Example sentences of "not [verb] [subord] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It does not matter if it communicates totally different ideas to other types of people . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A technique such as smoothing will not do because it does not ordinarily produce a linear outcome . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather . |
| 13 | Similarly , the relativist stance does not work unless it makes an exception of itself which denies its own principle . |
| 14 | Just as in-service education does not work if it has not been tailored to match the stage or condition of the teacher who is to benefit from it , so the manager can not manage unless the method and style of management are acceptable and unless its purposes have been first unravelled and then knitted together after consultation between the manager and the manager 's colleagues . |
| 15 | It would not work because it assumes compliance by those who own the assets and resources , other than labour , of industry ; and that assumption ignores that there inheres in ownership an inalienable right to determine whether , and if so how , to use those assets and resources . |
| 16 | It does not work because it does not meet the problems of intervention . |
| 17 | A wide luff tube is not used as it hinders waterstarts when full of water . |
| 18 | The cannon ball does not stop where it hits the ground , but bounces straight forward and cuts a line through any targets in the way . |
| 19 | Production does not stop when it stops being an end in itself . |
| 20 | And though I can not return until it pleases the gods to end the world , I have never ceased to long for it . |
| 21 | Hopeful for what he will not miss when it fails |
| 22 | Such action ‘ simply does not wash if it means children exposed to wholly unsuitable material . |
| 23 | This means simply that there are actions that the executive will not take because it knows that the assembly will make a huge fuss . |
| 24 | A single electronic component such as a silicon diode or a transistor is not protected because it possesses no topography within the meaning of the regulations . |
| 25 | The measure of damages in subsection 3 , being prima facie , does not apply where it does not represent the seller 's loss . |
| 26 | The differential fee for night visits is intended to discourage general practitioners from using deputising services , but it is not known whether it has had this effect . |
| 27 | Restaurants : Dutch cuisine is rich and creamy and comes in large portions ; pork does not dominate as it does in West Germany . |
| 28 | It offers little , and concedes little , to merely natural feelings : even religious feelings it will not heighten till it has first sobered them ; but at its greatest it shines with a white light hardly surpassed outside the pages of the New Testament itself . |
| 29 | The earth does not spin on its axis for profit , the sun does not shine because it happens to have shares in a household firm . |
| 30 | This is the spirit of truth whom the world can not receive because it does not know him , does not behold him or know him , but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you . |