Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [conj] it [verb] " 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 I think at the moment the it 's the Scottish theory , not proven but it looks promising .
3 It must be right for auditors to audit and for regulators to regulate and I do not think that it helps the argument for there to be an overlap in responsibilities and in some way , as I say , to turn auditors into snoopers and narks er er and make more supine one 's er regulators .
4 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 .
5 they did not think that it had been a whole school effort ;
6 I actually understood what the Hon. and learned Gentleman said , which is unusual , although I do not think that it contributed much to the debate .
7 And I do not think that it means , as counsel argued , the individuals who inhabit these islands .
8 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 .
9 I do not think that it matters greatly whether this kind of contract is called a sale or not .
10 I well understand why Opposition Members are looking rather depressed today , but I do not think that it has anything to do with catering facilities in the House .
11 But not to see that it exists shows a surprising ( and therefore interesting ) blindness .
12 There was no tax invoice because the firm was not registered when it billed for the work .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Although the long tendon attaching to digit 3 will develop initially , even though it does not attach to a muscle , it will not persist unless it does attach .
16 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 .
17 The Department of Health said it would not comment until it received details of the proposals .
18 Although this questionnaire was based upon insights from case studies of self-evaluation in Solihull secondary schools , it was of course inevitable that some Solihull teachers might not consider that it asked what were , for them , the most pertinent questions .
19 Those who subscribe to this view would disagree with the proposal of the FRED that where a warrant lapses unexercised the amount previously recognised should be reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , since they do not consider that it represents a gain to the company .
20 Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it .
21 I do not consider that it has been shown that she exercised her discretion inappropriately or wrongly .
22 I have already expressed the view that the scarcity of references in the books to the prerogative of keeping the peace within the realm does not disprove that it exists .
23 Its growth was to cause a storm of protest in the next century from archbishops less inclined to travel than Sigeric ; but we need not doubt that it arose because Sigeric and his like were delighted to have an excuse to go on pilgrimage , and the diary he has left of his movements dwells especially on the many churches in Rome worth a pilgrim 's attention .
24 It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity .
25 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 .
26 They did not know whether it cleared because people had left voluntarily , or because people had been evicted , but clear it did .
27 Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them .
28 She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later .
29 Some of us though , working at the ground , grass roots ma may not know that it goes on , and er , I would just like to take this opportunity of stressing how important it is to , that we communicate within the United Kingdom , and er , support Nigel 's er , suggestion that it would be useful to have a base down here .
30 ( 3 ) If the party tendering the document did what was reasonably sufficient to give the other party notice of the conditions , and if the other party knew that there was writing or printing on the document , but did not know that it contained conditions , then the conditions will become the terms of the contract between them .
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