Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 2 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 3 | She could not tell whether it had been a matter of minutes or several hours . |
| 4 | As Robert Lovett , former Under Secretary of State , told the drafting committee , there was practically nothing that the US could not do if it wanted to . |
| 5 | The Department of Health said it would not comment until it received details of the proposals . |
| 6 | Now , he had just appointed a new Cabinet and he insisted that the would not leave until it had been formally approved by the Majles , or parliament , as the constitution demanded . |
| 7 | In the end each successive British government was obliged to trust the Americans , and to hope that circumstances would not arise when it disagreed with American policy . |
| 8 | It would not work because it assumes compliance by those who own the assets and resources , other than labour , of industry ; and that assumption ignores that there inheres in ownership an inalienable right to determine whether , and if so how , to use those assets and resources . |
| 9 | Although the long tendon attaching to digit 3 will develop initially , even though it does not attach to a muscle , it will not persist unless it does attach . |
| 10 | Hopeful for what he will not miss when it fails |
| 11 | That the argument will not do as it stands is , in fact , conceded in the Three Dialogues , where Berkeley allows Hylas to make the point that , although the existence of a sensible thing might consist in its being perceivable ( as in the premiss ) , it does not ( a fixed upon matter … may … forget that there be such things in the world as Spirits … and at last that there is a God , and that their souls are immortal . ’ |
| 12 | A technique such as smoothing will not do because it does not ordinarily produce a linear outcome . |
| 13 | It offers little , and concedes little , to merely natural feelings : even religious feelings it will not heighten till it has first sobered them ; but at its greatest it shines with a white light hardly surpassed outside the pages of the New Testament itself . |
| 14 | Lilly will not say whether it found a conflict in the evidence for accumulation it presented to CSM on 7 October 1981 . |
| 15 | This means simply that there are actions that the executive will not take because it knows that the assembly will make a huge fuss . |
| 16 | And though I can not return until it pleases the gods to end the world , I have never ceased to long for it . |
| 17 | I understand from the promoters that the project can not fail because it qualifies for tax reliefs under the business expansion scheme . |
| 18 | This is the spirit of truth whom the world can not receive because it does not know him , does not behold him or know him , but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you . |
| 19 | It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity . |
| 20 | I can not remember whether it soared off into space from time to time , though I guess it must have . |