Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb -s] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And resting my eyes does n't have much to do with it , I 'm sure , but I 'm darn well going to rest them anyway . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The difference in their ages does not seem unduly large to me , ’ Wendell interposed . |
| 3 | Backed by the capacity and reputation for quality and service of Sigma , Aldrich and Fluka , SAF 's commitment to its customers does n't stop at supplying the product . |
| 4 | The word ‘ authority ’ and its cognates does not appear once in The Green Book ( which is also silent about police , courts , armies and heads of state ) . |
| 5 | ‘ The campaign of hostility and accusations against this church and her priests does not help reforms , but hinders them . |
| 6 | The young man who has been married at the same time as his peers does not share his wife with them nor do the wives share their husbands . |
| 7 | The bird virus studied by Hayward and his co-workers does not contain its own oncogene and is very much less efficient in causing cancer than those viruses that do . |
| 8 | Pears is probably the best singing actor I have ever seen and heard , but the range of his abilities does not extend to playing a brutal fisherman . |
| 9 | But a list of his achievements does not do full justice to Norman Davis as scholar and person . |
| 10 | If anybody wants a fire certificate and we had a recent case where a notable local solicitor asked us to issue a fire certificate and we refused , because his premises does not require one , or did not at that point require a fire certificate . |
| 11 | The spirit of our times does not believe in the sacrifice of private happiness for public duty , and this can be taken as a sign of moral decline . |
| 12 | But that also is the case , I mean er er , a lot of time th the actual design of our houses does n't lend itself for us to actually look even if you 're you 're permanently looking out the window . |
| 13 | If one of your subjects does n't provide you with information , ask another . |
| 14 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 15 | Wearing a miniskirt does n't mean you 're a tart ; tracksuits do n't necessarily mean you 're sporty ; dungarees do n't make you a feminist ; and shaving your legs does n't mean you 're unsussed . |
| 16 | Prejudice is another human weakness , and like our emotions does not disappear at conversion . |
| 17 | The fact that we find the use of such predicates convenient and essential for our purposes does not prove that they are indispensable in an absolute sense : viz. that the world as a matter of logic can not be completely described without them . |
| 18 | The same antiserum ( generous gift of Dr T.Kishimoto ) in our conditions does not show any detectable inhibition using extracts from either untreated or IL-6 treated Hep3B cells ( data not shown ) . |
| 19 | It should , I think , be emphasised that the present decision of your Lordships does not represent a breakthrough in relation to the principle against self-incrimination ; it is a decision on its own facts in the light of that principle . |
| 20 | He remarks that when the state of our minds does not appear to change we do not notice that time has elapsed . |