Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it [vb past] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 2 | The one good thing about the display is that it did not damage any of the glorious neo-Renaissance interiors , originally designed as a bank by A. Weihl in 1892–4 . |
| 3 | To judge from this book , the most surprising thing about the paper is that it did not collapse long ago . |
| 4 | Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of mortality during early industrialization , accelerating population growth , and the Napoleonic Wars is that it did not worsen . |
| 6 | the reason the world does n't know us is that it did not know him . |
| 7 | And the failure of IBM management is that it did n't understand — and still does n't understand — the extent of the mischief the genie of open systems it let out of the bottle with the original open IBM Personal Computer , could wreak . |
| 8 | The problem with the old board was that it did not innovate and did not concern itself with exporting English hops . |
| 9 | The only redeeming feature of a goalless , worthless event at Stamford Bridge was that it did not require a grant . |
| 10 | The main reason that he was carrying it rather than wearing it was that it did not belong to him . |
| 11 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 12 | A weakness of the last comprehensive review in Better management , better health was that it did not make explicit the value of development activities . |
| 13 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 14 | The strange thing was that it did not occur to her then to follow the Way Out signs , leave the station and go out into the street where a taxi could be found . |
| 15 | Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page . |
| 16 | Its excuse was that it did not have a computer programme that would fit the bill . |
| 17 | The major difference was that it did not operate in a context of contest . |
| 18 | With the national debate over the proposals to privatize the electricity industry gathering steam we knew how important it was that it did n't fade away . |
| 19 | The chief problem with thallium was that it did n't seem to be used for anything much apart from the manufacture of optical lenses of a high refractive index — camera lenses , for example . |
| 20 | Larry Cummins recalled , ‘ All I remember about Wilson 's ear was that it did n't amount to much , but a big deal was made out of it . |
| 21 | But the odd thing was that it did n't fill me with the slightest sense of humility or feelings about the separateness and ‘ otherness ’ of nature , but with sheer , shouting joy at sharing that old world on a new morning with my wild Scots kinfolk . |
| 22 | The only problem was that it did n't work out quite as we were expecting it to … |
| 23 | Labour had not won the argument over how to run a capitalist economy better than the Conservatives , so it could not take on its detractors — and that was because it had not thought through how it should be done . |
| 24 | But that was where the trouble was because it did n't toast properly . |