Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although intensive visual concentration can sometimes lead to fatigue it must be stressed that it does not damage vision . |
| 2 | At the same time , while accepting that tension between richer and poorer peasants was growing and that Stolypin 's reform created fierce friction between those who separated from the commune and those who remained within it , revisionists have stressed that it did not shake their common determination that noble land should be transferred into their hands . |
| 3 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 4 | Such headlines both raise the issue of order in school and at the ground , and explicitly propose that it does not exist . |
| 5 | The Israeli government maintained that it had not encouraged Soviet Jews to settle in the occupied territories . |
| 6 | Emphasize that it does not matter how badly one reads the paragraph as long as the situation is not avoided . |
| 7 | They say that it does not deal with the problem of people who persistently reoffend while on bail . |
| 8 | It is acknowledged , however , that in its efforts to support the capitalist system , politically and economically , the capitalist state creates and expands public and social services only to find that it does not have the required resources to meet the growing cost of the public sector . |
| 9 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 10 | Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ? |
| 11 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 12 | Between disquisitions on Chinese opera and Venetian architecture , the story of Marco Polo 's voyage from Venice to Peking is more or less retold , though the narrative is continually being brought to a halt in moments when it half-realises that it does not mean enough . |
| 13 | He had protested that it did not have the money and had been told that ‘ the Minister would not wear a statement that funds were exhausted ’ . |
| 14 | If an earn out is to be used , it is recommended that it does not form too significant a part of the purchase price as this will distort priorities . |
| 15 | The J/44 , and some other J-boats , seem to indicate that it does not . |
| 16 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 17 | Lovley reported that it has not been determined how the bacteria break down the chemicals , but he speculated that they are converted into carbon dioxide and chloride or fluoride salts . |
| 18 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 19 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 20 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 21 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 22 | concerned this rule still stands and it has not expired . |
| 23 | O. imprudens is included because it has not been figured satisfactorily and as bathyal species its distribution may extend to 1000 m . |
| 24 | One wonders whether it does not say more about the worker than about the client . |
| 25 | This is tougher than it first looks as it does not cover news , sport , game-shows or teletext services . |
| 26 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has realised that it does not need a change in the German constitution to privatise its cellular telephone business , and has decided that as it is in keen need of cash for investment , it will go ahead and do it ahead of its own privatisation . |
| 27 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 28 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 29 | So they choose to contend that it has not really happened : and in so choosing raise a timely question about the nature of political belief . |
| 30 | This is a great pity ; the battle between these two paradigms , that of Galton and that of Binet , is a very real one , and to pretend that it does not exist , and that there is no evidence against the paradigm adopted here , is disingenuous . |