Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [vb past] not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He seemed surprised as if it had not occurred to him that literature might let him down in this way .
2 The House of Lords held that when determining the nature of the source of the income arising to the trust one looked through the trust treating the trust for all practical purposes as if it did not exist .
3 My ears were burning , and my left shin throbbed as if it did not know I had stopped walking .
4 It is , however , almost as if it did not have one .
5 Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class .
6 On the other hand he referred to the claim of the appellants that the volume of documentation was very large and that if in all such cases a similar order was made there would be ‘ intolerable disruption ’ to an auditors ' business , the risk to the appellants that in producing the documents they might provide material to ground claims against themselves , and the suggestion that the order was not sufficiently specific in that it did not indicate to the appellants the areas in which the respondents considered that the appellants or others might be liable .
7 Publicly , Israeli officials criticized the resolution , but privately many declared it to be " tolerable " in that it did not recommend any concrete UN steps against Israel .
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