Example sentences of "it [coord] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will see , wrote Harsnet , whether he parts with it or not , whether his greed gets the better of his sentimentality . |
| 2 | It was starting to look as though , whether I liked it or not , I simply might not survive . |
| 3 | Whether they know it or not , they are in fact endorsing Henry Newbolt against Pound ! |
| 4 | Whether the party likes it or not , its fortunes are hostage to the still youthful coalitions in Frankfurt and Berlin , and their notoriously unpredictable Green allies . |
| 5 | ‘ If it works , it will be a model for government whether the SPD likes it or not . ’ |
| 6 | Like it or not , high-tech communications have arrived in the Soviet Union , and the King Canutes of the interior ministry have become an absurdity . |
| 7 | Like it or not , they have inherited the mantle of the great patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and it is a responsibility that they can hardly deny . ’ |
| 8 | This week , believe it or not , another , almost identical saga began . |
| 9 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 10 | At the same time , Eliot saw men and women , whether aware of it or not , as bound to the cycle of manifold yet meaningless ‘ Birth , and copulation , and death ’ , perception of which yielded only ‘ The horror ’ . |
| 11 | In a letter to Henry Savage on 2 December 1913 he writes : ‘ I should like to know why nearly every man that approaches greatness tends to homosexuality , whether he admits it or not ’ ( Letters , 1 15 ) . |
| 12 | As he was the NME 's star writer I guess Malcolm realised that once the band really started to get going , Nick would be able to help us out — whether he knew it or not . |
| 13 | I was going to be moved whether I liked it or not . |
| 14 | It does n't matter whether I like it or not ; it 's a fact of life . |
| 15 | Whether you like it or not , this is a different look . |
| 16 | I 'm still not sure if she means it or not . |
| 17 | In later years , offered the objection that celibacy is not always possible , Lewis the radio evangelist was to be quite unambiguous : ‘ faced with an optional question in an examination paper , one considers whether one can do it or not ; faced with a compulsory question , one must do the best one can … |
| 18 | Like it or not , alternative medicine often reaches parts of the body ordinary NHS treatment fails to reach . |
| 19 | Mr Endara , like it or not , is likely to be leaning fairly heavily on the US for some time to come . |
| 20 | Mick Ronson , Woody Woodmansey and myself would be making backing tracks , having got the brief from David — it was E chord for 16 bars then an A chord for 4 bars and a B chord for 2 bars — and we were just banging out these backing tracks , and David would come into the studio , if we could tear him away from Angela for long enough and say whether he liked it or not . |
| 21 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 22 | Like it or not , however , Asian countries are inevitably being drawn into the conflict . |
| 23 | Well a few weeks ago the city fathers installed dose nasty little tings at a cost , believe it or not , sir , of some turty tree tousand pounds , and the day atterwards dey declared the whole area a no waiting zone . ’ |
| 24 | Name 's Virginia , believe it or not . |
| 25 | Lives in the next village , believe it or not . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm tryin' to think … believe it or not . ’ |
| 27 | To see if I 'd nick it or not . ’ |
| 28 | One thing you soon learn from interviewing Emo ( it 's his real name , believe it or not ) is that you 're never going to get any straight answers . |
| 29 | Believe it or not , even my own branch manager was unaware of changes made in the charges on my account ( through computers , of course ) by his head office and unsurprisingly , the customer — me — was never told . |
| 30 | Whether flockmasters wanted it or not , one was on view for the first time at the Llanelwedd event . |