Example sentences of "a [noun sg] does [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means a case does not have to be proved beyond all reasonable doubt . |
| 2 | 'Cos , like , just 'cos you 're gettin' on a bit does n't mean you ca n't wear fab gear an' pull groovy chicks an' that . |
| 3 | If a branch does n't like something what does it get the chance to do ? |
| 4 | Allowing them to make such a decision does not sanction it — far from it . |
| 5 | Similarly the citizen as a taxpayer does not identify himself — and indeed is only partially identical in fact — with the citizen as a recipient of tax-financed benefits . |
| 6 | The difficulty of winning a championship , the strain and gamble it involves , are so great that if a driver does not carry through to the following year sufficient momentum and he does not have the same advantage — of car , team , etc. — that he had the previous year , the results are often disappointing . |
| 7 | The results of Warman 's experiments strongly suggest that in normal language comprehension syntactic processing is not autonomous , in the sense that the time taken to understand a sentence does not depend solely on the amount of syntactic analysis required . |
| 8 | Another common error involving the match between subject and verb involves unrelated ( or so-called " dangling " ) participles , which occur when a participle used at the beginning of a sentence does not match with the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 9 | Equally , the landlord may wish to ensure that a yard adjoining a building does not become obstructed by trade empties or unrestricted car parking . |
| 10 | However , a writer does n't need to have a publisher , and in this case the writer would receive the entire sum . |
| 11 | The evidence of such a writer does not relate to educated StE ’ ( 1968 II : 551 ) . |
| 12 | A pyromaniac does n't throw away the last three matches . |
| 13 | The mere existence of unsolved puzzles within a paradigm does not constitute a crisis . |
| 14 | Needless to say such a constraint does not apply with electric locomotives . |
| 15 | The owner of a firearm is none the less owner because the law prohibits him from discharging it in a public highway ; the owner of a field does not cease to be owner because the public or a neighbour has the right to use a footpath across it . |
| 16 | ‘ A contract does not make a great deal of difference . |
| 17 | ‘ A ceremony in front of a vicar does n't make a marriage . |
| 18 | Prima facie , a creditor does not owe a duty to a proposed surety to explain the security documents . |
| 19 | A waterfall does not have to be prefabricated to be successful and in certain circumstances it is desirable that it is not so . |
| 20 | A buyer does not obtain good title except in the limited case of a market overt between hours of sunrise and sunset . |
| 21 | A link does however exist between manufacturing and function which is often forgotten . |
| 22 | A reporter , a correspondent , who sends in such a story does not get it from an official news-agency but from gossip — no doubt checked , reliable and trustworthy , simply marked by its lack of official confirmation . |
| 23 | A lessee does not have legal title to a leased asset . |
| 24 | It is important to remember that the absence of impurity bands in a spectrum does not mean that the sample studied was pure . |
| 25 | First , such a change does not take place overnight among all artists ; and secondly it is very hard to be certain that a given statue from the Acropolis was actually set up before the invasion . |
| 26 | So great a change does not enter upon the national economic scene unnoticed , like Owen 's ‘ thief in the night ’ nor even conspicuously to the trumpetings of statutory provisions and the flourish of bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 27 | Moreover , ICL 's wholly-owned personal computer reseller , Technology Plc , believes that the company 's new machines are unique in terms of style , their conformance to ergonomic standards — especially as , according to ICL , 1993 will be the year of ergonomics — and their inclusion of ICL 's integrated Powermaster system , which is designed to conserve energy — if , after a pre-defined time , a user does n't operate his mouse or keyboard , then a control program blanks out the screen . |
| 28 | For example , if a user does not have DC Operations privilege then it will not be possible to generate a Design Change , or if a module is password protected then access to that module will not be automatically given . |
| 29 | The force facility can be used as often as required for a particular SPR , for example , if a user does not wish to take responsibility for the SPR or if a user accepts the SPR but at a later date passes the work onto someone else . |
| 30 | In other words it is said that a verdict of death aggravated by lack of care may be appropriate once there is an inquest but the availability of such a verdict does not determine the question whether or not there should be an inquest . |