Example sentences of "it [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decline in the position of history in many of our schools is signified by the fact that it failed not only to be ranked as a core subject in the National Curriculum reinstated under the Education Reform Act of 1988 but was struggling hard for its survival on the list of foundation subjects as schools in the early 1990s tried to pour the National Curriculum quart into the school timetable pint pot . |
| 2 | It doth n't . |
| 3 | … As to the matter of there being no appeal from an arbitrary sentence ; it is true , the case is the harder , because the party is concluded by one judgment , but it doth not lessen the validity of the sentence , nor doth it in any way prove that you shall find out some way to examine this matter at law in a judicial proceeding . |
| 4 | It refers not simply to the sound of a poem 's words , but has wider reverberations relating to Eliot 's own explorations in anthropology , and to the sort of combination of primitive ritual and civilized world explored in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes : |
| 5 | The title Kirkby Hill Races is something of a misnomer , as it refers not to a race but to an election . |
| 6 | It refers not to power but to authority , and what I think he means is that although a woman can make good and wise judgements , she can not be the arbiter of that goodness or wisdom . |
| 7 | It refers not only to a present which is constantly breaking down to form reveal the fragments of the past , but a view of our surroundings which may seem whole and contiguous , but which in fact is forever splintering and reshaping itself as our minds piece together the fragments that our eyes actually perceive . |
| 8 | It refers not to truncating the inquiry but to the timescale before appointing an inspector and publishing the report . |
| 9 | It follows that there is a close , but quite unexplored , relation between discourse deixis and mention or quotation ; thus in the following example ( from Lyons , 1977a : 667 ) : ( 91 ) A : That 's a rhinoceros B : Spell it for me it refers not to the referent , the beast itself , but to the word rhinoceros . |
| 10 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 11 | Indeed , one of these sixty watercolours is called " Sunset scene driving home " and it records not only the colours and forms of the countryside but the movement of the car . |
| 12 | It goes not only to C&P employees and pensioners but to MPs , opinion formers , educational establishments and representatives from the chemical industry . |
| 13 | What i what is really extraordinary I think is the way as you say that in nineteen fifty fifty one , fifty one fifty two , they actually , actually changed the tax schedules so it goes not from the three percent of the bottom , from six or seven percent of the bottom and only up to twenty five percent . |
| 14 | ‘ Yer never know what would 'ave 'appened if it 'ad n't rained . ’ |
| 15 | In some ways this boom is even more extraordinary , because it represents not only a new taste but a subtly different attitude towards works of art . |
| 16 | Perhaps it represents not a past concrete social reality as it actually existed , but rather the ideas men who lived then had about their responsibilities and claims , their liabilities and privileges and freedom . |
| 17 | As the legal regime for the National Curriculum comes into effect , it becomes increasingly apparent that it represents not so much a ‘ straitjacket ’ but a ‘ corset ’ — holding things in place , while restricting , but not totally , freedom of movement ! |
| 18 | The weakness of the Marquandite ‘ new vision ’ for a party of the left is that it neglects not only some of the values that underpin Labour 's ‘ old vision ’ , but the constituency whose votes can be rallied in support of them . |
| 19 | It involves not only a judgment about the way things are but also the way things ought to be . |
| 20 | And this one is a very interesting project because it 's being done under the director of , direction of Dr. Michael Eraut in the University , but it involves not merely the University but the East Sussex County Council . |
| 21 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 22 | The back scooped down to 4 inches below my waist , but the weight of the beads stretched the base fabric and on the dress rehearsal , much to my embarrassment , the backless gown inched its way over my buttocks until it became not only backless but bottomless . |
| 23 | With the DES having to settle for this , and with the Diploma being seen in higher education as merely equivalent to the first two years of a degree programme , it became not an alternative track in higher education , but an ambiguous poor relation to the degree . |
| 24 | So it became not only erm practical thing but the light fitting became a decorative |
| 25 | And in the end it offers not one way , as the ideologue or the mystic would claim , but rather an acceptance that diversity is forever a fact of life . |
| 26 | It offers not a concrete image of history but an abstract schema of men making history of such a kind that it can manifest itself in the trend of their lives as a synchronic totality . |
| 27 | This charge would be acceptable as long as it constitutes not more than , say 10% of the passenger fare . |
| 28 | This charge would be acceptable as long as it constitutes not more than , say 10% of the passenger fare . |
| 29 | In the high growth area of optical fibres it produced not only a new coating to protect the delicate fibres themselves but the technology for continuous [ and cheap ] ultra-violet curing during the production process . |
| 30 | The Rowley Mile was certainly no place for a scantily-clad 56-year-old , but needless to say in Piggott 's extraordinary case it made not the slightest difference . |