Example sentences of "it [verb] not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively . |
| 2 | But it has n't in other jurisdictions such as in the US , and parts of the Commonwealth or Europe , ’ said . |
| 3 | This system , generally known as the Cabinet system , has been , in its broad features , adopted by most European constitutional states , and it matters not at all whether they are called monarchies or republics . |
| 4 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 5 | Or perhaps I ought to say it was her spirit , since it resembled not at all any portrait that could have been painted . |
| 6 | On the cold hill , a fence now surrounds the circle , and it interferes not at all with the mood or countenance of the rocks . |
| 7 | The system , with formal judicial intervention , has worked successfully in the US ; it operates informally but without full judicial approval in England and Wales ; but at the present time it obtains not at all in Scotland . |
| 8 | Like the Urban Institute , founded in Washington in 1968 after racial riots across America , it thrived not on private philanthropy but on research contracts from the government . |
| 9 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
| 10 | Western agencies are very envious of Mossad because it relies not on huge arrays of computerised technology but on a small group of efficient and dedicated men and women who are not bothered by any form of morality so long as Israel benefits . |
| 11 | It 's supposed to look like skin , but it do n't at all . |
| 12 | ‘ Those who founded it do not for one moment pretend to be neutral , ’ Lewis confessed . |
| 13 | But it did not at all rule out the possibility of these laws being enunciated by an enlightened monarch . |
| 14 | It took her several seconds to absorb the letter although it did not in any way fill the one sheet of paper . |
| 15 | The fence was erected in order to reinforce a fence which had already been put there by the defendants ' predecessor in title , and it did not in any event enclose the disputed land … |
| 16 | Measures taken by a state in order to ensure that ships flying its flag had a genuine link with it did not by any means need to contain nationality requirements such as those in section 14 of the Act of 1988 . |
| 17 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 18 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 19 | For if that sudden drift of snow in the air a few minutes ago had seemed romantic to the young bride — or the bride 's mother — it had not in any way pleased Cara . |
| 20 | What he saw would n't change Wellington 's thinking : it had n't in fifty years , so why should it now ? |
| 21 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 22 | But it does not at all follow from the fact that causal circumstances in a sense guarantee their effects that we can predict those effects better than we do . |
| 23 | No , the suspense novel does inherit from the traditional detective story that element of mystery ( though this need not involve a murder and the mystery of who committed it ) , but it does not at all inherit the need to have a battle of wits with the reader . |
| 24 | It does not at all . |
| 25 | It does not at this stage include any specific new products . |
| 26 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 27 | The first is that the CED worked with the semantic pairs , in the sense that it gave a statistically significant result , but it does not in this investigation . |
| 28 | Moreover Pt I has other limitations in that it does not in any case apply to all products , neither does it cover damage to business property or to personal property below £275 . |
| 29 | ‘ Owners Abroad have a link with Thomas Cook , but it does not in any way cause these sort of problems . |
| 30 | ‘ Owners Abroad have a link with Thomas Cook , but it does not in any way cause these sort of problems . |