Example sentences of "does not [vb infin] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We know we 've done nothing wrong and it does not bother us in the least what the referees ’ report says . ’ |
| 2 | So being a Christian then does not isolate us from sorrow or from grief . |
| 3 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 4 | The ‘ Thatcher governments ’ of 1979 onwards argued that ‘ the world does not owe us a living ’ . |
| 5 | Although not confronted regularly by Aids we can no longer pretend that it does not affect us . ’ |
| 6 | Most who drive cars would agree that does not make us expert mechanics . |
| 7 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 8 | It is not right to share feelings in a sentence such as ‘ You make me feel … ’ because in actuality the other person does not make us feel this way . |
| 9 | In dieting , failure does not make us try harder . |
| 10 | But such theorising , however ‘ moral ’ , does not make us moral theorists . |
| 11 | Let me say , straight away , it does not make us invincible . |
| 12 | We can go through Sunday school and bible school , we can sit in church year after year , after year and take it all in and learn great reams of the bible by heart , and be able to explain this and that , that does not make us , a Christian ! |
| 13 | And by , becoming religious and observing religious , er , practices does not make us a better person . |
| 14 | I agree with Mr. Sedley , for Messrs. Doody and Pierson , that the decision of this court in Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 does not bind us to conclude that the Secretary of State is not obliged to give reasons in this respect . |
| 15 | At present what we need to note is the recognition of the validity of a description in its own terms does not commit us to acknowledge its pedagogic relevance in principle . |
| 16 | Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ? |
| 17 | It conjectures that God/dess , the Source , the Universe , the Force , the Light — or whatever term you wish to use — just might prefer us to enjoy life to the full , to open ourselves to the joy and abundance of the universe ; that All That Is is perhaps a loving force , and does not want us to endure sorrow , poverty and hardship . |
| 18 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 19 | It does not enable us to say anything directly about the nature of consciousness . |
| 20 | This definition , however , does not enable us to say which functions are public functions , but only to give a reason why certain functions are classified as public . |
| 21 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 22 | However , this is insufficient because by itself it does not enable us to understand the diverse experience of women of different ethnicities . |
| 23 | It does not enable us to identify the faulty premise . |
| 24 | All three IBOA Resolutions on the Order Paper were adopted unanimously and as space does not enable us to reproduce the full statements made to Congress a precis is given here-under . |
| 25 | The model does not enable us to examine the effects of changes in aggregate demand on both output and prices . |
| 26 | ‘ If the situation does not ease we would take advice nearer to the date from the Foreign Office about the tour , but at the moment we are not in the business of calling it off unilaterally . ’ |
| 27 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 28 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 29 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
| 30 | The story does not tell us what the Israelites had to eat in Egypt , but it gives our imaginations enough information to work on . |