Example sentences of "does not [adv] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under matrimonial law , moreover , by consenting to marriage , a wife does not impliedly consent to have sexual intercourse with her husband whenever he pleases . |
| 2 | This does not normally involve dismantling the disk drive , you just insert in the drive a special disk to which has been added a small amount of a cleaning fluid . |
| 3 | Drains : A properly constructed system , in good repair , does not normally require cleaning . |
| 4 | Compelling though this line of reasoning may be , it does not yet appear to have won over Mr Gerstner . |
| 5 | The establishment of the Senate does not yet appear to have resulted in any discernible shift of power away from the individual Inns ( Hazell , 1978 ; Benson Commission , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | This in fact repeats more generally what was stated with regard to environmental competence by Article 130R(4) of the EEC Treaty , inserted by the Single European Act , under which ‘ the Community shall take action relating to the environment to the extent to which the objectives … can be attained better at Community level than at the level of the individual Member States ’ , a provision which does not yet appear to have been the object of scrutiny by the European Court of Justice . |
| 7 | I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made . |
| 8 | Her early school reports were peppered with comments , complimentary or judgemental , depending on the teacher : ‘ Margaret has a very active imagination ’ , ‘ Margaret must learn not to go off into day-dreams ’ , ‘ Margaret does not yet seem to have learned the difference between fact and fiction ’ . |
| 9 | Some are published by Kenny McKenzie 's Taranis , an imprint which does not yet seem to have hit the Spring and Autumn Books numbers of The Bookseller . |
| 10 | However , if the institutional arrangement described by Romer and Rosenthal applies , the individual does not freely choose to move from E° to E 1 . |
| 11 | MICHAEL Caine does not just want to star in front of the camera , he wants to star behind it . |
| 12 | Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) . |
| 13 | Ridding yourself of clutter does not just mean organising things into tidy piles , it means either being properly rid of them or putting them in or on something — like shelves . |
| 14 | To leave self behind does not just mean denying oneself . |
| 15 | He differentiates this from outsourcing , which he says covers a much broader spectrum — it does not just involve looking after computer hardware and software , but includes other non-computer-related services too . |
| 16 | The research does not just attempt to see when , where , whether and which people pack more into their lives but to bridge the gap between existing empirical work based on time budgets and more subjective accounts of the process . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 18 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
| 19 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 20 | Even the domestic cat , when it first sees a mouse , does not immediately rush to capture its prey ; instead , it waits until the appropriate moment so as to achieve the highest chance of success . |
| 21 | Such reasoning does not easily apply to finance leasing transactions ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Freeman has now made clear that the Government does not even intend to ask them to . |
| 23 | The notions of men and women as economic beings , or political beings , are discarded by global capitalism , quite logically , as the system does not even pretend to satisfy everyone in the economic or the political spheres . |
| 24 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 25 | Surely if someone says ‘ The earth is flat ’ that does not even begin to cause a belief to that effect in me , nor does someone saying ‘ Cruelty is a good thing ’ even begin to cause approval of cruelty in me . |
| 26 | Even the most generous interpretation of the figures reveals a very modest increase in funding and it most certainly does not even begin to compensate for ten years of cuts . |
| 27 | And yet these are issues which the token recognition paid to the women 's movement in adult education does not even begin to consider . |
| 28 | I fear that does not even begin to address our concern the assurances which were given on the last occasion about the Home Secretary 's attitude by the Noble Earl Lord which will no doubt be repeated later this afternoon , will of course hold good only for as long as Mr Howard is Home Secretary . |
| 29 | The KGB is answerable to no one and does not even need to attempt to justify what it does or how it does it , therefore there is no incentive for it to become more efficient . |
| 30 | She does not have to prove any negligence on the part of the manufacturer and does not even have to rely upon the product liability provisions of Part I of the Act . |