Example sentences of "a [noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principles in relation to the taxation of costs after a trial do not prevent the parties reaching their own agreement about costs where a settlement is effected before trial . |
| 2 | Further , he might find it interesting ( and salutary ) to read ( see , for example , [ 71 ] , [ 115 ] ) how such great mathematicians as Euler , d'Alembert and Daniel Bernoulli came , around 1750 , to arguing about their respective solutions to the " vibrating string " problem essentially because their ideas as to what constituted a function did not coincide . |
| 3 | This means a case does not have to be proved beyond all reasonable doubt . |
| 4 | As Bernard said , and I had to agree , private nurses with the right technical experience for such a case do n't grow on gooseberry-bushes . ’ |
| 5 | 'Cos , like , just 'cos you 're gettin' on a bit does n't mean you ca n't wear fab gear an' pull groovy chicks an' that . |
| 6 | alright , mind you I still get a bit nervous now , I get a bit do n't know why , I always |
| 7 | I du n no , they 're a bit funny , they 're a bit do n't wan na talk ! |
| 8 | If a branch does n't like something what does it get the chance to do ? |
| 9 | The fact that her husband had a mistress did n't diminish the affection he had for his wife . |
| 10 | It is worth pointing out that advocates of such a curriculum do not see knowledge as inert and impersonal but as something which can deeply affect the way an individual thinks , behaves and views the world . |
| 11 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |
| 12 | Allowing them to make such a decision does not sanction it — far from it . |
| 13 | The relief of having made a decision did not last . |
| 14 | Similarly the citizen as a taxpayer does not identify himself — and indeed is only partially identical in fact — with the citizen as a recipient of tax-financed benefits . |
| 15 | The difficulty of winning a championship , the strain and gamble it involves , are so great that if a driver does not carry through to the following year sufficient momentum and he does not have the same advantage — of car , team , etc. — that he had the previous year , the results are often disappointing . |
| 16 | Those of us who believe that our future and national interest lie in such a course do not do so in a spirit of emotional faith or constitutional adventurism ; rather , we take a hard-headed view of where our economic interests lie and where the money will come from in the years ahead . |
| 17 | The results of Warman 's experiments strongly suggest that in normal language comprehension syntactic processing is not autonomous , in the sense that the time taken to understand a sentence does not depend solely on the amount of syntactic analysis required . |
| 18 | Another common error involving the match between subject and verb involves unrelated ( or so-called " dangling " ) participles , which occur when a participle used at the beginning of a sentence does not match with the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 19 | Equally , the landlord may wish to ensure that a yard adjoining a building does not become obstructed by trade empties or unrestricted car parking . |
| 20 | Therefore the usual periods of calm and quiet in the routine of a building do not exist , for example , outside normal office hours , over the weekend and during the annual holidays . |
| 21 | However , a writer does n't need to have a publisher , and in this case the writer would receive the entire sum . |
| 22 | The evidence of such a writer does not relate to educated StE ’ ( 1968 II : 551 ) . |
| 23 | In those days , if a writer did n't get approval from the Lord Chamberlain , councils had to approve the plays being presented in their areas . |
| 24 | A pyromaniac does n't throw away the last three matches . |
| 25 | The mere existence of unsolved puzzles within a paradigm does not constitute a crisis . |
| 26 | Scientists working within a paradigm do not look for major discoveries ; they simply try to solve the problems posed by the current paradigm . |
| 27 | Needless to say such a constraint does not apply with electric locomotives . |
| 28 | The owner of a firearm is none the less owner because the law prohibits him from discharging it in a public highway ; the owner of a field does not cease to be owner because the public or a neighbour has the right to use a footpath across it . |
| 29 | ‘ A contract does not make a great deal of difference . |
| 30 | ‘ A ceremony in front of a vicar does n't make a marriage . |