Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [art] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , though she may not recognise the name it goes by from any catalogue of thou-shalt-nots , our Riva knows an abomination when she sees one . |
| 3 | I can not describe the solace it gave me . |
| 4 | To be sure , the USSR will not initiate a war it knows it will lose , but as the political stakes mount , so will the risks she is prepared to take . |
| 5 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 6 | The Butler Act provided for universal free state secondary education , but did not specify the form it should take or rule on whether or not there should be selective schools . |
| 7 | Because farmers , like people in other industries , thought it would never happen to them , the safety angle probably did not assume the importance it deserved . |
| 8 | The idea does not reap the success it deserves , however , since among other things Wulstan does not make allowance for the fact that even within the corpus of vocal music the performing medium was not uniform . |
| 9 | We should not underestimate the courage it must have taken for Clinton to give the go ahead to the Bosnian airlift . |
| 10 | Although the players may not welcome the switch it should prove an attractive proposition for spectators and one which will almost certainly lead to increased television coverage for the women 's game . |
| 11 | In cases where the route does not follow a geodesic it would be necessary to split the path into infinitesimal steps . |
| 12 | The close links between the Fabians and Milner 's kindergarten on the one hand , and the personal link in Chamberlain 's own career between radical reform and tariff imperialism — he wanted the Conservative Party to hypothecate the financial yield of the preferential tariff to providing old age pensions — are reminders that at the beginning of the century ‘ social imperialism ’ did not sound the paradox it does today , and that the forefathers of modern British Socialism are to be found in larger numbers in the ranks of the imperialists than of the Little Englanders . |
| 13 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , Leo 's pontificate did not realize the hopes it awoke . |
| 15 | The despair we felt at our inability to control our own destinies was not concerned solely with the rise of Fascism throughout Europe and the danger of it in or own country ; the Depression had proved that the ruling class could not control the system it had itself produced . |
| 16 | Although Hildyard and Olson do cite this literature in their article , they do not confront the arguments it raises but simply respond to them with ‘ alarm ’ . |
| 17 | Clearly , before the sound begins we can not measure the time it is going to take , but after it has sounded how can we measure it , since it is then no more ? |
| 18 | KKR said that if Hillsborough could not refinance the debt it took on when it launched a $2.4billion leveraged takeover in the building industry , it might have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy . |
| 19 | If the seller is allowed to qualify the warranties by a subjective test such as ‘ in the opinion of the seller ’ , the acquirer will not have the protection it would hope for . |
| 20 | Easy-to-run homes and a host of electrical aids mean that heavy housework does not take the toll it once did . |
| 21 | But the question is where will it do the greatest good … in Bosnia where it may not reach the people it 's meant for , or in Croatia where it probably will . |
| 22 | It was here that the Caroline reformers achieved nothing because the crown could not recapture the powers it had made over to local municipal oligarchs . |
| 23 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |
| 24 | With deference to the Divisional Court and without considering whether its decision could be supported on alternative grounds , his Lordship took the view that the Divisional Court 's judgment went too far and did not support the conclusion it reached . |
| 25 | Another important field that will not receive the attention it deserves in this book is the whole area of music . |
| 26 | Everyone assumes that students know how to make and use their notes , and yet time and time again a piece of work does not receive the grade it deserves because crucial material or ideas have been left out ; often this is information which the lecturer gave out in classes but which the student did not note down . |
| 27 | John Coffin was in his office crouched in the imitation Bauhaus chair which did not really accommodate his bulk and certainly did not offer the comfort it promised . |
| 28 | Whilst it can plausibly introduce a hybrid reform with de-centralising features , it can not dismantle the machine it has created without repudiating itself . |
| 29 | There are no circumstances , and no society , where envy does not find the material it needs to feed on . |
| 30 | But when you think if you go to your corner shop and you , you do n't want a lot it 's cheaper to go there than to get in a car |