to as low as reasonably achievable ( the ALARA principle ) does not eliminate completely the possibility of a minor or major accident occurring . |
| 2 | On its own the APT does not specify either the number or the nature of the determinant factors . |
| 3 | Tantalizingly he does not mention how the Exhibition went . |
| 4 | This borrowed item , no doubt bequeathed by some burly and well-meaning district commissioner , does not possess quite the same significance in this ambience as it had in its original context . |
| 5 | Yet , such a house air waybill is not made available to the respective airline and does not bind either the airline responsible for the first leg of the journey ( also referred to as ‘ first airline ’ ) or subsequent airlines . |
| 6 | However , the traditional position of the doctor does not fit well the concept of line management in that the greatest power , expertise and control rests with the ‘ worker ’ not management . |
| 7 | But Searle does not show why the computer would not do as well as the Westerner , in conditions where he or it can learn meanings . |
| 8 | Glendinning does not spell out the implications of her findings for service provision but they can be deduced : the importance of flexible day and domiciliary care ; good transport back-up . |
| 9 | But there could be more trouble if the king does not open up the political system or do something about the great disparities of wealth . |
| 10 | Even if there has been an infection , this does not rule out the possibility of food sensitivity : diarrhoea of any sort can sensitize the gut so that foods which were previously eaten without trouble now produce symptoms . |
| 11 | While this does not rule out the risk of a change of regime there , it does cut down the danger of a simple change of heart by the existing government . |
| 12 | This does not rule out the possibility of critique which by investigation of the structure and forms of ideology as materialized expression ( discourse ) , can affect the forms of human practice . |
| 13 | Of course , this does not rule out the use of naturalistic facts so long as an objective notion of validity is employed — the validity of inductive inference could turn on features of the context in which it is carried out , or the perceptual apparatus of the reasoner . |
| 14 | In effect , this means that the use of feminine forms provides more specific information than the use of masculine forms can be said to provide ; it rules out the possibility of masculine reference , whereas the use of masculine forms does not rule out the possibility of feminine reference . |
| 15 | It should also be noted that in many cases they would also facilitate explicit collusion , and so their use does not rule out the ( possibly concealed ) existence of this . |
| 16 | Dr Jeffrey does not rule out the possibility that privatisation might be the end result of the exercise . |
| 17 | While Poulantzas allows that the sort of research designed to sustain this view has some limited use 's he first of all objects that it does not bear out the factual claim that government officials and leading capitalists belong to an identifiable group . |
| 18 | It does not matter why the news reaches him so late . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose it does not matter now the French bitch is leaving . |
| 20 | Zuccarelli Labs also says that the patent does not give away the real secret of the invention . |
| 21 | Even if — which in some cases is a big ‘ if ’ — the patent system does not give away the vital clue to an innovative product of process , innovating enterprises now increasingly prefer to keep their knowledge to themselves in order to preserve their options on when , where and how to market it . |
| 22 | However the distinction between rights and obligations is a crude one that does not reflect accurately the impact of treaties upon third parties . |
| 23 | The power relationship underlies such an instruction because if an employee does not carry out the instruction then managers are entitled to exercise sanctions which are the manifestation of their power — the ultimate sanction being the sacking of an employee . |
| 24 | Although it may be argued that the effectiveness of local social pressures not to take the crime to court declined as a consequence of colonial rule , this change was gradual , and therefore does not explain why the rate of criminal litigation was highest in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline . |
| 26 | The Spanish origin of the catalogue may also explain the absence of a bibliography and index , but does not explain why the Mexicas have replaced the well known Aztecs . |
| 27 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 28 | This still does not explain why the Conservatives fared so much worse than in 1985 . |
| 29 | In particular , emotional attachments may be given a justification which psychologically does not explain why the individual holds the attachments . |
| 30 | does not explain why the rate of investment and innovation in British industry were so low to begin with . |