Example sentences of "does not even [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Freeman has now made clear that the Government does not even intend to ask them to . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And yet these are issues which the token recognition paid to the women 's movement in adult education does not even begin to consider . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus Lightbown revives a strong argument for the mysterious ‘ Flagellation ’ in Urbino being a Sforza commission and that one of the portraits represents Francesco Sforza , Count of Pesaro ( Bertelli does not even attempt to identify the three mysterious figures in the foreground of the painting ) . |