Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] it [be] [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 | I do not think that it was entirely the question of the ownership of Nigerian oil ; more likely they genuinely believed that the Biafrans had no chance of success . |
| 4 | All I can now remember of questions and answers is writing a three-hour essay on ‘ Security ’ , and I can not think that it was very good . |
| 5 | Do not think , he wrote , biting his lips in concentration , bending low over the page , blinking to keep the sweat out of his eyes , do not think that it was ever far from my mind . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Eric 's name was not given but it was not difficult to guess that it was him . |
| 8 | I had not realised that it was even more complicated than I had been led to believe originally . |
| 9 | The CAP can not survive because it is totally unrelated to the realities of a free market . |
| 10 | ( b ) Provided the the kind of damage is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that it is more extensive than could have been foreseen . |
| 11 | It did not matter that it was only the fourth time they had met ; she knew this moment was exceptional in her life and that , while their physical passion might be impulsive and unplanned , it was inescapable . |
| 12 | As there were always numerous staff and porters available , it did not matter that it was extremely heavy to carry even when empty . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the word can also be used to denote the idea that religion does not matter because it is not true . |
| 16 | Should this not be taken into account , and does it not appear that it is not taken into account in the voluntary code ? |
| 17 | He did not succeed but it was not for lack of trying . |
| 18 | It was important that this strategy did not succeed and it was also important that the tactics of intimidation seen in 1979 did not win through in 1982 . |
| 19 | I did not speak to Harold Wilson or to Lady Falkender about the matter , since I was sure that strenuous efforts would be made to prevent disclosure , but I was equally sure from Denis Hamilton 's attitude that this would not succeed and it was therefore better not to try . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With respect to my hon. Friend , I do not believe that it is ever possible to cut a hard-and-fast line . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | That is an essential part of the education process , and I do not believe that it was greatly exacerbated by the introduction of reforms . |
| 27 | Sri Lankans did not believe that it was morally wrong to convict a known cattle thief on false evidence , and officials often complained that true cases were spoilt by complainants who added additional false evidence . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |