Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think at the moment the it 's the Scottish theory , not proven but it looks promising . |
| 2 | It must be right for auditors to audit and for regulators to regulate and I do not think that it helps the argument for there to be an overlap in responsibilities and in some way , as I say , to turn auditors into snoopers and narks er er and make more supine one 's er regulators . |
| 3 | And I do not think that it means , as counsel argued , the individuals who inhabit these islands . |
| 4 | Whilst I would apply that proposition completely in most cases , and particularly in cases which affect life , liberty or property , I do not think that it applies in all cases . |
| 5 | I do not think that it matters greatly whether this kind of contract is called a sale or not . |
| 6 | I well understand why Opposition Members are looking rather depressed today , but I do not think that it has anything to do with catering facilities in the House . |
| 7 | But not to see that it exists shows a surprising ( and therefore interesting ) blindness . |
| 8 | Again , how — if at all — does a mosquito perceive its own high-pitched ping as it closes in on its prey , a sound not uttered as it dances with its fellows in gay abandon in a summer evening 's cloud . |
| 9 | Although the long tendon attaching to digit 3 will develop initially , even though it does not attach to a muscle , it will not persist unless it does attach . |
| 10 | Those who subscribe to this view would disagree with the proposal of the FRED that where a warrant lapses unexercised the amount previously recognised should be reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , since they do not consider that it represents a gain to the company . |
| 11 | I do not consider that it has been shown that she exercised her discretion inappropriately or wrongly . |
| 12 | I have already expressed the view that the scarcity of references in the books to the prerogative of keeping the peace within the realm does not disprove that it exists . |
| 13 | It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity . |
| 14 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 15 | Some of us though , working at the ground , grass roots ma may not know that it goes on , and er , I would just like to take this opportunity of stressing how important it is to , that we communicate within the United Kingdom , and er , support Nigel 's er , suggestion that it would be useful to have a base down here . |
| 16 | ‘ Can a man be punished for breaking a law if he does not know that it exists ? ’ |
| 17 | Such a sentence as ‘ He feels sad ’ would be unintelligible without assimilation to my own feelings ; and although ‘ He is sad ’ is interpretable as a dispositional statement about behaviour , in the manner worked out in Ryle 's Concept of mind , someone who did not know that it entails ‘ He feels sad ’ could not be said fully to understand it . |
| 18 | ’ It does not specify that it applies to all parties to the conflict , and is thus more ambiguous on this point than common Article 3 . |
| 19 | It does not matter if it communicates totally different ideas to other types of people . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 22 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 23 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 24 | A technique such as smoothing will not do because it does not ordinarily produce a linear outcome . |
| 25 | That the argument will not do as it stands is , in fact , conceded in the Three Dialogues , where Berkeley allows Hylas to make the point that , although the existence of a sensible thing might consist in its being perceivable ( as in the premiss ) , it does not ( a fixed upon matter … may … forget that there be such things in the world as Spirits … and at last that there is a God , and that their souls are immortal . ’ |
| 26 | In a lecture he delivered on the fringe of last year 's Conservative Party conference , Mr Lawson said : ‘ While economic failure will most certainly drive a government out of office , economic success alone will not ensure that it retains office . ’ |
| 27 | I do not believe that it does . |
| 28 | I do not believe that it has to be a question of either/or . |
| 29 | He may not believe that it applies in his particular case . |
| 30 | Hungary 's allies do not mind that it criticises Romania , which is relocating Hungarian.speakers and razing their villages . |