Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given my hon. Friend 's well-known commitment to productivity , efficiency and careful spending of money in the public sector , I am surprised by her suggestion and I do not think that it is tremendously sensible . |
| 2 | of my households are single-person households — I do not think that it is quite that high — I shall make absolutely certain that every one knows the Labour party 's policy for them . |
| 3 | It is expensive to buy food that children do not eat and it is very easy for the mother to fall into the trap of offering the child only what she thinks the child still likes . |
| 4 | The CAP can not survive because it is totally unrelated to the realities of a free market . |
| 5 | ( b ) Provided the the kind of damage is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that it is more extensive than could have been foreseen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the word can also be used to denote the idea that religion does not matter because it is not true . |
| 9 | Should this not be taken into account , and does it not appear that it is not taken into account in the voluntary code ? |
| 10 | To fall , in , towards the nucleus it would have to lose all its energy , and this it can not do as it is continually absorbing energy from the ether which balances with the amount it naturally radiates . |
| 11 | While acquisitions , disposals and foreign subsidiaries all feature , I do not believe that it is particularly difficult — if you have a basic understanding and are willing to think in broad financial accounting terms . |
| 12 | I do not believe that it is entirely their fault , because they almost certainly have producers and controllers who tell them what they may or may not discuss . |
| 13 | Of course there is drug abuse in athletics , but I do not believe that it is as widespread as the press and some of the anti-campaigners make out . |
| 14 | With respect to my hon. Friend , I do not believe that it is ever possible to cut a hard-and-fast line . |
| 15 | Is my hon. Friend aware that I have lived for a number of years without any such advice , and I can not believe that it is really necessary ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As for another Childwall resident stating she can not sleep as it is so bright , we have the opposite trouble . |
| 19 | But in any case I 'm not complaining if it 's back to the days of sitting downstairs with a brandy and soda while midwives rush about boiling water and collecting towels . |
| 20 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
| 21 | Their emotional development was not understood as it is today . |
| 22 | I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That can not happen until it is also ratified by three newly-independent , former Soviet republics which have long-range nuclear weapons stationed on their soil . |
| 25 | Despite these traditions , analysis of student results does not indicate that it is more difficult to gain a first in arts than it is in science subjects . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Simply because the egalitarian society has yet to become a reality does not mean that it is not possible . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management . |
| 30 | To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised . |