Example sentences of "it does not [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it does not spring from mere distaste for all that is foreign , hostility to party lists is commonly associated with obsessive and fatalistic mistrust of political parties themselves . |
| 2 | If it does not return to its normal flat state immediately , and stays ‘ pinched ’ without your assistance , then the horse is dehydrated and would certainly benefit from some electrolytes . |
| 3 | Although the long tendon attaching to digit 3 will develop initially , even though it does not attach to a muscle , it will not persist unless it does attach . |
| 4 | The obligation to make a mandatory offer attaches to the principal member or members of the group of persons who are acting in concert and who obtain or consolidate control ; it does not attach to the company itself . |
| 5 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 6 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 7 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 8 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 9 | It does not make for your typical comic fare . |
| 10 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 11 | The government wants to tighten immigration controls , but it does not want to be seen as anti-Semitic . |
| 12 | Its leaders say it does not want to be responsible for any disturbances . |
| 13 | Israel will not be forced to attend a Middle East peace conference over the Palestinian issue after the war is over if it does not want to — and it certainly does not . |
| 14 | But Manchester 's team has remeasured the position of this star and find it does not coincide with the radio position after all . |
| 15 | Where it does not coincide with cultural frontiers , it is insignificant . |
| 16 | It was conceded that where the attitude of respect is based on false assumptions and on nothing else , and where it does not cohere with the person 's other attitudes and beliefs , it can not be the foundation of authority . |
| 17 | It does not end with childhood , of course , but is a life-long process . |
| 18 | Strictly speaking , this second is not a proper rule because it does not end with a single well defined action . |
| 19 | The Ethernet adaptor costs $4,045 and IBM is in no hurry to get it out — it does not arrive until December . |
| 20 | But it does not arrive in Salamanca until about one-thirty the next day . |
| 21 | When any major change occurs , provided it does not arise from events beyond our control , you will have the choice of ( a ) accepting the changed arrangements , ( b ) purchasing another available holiday from us at is advertised price , or ( c ) cancelling your holiday . |
| 22 | The idea that information about identifiable individuals must be handled with care is not new ; it does not arise from the use of computers to process such information , though the rapid development of computer technology in the 1950s and 1960s brought the issue into sharp relief . |
| 23 | It does not arise from the old style but in opposition to it . |
| 24 | It may indeed be exaggerated by our traditional dialectic habits of clash and argument , as I have suggested elsewhere in this book , but it does not arise from them . |
| 25 | When an applicant comes into a priority category or reaches the head of a queue and is offered housing , he or she then has to decide whether to accept the offer if it does not accord with the original preference . |
| 26 | The common law position appears to be that a dealer is not normally the agent of the finance company , and a customer is bound by the terms of the document , unless the finance company knows that it does not accord with the customer 's intentions ( United Dominions Trust Ltd v Western [ 1976 ] QB 513 ) . |
| 27 | This order , from which our modern days of the week derive ( e.g. iii French ) , appears at first sight to be devoid of sense , since it does not accord in an obvious way with the order in which ( according to pre-Copernican cosmology ) the ‘ planets ’ were thought to lie in relation to the earth : Saturn , Jupiter , Mars , the sun , Venus , Mercury , the moon . |
| 28 | But though this may quell doubts about the benefits of the existence of large-scale enterprise , it does not bear on the point that where competition is attenuated a policy of profit maximisation may not be wealth maximising : society might be better served if companies were to lower price and increase output , even though this would be less profitable from the company 's point of view . |
| 29 | Try to keep your dog walking in a straight line , so that it does not pull across you to reach another dog , because otherwise you might trip over the leash . |
| 30 | I received a few not so long ago complaining about this place , saying that it does not speak of God ; that it is a monument to a man-made religion ; that it ought to be pulled down and a block of flats built here instead , and the money spent on missionary work abroad . |