Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone . |
| 3 | Whilst I would apply that proposition completely in most cases , and particularly in cases which affect life , liberty or property , I do not think that it applies in all cases . |
| 4 | There was no tax invoice because the firm was not registered when it billed for the work . |
| 5 | Again , how — if at all — does a mosquito perceive its own high-pitched ping as it closes in on its prey , a sound not uttered as it dances with its fellows in gay abandon in a summer evening 's cloud . |
| 6 | This was one of the few liberties taken by the film 's editors , as no B–17 quite arrived that way on December 7 , but the shot was clearly too good not to include and it approximated to what had happened to a number of the actual B–17s which stumbled into the attack . |
| 7 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 8 | I read — I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office ; I suspect that it was the latter — that privatisation of the coal industry will drive a stake through the heart of Dracula , the leader of the NUM . |
| 9 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 10 | ’ It does not specify that it applies to all parties to the conflict , and is thus more ambiguous on this point than common Article 3 . |
| 11 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I do not believe that it has to be a question of either/or . |
| 14 | He may not believe that it applies in his particular case . |
| 15 | Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather . |
| 16 | The pathogenesis of this finding is not known but it appears to be unrelated to any effect of the diabetic state on platelet prostacyclin receptors as prostacyclin binding appears to be normal in diabetic platelets ( Shepherd et al , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | Restaurants : Dutch cuisine is rich and creamy and comes in large portions ; pork does not dominate as it does in West Germany . |
| 18 | I did not wonder that it failed to ‘ shake ’ Eliot . |
| 19 | But this does not mean that it has to be uninformed and makeshift . |
| 20 | While levels of poverty show no sign of falling , the fact that life is financially poor for many does not mean that it has to be solitary , as Mr. Hobbes has suggested . |
| 21 | Why do you not realise that it has to be stopped , and that you 're the ones to do it ! |
| 22 | I understand from the promoters that the project can not fail because it qualifies for tax reliefs under the business expansion scheme . |
| 23 | McDonald 's does not skimp when it comes to advertising , however . |
| 24 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 25 | It is to say that one person 's view is as good as another 's , which we patently do not accept when it comes to many aspects of our daily lives . |
| 26 | The Fourth Gospel , for example , does not lie when it puts into the mouth of Christ words , and whole patterns of speech , which we do not find on His lips in the first three gospels . |
| 27 | Fuck that , we were the only team not to choke when it came to the crunch , the same can not be said of the scum . |
| 28 | Er and we feel that that would be er unrealistic but within the modelling context , we do n't think that it needs to be separately taken into account . |
| 29 | like er according to the , the , the scripture , the son of destruction which , I do n't know whether it points towards Judas Iscariot of being one of the , the sons of destruction . |
| 30 | Well I 'd be happy to give you the name of the particular one but I do n't know whether it applies to the young . |