Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … As to the matter of there being no appeal from an arbitrary sentence ; it is true , the case is the harder , because the party is concluded by one judgment , but it doth not lessen the validity of the sentence , nor doth it in any way prove that you shall find out some way to examine this matter at law in a judicial proceeding . |
| 2 | ‘ Yer never know what would 'ave 'appened if it 'ad n't rained . ’ |
| 3 | We have simply asked it to agree not to rake over the events of the past and to join us in making it clear these events are behind us . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose . |
| 5 | Loretta forced a smile , and judged it better not to answer . |
| 6 | She spoke with such vehemence Wilson thought it better not to risk a reply , though in her head she practised saying what nonsense she thought Mrs Browning spoke . |
| 7 | He thought it better not to mention it was he who had been responsible for both his accidents . |
| 8 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 9 | Mungo 's head buzzed with a dozen more questions , but again he thought it better not to ask them . |
| 10 | Perhaps they did n't want to scare me and thought it better not to say too much , but I wish they had said something . |
| 11 | The teaching body in the university , so far as it has not joined ‘ The Thing ’ , has always preferred to accept the philosophy of ‘ The Thing ’ rather than reassert what it well knew was the requisite of any academic society . |
| 12 | For example , in circumstances where there may be legitimate public concern about the violation of human rights by the new regime , or the manner in which it achieved power , it has not sufficed to say that the announcement of ‘ recognition ’ is simply a neutral formality . |
| 13 | ‘ No , perhaps it has not crossed your young imagination . |
| 14 | This is a slightly complicated theory , so naturally it has not become as well-known as ‘ schema and correction ’ … |
| 15 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 16 | It has not emerged in isolation and is a strand of the overall trend in personal computing towards extremely small , powerful , easy-to-use devices . |
| 17 | Scott hints his appointment may also herald B&W 's return to TV advertising — a medium it has not exploited recently . |
| 18 | Because the RAWP formula is only used to determine shares of the nationally allocated budget for the NHS , it has not suffered from the same instability of allocations for individual Regional Health Authorities that has occurred for Local Authorities . |
| 19 | It has not reneged on any of its claims , but , with the box having become a symbol of the garbage crisis , it concedes that " our customers just do n't feel good about it " . |
| 20 | Paradoxically it has not developed a formalised set of principles or immutable knowledge which could , for example , be structured into an academic text-book about socio-technical systems . |
| 21 | The relationship between the socio-economic character of a local authority ( L.A. ) and its expenditure on education is a crucial issue but it has not received adequate research attention . |
| 22 | Surely it has not received £250,000 or more . |
| 23 | CITROEN disputes Daihatsu 's economical motoring laurels ; while admitting that it has not tackled the Round Britain run yet , it says that its AX diesel has achieved 112.01 mph over a 100 mile road route . |
| 24 | If it has not turned to yoghurt , then the original yoghurt was not live . |
| 25 | It has not turned out that way , of course . |
| 26 | concerned this rule still stands and it has not expired . |
| 27 | It has not examined all the options of its customers and the consequences ( rewards or penalties ) to customers of each option . |
| 28 | Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps prejudice now has other targets , but it has not gone away . |
| 30 | The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds . |