Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wellington could not make up its mind , so nominated both . |
| 2 | He could not make out its face but saw it was looking through the book he had just found with the complicated title . |
| 3 | This was clearly shown in Case 28/84 Commission v. Germany , where the animal foodstuffs directives , which , as mentioned in the previous paragraph , had been held not to preclude health inspections under national law , were found to create a comprehensive system with regard to the composition and preparation of animal foodstuffs , so that Germany could not lay down its own rules on minimum and maximum levels of certain ingredients . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Evidently Jordan could not trust even its old clients , unless they were bound to the East Bank by powerful economic considerations . |
| 6 | The weather was bad in Berlin , the kind of winter that could n't make up its mind , a thin snow changing to sleet and driving rain . |
| 7 | He promised that the resistance would not lay down its arms until the last Soviet soldier had left Afghanistan and that if a deal was made over their heads the guerrillas would continue fighting even if foreign help were withdrawn . |
| 8 | And even then her flesh would not give up its alien growth without a struggle . |
| 9 | Where 's the fun in being a sponsor if the audience ca n't fall off its chairs occasionally ? |
| 10 | The commission is stopping it because the British Government will not make up its mind on whether it 's gon na back the money . |
| 11 | But he then added : ‘ I hope the Government will not delay further its clear commitment to join the full EMS . |
| 12 | Sch 19AB , TA 1988 , inserted by s 49 of the 1991 Finance Act , allows insurance companies to provisionally reclaim income tax and tax credits deducted from pension business income , in recognition of the fact that an insurance company will not know precisely its level of pension business until after its accounting period has ended . |
| 13 | It 's the idea that you ca n't have socialism in one country , it has to be international it 's the idea that it has to be based on the working class because the working class is the agent of socialism and it has to be by revolution because the ruling class wo n't give up its power and wealth voluntarily . |
| 14 | This word can convey several meanings but one of them expresses an inner state of mind so torn between various options that it can not make up its mind . |
| 15 | In short , linguistics may provide literary theory with the broad outlines of a model , but it can not determine either its detail or the manner in which it is applied to literature . |
| 16 | They want to see financial pressure applied , to ensure South Africa can not roll over its debt or raise new capital . |