Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plenty of ‘ success stories ’ where governments have not intervened , or where it has not even been acknowledged that farmers and pastoralists have quietly got on with the business of conservation for themselves , and frequently provided sustainable surpluses for the market as well . |
| 2 | A blank suggests either that the shoe is suitable but not necessarily recommended for the purpose , or that it does not have a feature . |
| 3 | the stating of the price without making it clear , if it is the case , that it applies only to cash customers or that it does not apply to part-exchange deals or applies only in certain circumstances or does not apply in certain other circumstances ; |
| 4 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |
| 5 | A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not . |
| 6 | Penelope 's way home took her along St Basil 's Terrace , or if it had not done she would have arranged her journey to include it , even if it had meant a slight detour . |
| 7 | You should not anticipate reliable floppy disk reading if the disk is not of the correct type , or if it has not been formatted using the correct procedure for that particular disk drive . |
| 8 | Everything large or furry has been shot and eaten or skinned , or if it has n't been , it runs away while you 're still a long way off , which makes it rather difficult to film . |
| 9 | Now the especially if it is colourless or if it has n't got a smell , you think ooh I 'm not putting that down . |
| 10 | Fundholding poses ethical problems , either because it secures a better service for the patients of a fundholding practice over those whose doctors happen not to hold a fund , or because it does not . |
| 11 | To someone without this discriminative capacity , either congenitally or because it has not been developed , a thing can present a blue appearance , but he can not see it as blue . |
| 12 | But the question then arises as to whether all this interactive effort serves only to facilitate the internalization of linguistic knowledge , as Long appears to imply , or whether it does not also develop the executive ability referred to earlier , whereby the learner can access that knowledge in a range of communicative contexts . |
| 13 | I do n't know whether it 's deafness or whether it does n't register that 's what I mean , you see . |
| 14 | Now , I do n't know whether that 's because i in your house there is n't a husband or a partner , or whether it did n't occur to you to say we , whether you always think of it as I or whether he 's out winning bread or you know , wha whatever it is , but |
| 15 | Except that it does n't work like that . |
| 16 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 17 | It is similar to the scale bar on a typewriter , except that it does not indicate the widths of the margins on each side of the typing line . |
| 18 | ‘ Conveyance ’ means any conveyance construed or adapted for the carriage of a person or persons whether by land , water or air , except that it does not include a conveyance constructed or adapted for use only under the control of a person not carried in or on it , and ‘ drive ’ shall be construed accordingly . |
| 19 | The first five notes of Clemens 's bass are indeed those of the plainsong eighth-tone Magnificat , but his superius is identical with that of Sermisy 's ‘ C'est une dure despartie ’ except that it does not follow Sermisy 's repeat of the first two phrases and does repeat his last phrase . |
| 20 | I have no regrets about the divorce — except that it did n't happen sooner . |
| 21 | The statement of 12 January 1987 was completely consistent with Zaidie 's evidence on incidents ( a ) to ( e ) , except that it did not mention a threat in connection with incident ( d ) . |
| 22 | The large government service organisation consulted accepted that although it had not needed to recruit a team yet , ‘ we may do ’ . |
| 23 | In a climate where what is thought is less important than that it does not deviate from what it is ‘ correct ’ to think , the use of grids can illuminate the unique aspects of individual insight . |
| 24 | There is a childlike belief at the Foreign Office that if it does not admit to the existence of MI6 , foreign governments will believe Britain does not spy on them . |
| 25 | In the case of the simple penal code , the essential reason it is in the interest of a firm in this case to carry out the threat of punishment is that it believes that if it does not it itself will be punished . |
| 26 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 27 | So before SuperSparc corrals all the business , he 's sending Sun messages in the press that if it does n't buy HyperSparc — also known as Pinnacle — he 's going to turn round and do the Alpha for DEC . |
| 28 | USL is worried that if it does n't act now , such a practice may become more widespread . |
| 29 | In the Western Fells region covered by the FRCC Scafell , Dow and Eskdale Guide , Al Phizaclea continues to explore nooks and crannies with the philosophy that if it does n't move and is n't already in the guide then it must be climbed . |
| 30 | One of the speakers was suggesting that a proposal should be judged on its merits when it comes forward for approval to the registering authority and that if it does n't fit into the set pattern , that should n't necessarily debar it . |