Example sentences of "does not [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It does not make him docile or lazy , nor does it interfere with his sexual activities .
2 That does not make them quiescent but it does diffuse their conflicts .
3 ‘ It does not make them nervous , ’ Bloch says .
4 There is , after all , a long history of wife-beating and of genocide , but that does not make them excusable .
5 This does not make them invalid : one should merely put them in their appropriate context .
6 We should rather refer to economic processes which are constituted in a particular place , which of course does not make them local .
7 This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes .
8 ‘ It does not make me happy .
9 It does not make you attractive . ’
10 Remember that getting drunk does not make you smart , witty or sexy .
11 Let me say , straight away , it does not make us invincible .
12 But such theorising , however ‘ moral ’ , does not make us moral theorists .
13 But to accept this does not make it necessary to deny that A-X and B-X associations may be formed and that X could thus act to mediate generalization between A and B , perhaps outweighing the effects of differentiation .
14 Such differences in the behaviour of different cancers of the same organ does not make it easy to identify the right hormones for treatment .
15 We agree that the fact that a completely new organisation , with a unique combination of responsibilities , inherited statutory powers and duties designed for another era and a different institutional framework , does not make it easy for the Council achieve its aspirations .
16 The truth of this does not make it easy to define the teacher 's role in management .
17 ‘ The Act does not make it criminal to use offensive or disgusting behaviour whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned .
18 This does not make it immune from recession : this year Marks and Spencer will restructure ( ie , cut ) its head-office staff .
19 Although Spenser does not make it explicit , this failure occurs not because of further disruptive forces from outside confronting Artegall but through his recall to the court of the Faerie Queene .
20 Most of the food is served through vending machines , but that does not make it uninspiring .
21 This does not make it impossible for a domestic market to be dominated and then abused , but it is far less likely to happen .
22 This does not make it certain that the West will do nothing about other ethnic cleansers ; but it does raise the cleansers ' hopes .
23 This unflinching march to the brink does not make it inevitable that war will begin the moment the deadline expires .
24 The Protocol also grant concessions to ‘ developing countries ’ , allowing the use of 0.3kg of CFCs per person , per year , for a maximum of ten years , but does not make it clear which developing countries are eligible .
25 However , the book does not make it clear where the information about the existence of the letters came from .
26 But Althusser 's own account does not make it clear how this is to be done .
27 We have to wait patiently a little while longer yet to determine whether the new generation Alpha RISC machines have turned Digital Equipment Corp around or whether the company is pursuing the same downward curve as IBM Corp , because the company has still scarcely started shipping the machines in real numbers — but it does not make it clear whether that is a function of supply or demand .
28 for direct processing the track index does not make it clear which records are in overflow and which in the prime data area ; this prevents the first overflow record being retrieved as quickly as is achieved in the two-entry index system — at least while it is the only overflow record .
29 However , one problem with using recognition as a method of assessing memory is that although it gives good overall measures of performance it does not make it clear exactly which details of a stimulus were remembered .
30 Mullineux does not make it clear , however , what the advantages would be of dismantling the Bank of England and the major functions being carried out by the private sector , indeed it is difficult to see of any real benefits , although the disadvantages could be major .
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