Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 On the pensions point , he does not compare like with like .
32 It would also allow Mr Lamont to show he does not contemplate any deliberate devaluation of sterling .
33 Pausanias calls the heroes to either side of him ( he does not specify right and left here ) the Lapith Kaineus and Theseus with an axe .
34 It seems plausible to suppose that unless a person enjoys or is soon likely to acquire effective power in a society he does not possess legitimate political authority over that society .
35 In the bathroom the nurse helps the patient to undress , taking care that he does not make any effort which increases his spasticity .
36 He mentions Home Office research suggesting that crime is not as bad as everyone thinks , but he does not mention any of the other analyses and carefully toes the party line .
37 He does not mention this book , but he does quote Lewis to the effect that ‘ nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric , in its modern form , would have been meaningless . ’
38 I think there must be a period for a start when the office or elsewhere is a bit on the nervous and inefficient side as smokers are deprived , but he does not mention this .
39 But of course he does not stand alone .
40 Will he confirm that he does not stand alone in the European Community but that other countries support his firm stand ?
41 However , he does not justify this suggestion by giving the criteria for classifying a mode of expression as a rhetorical device .
42 The irregularity of Cnut 's relationship with Harold 's mother possibly influenced some : the Encomiast claims that Archbishop Æthelnoth refused to crown him , although he does not connect this with Harold 's birth .
43 Gandhi 's tolerant attitude to religions , which will be dealt with in the following chapter , is an indication that he does not consider any religion to have a monopoly of Truth and that includes Hinduism .
44 He may have more tax to pay if he does not survive seven years ( IHTA 1984 , s7(4) ) .
45 But his speculation — so far only seen in outline , in a methodological ( and often polemical ) essay rather than in a series of detailed studies — point to what I believe to be the correct questions even if he does not provide all the right answers .
46 The argument is difficult to uphold in some respects since Furth 's argument seems to be that deprivation of experience is at fault , but he does not provide any suggestions for an approach to maximising deaf people 's performance .
47 This is due probably to the fact that people suffering from aphasia are more likely to come to the attention of a neurologist than individuals suffering from certain kinds of right hemisphere damage which may pass unnoticed by the individual himself such that he does not seek medical attention or is not referred for neurological investigation .
48 He is so busy copying that he does not appreciate such short comments as the lecturer may make , from time to time , to explain why a step is being taken .
49 Even now , a year before the deciding vote , he does not believe that sport here understands what getting the Games would mean .
50 When her husband returns , she first pretends that the cat has taken them , but when he does not believe this reassures him that the birds are being kept hot and that he should fetch his knife to cut them .
51 However , he does not have this negative interpretation of all events or all the time — otherwise he would be permanently depressed .
52 Quite clearly , however , he does not have unlimited discretion .
53 Remember that recovery is a slow but continuing process , and that there is no doubt that the patient will improve , provided he does not have any major setbacks .
54 He does not have any feel for how strategy and the construction of social constituencies of support match up , or for wider social and cultural themes .
55 He does not have any scope for passion , it seems , and yet you are sweetly soft to hold , wonderfully submissive to kiss .
56 It is rather like a child rejecting food he has not tasted because he does not have enough information to make it seem attractive .
57 If he can ‘ pick and choose ’ , I suggest , he is not a citizen , he does not have full political status and he is quite distinguishable on these grounds alone from the adults around him who do not have this option .
58 He does not agree this could be harmful .
59 He does not see formal codes of practice as the real outcome of the new project , however .
60 But with one exception ( to which we shall soon return ) he does not ask such questions about the Romans .
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