Example sentences of "not [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it would not or it could not observe the policy . |
| 2 | Well no not once it 's set up , it runs itself , does n't it ? |
| 3 | ‘ That Christmas ’ ( not that it matters ) was Christmas 1911 , which Pound spent as a guest of Maurice Hewlett 's at the Old Rectory , Broad Chalke , Salisbury — a house which had once been a nunnery , dating back to 1487 . |
| 4 | To most Anglicans now , though , the main thing about the papacy is not that it is evil — that seems an absurd accusation — but that it is frequently silly and wrong . |
| 5 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 6 | In go the Pyramids , Atlantis , the Holy Grail , the Knights Templar , the Freemasons , Napoleon , the Paris Metro map , Hitler , Ayers Rock and , unfortunately , much more besides ; out comes a dread secret to do with control of the ‘ telluric currents ’ which cause earthquakes or continental drift or something ; not that it much matters , since they made it all up . |
| 7 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 8 | Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place . |
| 9 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 10 | Not that it makes much difference . ’ |
| 11 | Not that it 's boring , just depressing . |
| 12 | Not that it mattered very much because he was living in my flat and was n't going to starve , but I said to him , there is only one way that you can make quick , ready money and that is going out in cabaret . |
| 13 | This points to the real worry about 1991 : not that it will not be good enough , but that it will be too good . |
| 14 | Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them . |
| 15 | Not that it 's that easy to shop for clothes , that 's why most disabled girls end up wearing what people have given them . |
| 16 | It is not that it has a design stamped on it , since once again it is not difficult to find other examples of metalwork decorated in a similar way . |
| 17 | The problem with the current rapid expansion of higher education was not that it was underfunded , but that it was taking place in the wrong subject areas , he said . |
| 18 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 19 | A piano tinkled in the long afternoon , all afternoons being long now ; an old lady , her eyes closed , hummed a relic of a long-forgotten act , not that it would be forgotten here . |
| 20 | Not that it was any old coin — a two-headed Churchill crown to be exact . |
| 21 | Not that it carries the equivalent of flab — merely that it needs extra strength because of its different combustion process operating under compression ratios twice that of petrol engines . |
| 22 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 23 | Not that it makes any difference . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Not that it makes any difference , ’ Trent had agreed . |
| 25 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 26 | Not that it would restrict our investigations ; but the murderer might not know that . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We happened to be at the mortuary … not that it will make any difference , but there is one thing we thought you would find interesting . ’ |
| 28 | Not that it could go on for ever . |
| 29 | The qualification ‘ at least in part ’ , is necessary because , as I have already noted , the evidence available on the role of interference at retrieval can show only that this process contributes to the effects observed , not that it is the sole source of these effects . |
| 30 | Not that it stopped her . |