Example sentences of "does [adv] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that our conceptual scheme is inseparable from the idea of such particulars , he might argue , does not testify to their existence per se . |
| 2 | My body as it is for me does not appear to me in the midst of the world . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ it does not appear to me that there is any ground for contending that the bank appointed Mr. Colin Perry , in any capacity , to procure the signature of Mrs. Perry . |
| 4 | But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed . |
| 5 | It does not appear to me that any sensible distinction can be made in this context between consent and authorisation . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly , if two persons enter into an arrangement for the sale of any particular property , and try to settle the terms , but can not agree , and after dispute and discussion respecting the price , they say , " We will refer this question of price to AB , he shall settle it " , and thereupon they agree that the matter shall be referred to his arbitration , that would appear to be an " arbitration " , in the proper sense of the term … ; but if they agree to a price to be fixed by another , that does not appear to me to be an arbitration . |
| 8 | ‘ It does not appear to me , however , that it has been established that there was sufficient use of the track by cars in the early 1930s to provide the foundation of a claim for a public right of way for vehicles . ’ |
| 9 | Unlike the infant Stephen in Joyce 's Portrait , Titus does not appear to us through his own childish language , but through a " web of ritual " ( a phrase which occurs in the paragraph preceding our extract ) . |
| 10 | Mildred Gordon MP , formerly a teacher , said in her speech that ‘ far too often young children are presented , in schoolbooks and in pictures in school with the vision of the normal , acceptable , happy family as comprising a married , white middle-class man and woman , with two prissy children who are clean , neat and tidy , and yet the majority of children find that this does not relate to their households . ’ |
| 11 | The problem is that the mother does not relate to her child . |
| 12 | The cleansing however required for eternity does not relate to our physical dimension but related to the invisible , eternal soul of man which also bears the scars of sin . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When participant M speaks again near the end , she does not return to her ‘ holiday ’ or ‘ Old Aberdeen ’ , but makes her contribution relate closely to L 's immediately preceding remarks . |
| 15 | It is significant , for example , that Nizan does not refer to his literature as " socialist realist " , but rather as " revolutionary " . |
| 16 | So unlike indeed that Jaynes ( 1976 ) does not refer to it as consciousness at all . |
| 17 | The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves . |
| 18 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 19 | Regrettably , this attitude does not extend to our educational activities . |
| 20 | It may be that with a patient who is terminally ill or aged , the doctor 's obligation does not extend to anything more than the relief of pain and making the patient comfortable . |
| 21 | This special defence does not extend to anything written or said which is not relevant to the discharge of the duty or the exercise of the right which creates the privilege . |
| 22 | But the depth of respect and affection felt for the late leader of the Islamic revolution does not extend to his successors , who have broken into two loose camps of so-called ‘ radicals ’ and ‘ pragmatists ’ . |
| 23 | It is important to stress that this dispute with Marx does not extend to his analysis of the mode of production or to the significance that he gives to knowledge as a relation of production . |
| 24 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 25 | The resistance , to my mind , does not amount to what can properly be called an argument . |
| 26 | Often it does not occur to them that they can speak up , raise their voices in front of people . |
| 27 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 28 | This is closely linked to their passivity : it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world . |
| 29 | If you are fortunate enough to have a friendly neighbour who does not object to you working on your wall from his side of the boundary , then do get his agreement in writing . |
| 30 | Nothertheless there are some general patterns that may be helpfully described even though any individual sufferer may rightly say that the entire pattern does not imply to him or her . |