Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not . |
| 2 | It is equally absurd , however , to claim ( as the industry does ) that advertising does not expand ( or slow the contraction of ) the market and that it does not in fact recruit new smokers . |
| 3 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 4 | I knew there was a water leak there but if it had n't with rain that it definitely was a water leak . |
| 5 | This is almost to concede , if it does not in fact do so , that a board deriving its authority from two opposed sources can not constitute a corporate body such as decision-taking requires . |
| 6 | Significantly , Leslie Howard , in the famous film of 1938 , misunderstood this phrase , which he uttered as if it referred not to sex but to Eliza herself . |
| 7 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 8 | Shorts register civilian Tucano G-BULU below which would logically have meant an appearance at the SBAC show , but it did not in fact appear . |
| 9 | Such a record might appear to be an occasion for delight in consumers and pride in the industry , but it did not in fact arise from efficiency increases ( indeed physical indices of efficiency showed a decline because of inadequate investment in new plant ) . |
| 10 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 11 | It is therefore of enormous interest to examine the means by which it did so ; for it emerged not in order to correct to revise an existing literary theory , but in order to make possible the very notion of such a thing . |