Example sentences of "does not [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mere listing of impressionistic and selective evidence of anti-business attitudes does not advance understanding very far [ Weiner , 1981 ] . |
| 2 | The polarity of LED connections is important , if one does not light reverse the two connecting wires . |
| 3 | Of all the arguments the Chancellor deploys , the most powerful is the contention that the deficit does not matter because it does not represent borrowing by the public sector — in effect the deficit is all in the private sector . |
| 4 | He does not bother to turn on the bedside lamp . |
| 5 | When a glass cutter wants to cut glass , he does not bother to cut right through but makes a shallow scratch on the surface after which the glass breaks easily along the line of the scratch . |
| 6 | Paul does not bother to correct him . |
| 7 | Rule utilitarianism is often advocated , on grounds of fairness , as necessary to counter the excuses of the ‘ free rider ’ who does not bother to stick to a moral rule because enough others are doing so to produce its benefits . |
| 8 | This approach does not necessitate measuring the ‘ maturity ’ of the heated sample , and therefore this source of error is eliminated from the constructed cumulative yield . |
| 9 | The point of this stage is that it is cheap and easy , and does not necessitate going outside the building . |
| 10 | This technique can be employed with normal subjects , as well as with commissurotomised patients , although the presence of intact mid-line commissures in normals means that visual information presumably does not remain lateralised to one hemisphere as it does in split-brain patients . |
| 11 | The girl is cured even though Jesus does not go to see her . |
| 12 | While Edmund , who does not care to live in England ‘ from old vexatious associations ’ likes none the less ‘ to have some foothold there ’ . |
| 13 | Love is disarmed that meets with too much ease ; He languishes and does not care to please . |
| 14 | The first perspective , Theory X , assumes that ( a ) the average person is lazy and does not care to work ; ( b ) most people must be coerced , directed and controlled if the organisation is to benefit by employing them ; ( c ) the average person lacks ambition and has no interest in taking on responsibility . |
| 15 | Unlike Woodchester , however , such geometric decoration as exists does not serve to emphasize the autonomy of the circular arrangement . |
| 16 | When ‘ I 'm getting into a muddle ’ is a soliloquy , ‘ I ’ certainly does not serve to direct Descartes 's attention to Descartes , or to show that it is Descartes , none other , who is getting into a muddle . |
| 17 | Thus , the official receiver will only become the trustee of the bankrupt if no nominations for the appointment of a trustee are put forward and the official receiver does not decide to ask the Secretary of State ( under s 296 ) to appoint another person as trustee . |
| 18 | And we are moving into an age , I think it must be recognised , where some of the traditional jobs for girls , for example , secretaries , shops , things of this sort , are actually being decreased because of the technological revolution , so bearing in mind that something like seventy per cent of women are actually in employment , it 's very important that a girl , at the age of thirteen or fourteen , does not decide to cut herself off from the possibility of employment in these technological , engineering fields . |
| 19 | The layer containing the fingers does not continue to thicken until it fills the fluid region . |
| 20 | Without order , the system does not continue to exist , but spend too much and accumulation breaks down . |
| 21 | If the number of managerial jobs does not continue expanding , more and more men may become trapped in the way that female clerks already are . |
| 22 | The objective of the Government , as we have said before , is not to penalise property held on discretionary trust — or other settled property — but simply to ensure that property held in this form does not continue to have the capital tax advantages it has in practice enjoyed with estate duty by comparison with property beneficially owned by individuals . |
| 23 | But it works , and it will be a shame if Martin does not continue to find time for pictures like this . |
| 24 | ‘ You have been very clever — in fact , too clever ’ and the goodie saying , ‘ Kill me , but let the girl go ’ must be taken as read , but Casaubon does not fail to intone after the not tremendously exciting climax , ‘ Maybe I imagined the whole thing . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Sandy is a knight who does not fail to rise to the occasion , ’ Mariot observed . |
| 26 | If a material like glass does not fail owing to the spread of a crack from some local defect then how does it fail ? |
| 27 | This means that the user does not hag to specify that a legend is required , nor is it necessary to give any detailed instructions on the placement of the legend . |
| 28 | LEFT Here a dog is wary of a stranger , but does not move to attack . |
| 29 | The implication of this is that context does not function to exclude candidates from the cohort . |
| 30 | The lawyer may have been notified , but the Act does not prohibit questioning before arrival . |