Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric 's name was not given but it was not difficult to guess that it was him . |
| 2 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 3 | What I mean by this is the prevalence of the assumption that religion does not matter because it is not true — it is an illusion . |
| 4 | But the word can also be used to denote the idea that religion does not matter because it is not true . |
| 5 | Should this not be taken into account , and does it not appear that it is not taken into account in the voluntary code ? |
| 6 | He did not succeed but it was not for lack of trying . |
| 7 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 8 | Engineers already knew this , just as we know that the refrigerator will not work if it is not plugged in ; but Carnot 's achievement , when recognized after a quarter of a century , allowed theoretical understanding and in the end further advance in practice . |
| 9 | That an event is characterized in terms of the interdependent existence of subject and content does not entail that it is not physical according to such a conception of the physical . |
| 10 | The inquiry would show the American at the listening-post in the basement apartment did not move because it was not his job to move . |
| 11 | However , if the Transfer Regulations do not apply and it is not the transfer of a business as a going concern , the position is governed by the common law . |
| 12 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
| 13 | Simply because the egalitarian society has yet to become a reality does not mean that it is not possible . |
| 14 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
| 15 | We should not forget that it was not that long since Samuel Butler had published ( in 1878 ) his famous poem ‘ A Psalm Of Montreal ’ which was evoked by finding that Canadian ‘ philistinism ’ , had removed a Greek statue of Discobolus to a side-room in the Natural History Museum , presently used by a taxidermist , because of its ‘ vulgarity ’ . |
| 16 | It was a job of the utmost precision , and even a large-scale blow-up might not reveal that it was not genuine . |
| 17 | Nowhere else will be able to afford to do it , so let's not pretend that it 's not gon na affect those people outside . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes … but I can not pretend that it is n't a family disaster . |
| 19 | That 's not to say that it 's not worth listening to : it clearly is , and it grows larger the more you hear it . |
| 20 | The intervening years have not seen any revision , but this is not to say that it is not both necessary and desirable . |
| 21 | Unfortunately the practice ratings from Study 1 were not recorded so it is not possible to test this hypothesis . |
| 22 | ( In Franklin there was a crime , larceny ( nowadays theft ) , but that crime was not mentioned and it was not in itself dangerous . ) |
| 23 | Or if they do evaluate then it 's to say it 's not working but it 's not our fault , there could n't possibly be anything wrong with our thinking on this subject or this issue . |
| 24 | So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim . |
| 25 | I do n't laugh if it 's not funny . |
| 26 | And do n't think that it is n't a temptation . |
| 27 | Yeah but you do n't know whether it 's not er people phoning up to find out who 's there and whether he 's there and all to do with burglaries and things . |
| 28 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 29 | It does n't matter that it 's not real silk . ’ |
| 30 | Have a guess does n't matter if it 's not right . |