Example sentences of "it not " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that if you are born with genius , labour is unnecessary ; if you have it not , labour is in vain ; genius is all in all . |
| 2 | Why should it not , if there are grounds for thinking that it matters to the fiction ? |
| 3 | You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence . |
| 4 | It is quite possible that a number of other political changes would have got under way more recently were it not for the direct intervention of Pope John Paul II and the Vatican . |
| 5 | It not only frightens me , it repels me . |
| 6 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 7 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 8 | Is it not perhaps inevitable for all creatures with imagination , all creatures which can say no ? |
| 9 | But may it not be the case , he suggested , that images have already died and we are not aware of it ? |
| 10 | Let it not bear the traces of work , the traces of time . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , but , madam , if the fellow is a tout — tout , is that the word ? — for one of the hotels here , is it not likely he would need to be ascending like us ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It is correct , is it not , that your seigneur is vanished into the air . |
| 13 | A great detective might have considered this an astounding coincidence were it not for the fact that the hostelry was the only place in the whole of King 's Magnum Parva where a lady or a gentleman might obtain a meal . |
| 14 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
| 15 | Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ? |
| 16 | Would it not make a difference if one identified experience , not with some disposition to overt behaviour , but with the ‘ behaviour ’ of the brain as it ‘ discriminates ’ the various sorts of stimuli within the nervous system ? |
| 17 | And does it not have the ludicrous implication that a two-month-old only knows more than the two-week-old because he is more active ? |
| 18 | Its hard , shiny finish means it not only looks smart , but withstands knocks , bumps and scrapes . |
| 19 | Equally , why is it not pointed up that philanthropic murder and the Napoleonic idea and all other theorizing come unstuck here ? |
| 20 | People in literature departments are not used to handling ideas , it not being their métier , and traditionally they were not required to , beyond such elementary tokens as the Elizabethian World Picture or the Death of God . |
| 21 | After all , had it not led Eliot into seeming to endorse the anti-semitic French royalism of Charles Maurras ? |
| 22 | The poem itself he found ‘ a pompous parade of erudition ’ , and he decided that ‘ were it not for the Laforgue mechanism , Mr Eliot s poetic variations on the theme of a super-refined futility would be increasingly thin and incredibly second rate ’ ( The Freeman , 17 January 1923 ) . |
| 23 | Is it not the case that George Herbert and Christina Rossetti and even Lionel Johnson are devoutly Christian poets , whereas Pound is militantly non-Christian ? |
| 24 | And is it not a true bill , now as in 1918 ? |
| 25 | ( And why should it not be ? |
| 26 | Would it not be appropriate for this situation to be remedied by putting Charles Darwin on a new £100 note to emphasise to the world , in these uncertain times , our tradition of change by evolution and not revolution ? |
| 27 | Arguably , Macao would worry less about its future were it not constantly exposed to the nervousness of Hong Kong across the water . |
| 28 | Would it not continue to need the hard currency and expertise which a westernised Hong Kong attracted ? |
| 29 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |
| 30 | Taking one of William Rees-Mogg 's conclusions further , is it not logical to deduce that while ‘ Italy is the cradle of European civilisation ’ , Tuscany is right at the centre of it . |