Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [subord] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Department of Health said it would not comment until it received details of the proposals . |
| 4 | It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They did not know whether it cleared because people had left voluntarily , or because people had been evicted , but clear it did . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It does not matter if it communicates totally different ideas to other types of people . |
| 10 | Of all the arguments the Chancellor deploys , the most powerful is the contention that the deficit does not matter because it does not represent borrowing by the public sector — in effect the deficit is all in the private sector . |
| 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 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 13 | A technique such as smoothing will not do because it does not ordinarily produce a linear outcome . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That the argument will not do as it stands is , in fact , conceded in the Three Dialogues , where Berkeley allows Hylas to make the point that , although the existence of a sensible thing might consist in its being perceivable ( as in the premiss ) , it does not ( a fixed upon matter … may … forget that there be such things in the world as Spirits … and at last that there is a God , and that their souls are immortal . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 18 | Similarly , the relativist stance does not work unless it makes an exception of itself which denies its own principle . |
| 19 | Just as in-service education does not work if it has not been tailored to match the stage or condition of the teacher who is to benefit from it , so the manager can not manage unless the method and style of management are acceptable and unless its purposes have been first unravelled and then knitted together after consultation between the manager and the manager 's colleagues . |
| 20 | It would not work because it assumes compliance by those who own the assets and resources , other than labour , of industry ; and that assumption ignores that there inheres in ownership an inalienable right to determine whether , and if so how , to use those assets and resources . |
| 21 | It does not work because it does not meet the problems of intervention . |
| 22 | I can not remember whether it soared off into space from time to time , though I guess it must have . |
| 23 | The cannon ball does not stop where it hits the ground , but bounces straight forward and cuts a line through any targets in the way . |
| 24 | Production does not stop when it stops being an end in itself . |
| 25 | And though I can not return until it pleases the gods to end the world , I have never ceased to long for it . |
| 26 | Hopeful for what he will not miss when it fails |
| 27 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 28 | Such action ‘ simply does not wash if it means children exposed to wholly unsuitable material . |
| 29 | This means simply that there are actions that the executive will not take because it knows that the assembly will make a huge fuss . |
| 30 | The measure of damages in subsection 3 , being prima facie , does not apply where it does not represent the seller 's loss . |