Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlord 's argument will be that the rent should be paid on time , but the tenant could respond that it is a fairly recent innovation for rent to be paid in advance as opposed to in arrears and , furthermore , that the landlord has the benefit of three months ' rent in advance , despite the fact that it may not arrive on the actual quarter day . |
| 2 | And this , as once again Wollheim argues , though it may not lead to action like that in the representation , acts as a lure to the formation of fresh dispositions to act — of fresh desires . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , TNCs do introduce much useable technology into the Third World , and while it may not lead to the conquest of global markets it may still have a very positive effect on industry and employment in particular countries . |
| 4 | Beware of the trap of spending time on long explanations in English on what something is. it may not exist in the other culture . |
| 5 | Be sure to overlap the tape on itself as it may not adhere to the foam |
| 6 | It may not appear to be strictly in keeping with the true spirit of love , but there is a great deal of useful ‘ good ’ to be learned from a military background . |
| 7 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 8 | It may not go with a tableful of curry , but a mug of cold beer is not what I need . |
| 9 | It should be emphasized that this division into four classes is man-made ; it is convenient for the construction of partial theories , but it may not correspond to anything deeper . |
| 10 | The no-tax situation is not a first-best benchmark , since it may not correspond to a desired intertemporal distribution — and this may provide grounds for government intervention . |
| 11 | It may not sound like much but it means we can buy substantially fewer new books than in previous years |
| 12 | It may not sound like much to get excited about but for enthusiasts even the merest chance of a sighting is somehting worth turning out for . |
| 13 | It would not be consistent with the obligation for a national court to be subject to a precondition such as a requirement that it may not look behind the text of a national implementing measure unless it is first found to be ambiguous . |
| 14 | Even though it may not qualify for listing , the building may have interesting features — architectural details , original doors or internal fittings . |
| 15 | Now , clearly , in many circumstances where the property of an adjective matches a speaker 's perception , it may not need to be assigned — i.e. stated explicitly to be valid for the entity concerned — on the grounds that it is felt to be a characteristic sufficiently basic to the entity not to need assignment , as opposed to being called upon as an initial qualifying and identifying element . |
| 16 | It may not happen before the World Cup in ‘ 95 . |
| 17 | While it may not fall within the same category as Dances with Wolves as an illustration of a time and people grossly misrepresented , it is a period piece of some strength and charm which just falls short of the epithet epic . |
| 18 | ‘ It may not come to that . ’ |
| 19 | It may not come to it . |
| 20 | It may not come at all if Labour wins . |
| 21 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 22 | It may not apply to anything but I know in the past when she 's given me those things to try erm she 's got a book at home and it 'll say erm particular |
| 23 | Explaining the proposals , MCC secretary Col John Stephenson said : ‘ We have had to cater for all cricket , so it may not seem to be as tough as some people have been demanding . |
| 24 | Ironically , at the start of a relationship it may not seem relevant to use anything as nothing may happen , so it may not seem worth all that trouble to get the Pill . |
| 25 | It seems a grand truth now , though in the morning it may not seem worth disturbing her for . |
| 26 | Yeah but as far as I can see there either is a surplus or there is n't , you know , that it should n't depend on where you organize the a aggregate . |
| 27 | It should n't go to their heads . |
| 28 | Yet while he did n't much care about the outcome of Plainsong , except in a generally patriotic sense , he cared very much that it should n't fail in any way that would leave a vindictive Foreign Office with a load of blame to distribute . |
| 29 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 30 | I 'm sure the council do a lot of good work and it should n't fall to me to propagate the views of the monopolistic , right-wing press . |