Example sentences of "it not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus he seems to be arguing from within a position which holds that aggression is an innate attribute of sufficient strength that it needs to be redirected in some way for it not to manifest itself in interhuman relations . |
| 2 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
| 3 | The University is budgeting for a deficit in 1992–3 leading to an accumulated deficit at the end of the year of £3.7m , having decided that the general financial outlook was sufficiently encouraging for it not to delay allocating funds towards the backlog of long-term maintenance ( see para. 3.8 above ) ; it believes that there will be a small but steady growth in student numbers , and that changes in the HEFCE 's method of distributing funds for research will benefit it . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't tell it not to do what a nome tells it to do . |
| 5 | ‘ I would have trained it not to do so , ’ said Lydia . |
| 6 | Thus the effective and efficient use of money as a credit standard requires it not to lose its value due to inflation . |
| 7 | Sometimes he talked to it , and asked it not to kill him . |
| 8 | Cold with fear , she had waited for take-off , willing it not to happen , knowing it would . |
| 9 | I 'm so frightened the feeling will go away , it 's too fragile , and I do so want it not to break . |
| 10 | Following further approaches from my hon. Friend , a direction was issued to South Glamorgan county council on 11 December requiring it not to approve the proposal until the Secretary of State had had more time to consider whether to call in the matter for his own determination . |
| 11 | It was now 6.22am , and their ETA at Koepang was 7.15am , so Wood decided that altering course any further was not worthwhile , as they were near enough to Timor for it not to make much difference . |
| 12 | Taylor was not only himself firm with Dissenters , but in a sermon which he preached before the Irish Parliament in 1661 he urged it not to have too much respect for tender consciences . |
| 13 | We have , as the novel suggests , been immersed for too long in a predominantly oral culture for it not to have permanently altered our minds . |
| 14 | Optimism must always be tinged with anxiety for it not to become braggartism , and there were enough instances in the past , mainly at Olympic Games where British flames of hope had turned to ashes of despair , for a note of caution to be sounded . |
| 15 | This column , however , would be less than human were it not to exult in the humiliation of the pollsters in last week 's election . |
| 16 | Far better , of course , for it not to come to that . |
| 17 | Now , if the Liaison Office had got the same number from Maxim , then the embassy gossip vine had to be more security-minded than she believed possible for it not to come to one conclusion . |