Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Can a man be punished for breaking a law if he does not know that it exists ? ’ |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 34 | The issue of selecting an NSF candidate for the ( as yet unannounced ) presidential elections was not resolved when it emerged that any candidate would be required to endorse Roman 's programme . |
| 35 | Marie scrambled out of the sand-hills and ran along the bank , crashing her way through the tall , razor-edged grass , not minding if it cut her hands . |
| 36 | ’ 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 . |
| 37 | It does not matter if it communicates totally different ideas to other types of people . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | A technique such as smoothing will not do because it does not ordinarily produce a linear outcome . |
| 44 | As Robert Lovett , former Under Secretary of State , told the drafting committee , there was practically nothing that the US could not do if it wanted to . |
| 45 | 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 . ’ |
| 46 | 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 . ’ |
| 47 | I do not believe that it does . |
| 48 | I do not believe that it has to be a question of either/or . |
| 49 | He may not believe that it applies in his particular case . |
| 50 | Hungary 's allies do not mind that it criticises Romania , which is relocating Hungarian.speakers and razing their villages . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 53 | Mrs. Jones did not understand that it had that effect , notwithstanding that the creditor 's solicitor went through the mortgage with her and explained it to her before she signed . |
| 54 | Presumably he would have continued in the office for the whole of the pontificate , had he not died before it ended . |
| 55 | We 're not told and it does n't say on your ballot paper please be sure to remember you 're voting on what you think is right rather than what is in your personal interest , you were just asked to vote . |
| 56 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 57 | I can not see that it serves any useful purpose . |
| 58 | And went down into the kitchen , whose door she boldly opened , not caring that it had been shut to bar her out . |
| 59 | Similarly , the relativist stance does not work unless it makes an exception of itself which denies its own principle . |
| 60 | 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 . |