Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the important things is to enjoy the preparation and not make it into a chore . |
| 2 | It seems better not to include it as a criterion of value , once it is clearly distinguished from probability . |
| 3 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 4 | For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word . |
| 5 | To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms . |
| 6 | If Sartre 's endeavour to ground the Marxist science of history suggests that the Hegelian totality and continuum can only work by a continual labour of excluding the partial and discontinuous , Althusser 's effort to constitute a differentiated history shows that you can not do it without a teleology . |
| 7 | It is because of this fact , that ‘ DEAC ’ the manufacturer states that if a battery is being discharged at the 110 rate you should not discharge it to a voltage of less than 1.1 volts per cell . |
| 8 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's just noticed she 's not had it for a week or so . ’ |
| 10 | M79 is in the same field with 41 , and against a dark sky there should be no real problem in locating it , though under moonlight conditions I can not see it without a telescope . |
| 11 | As constant access is needed to the board , it is probably better not to put it in a box . |
| 12 | But they have not replaced it with a presumption that the market can always be left to get on with it . |
| 13 | There is also a particular difficulty with care for the unemployed ; not only is the research team unable to use return to work as an end point , but the patient also does not have it as an objective and he has therefore nothing to aim at . |
| 14 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |
| 15 | Please do not take it as an example that you may all leap to your feed to make your bids . |
| 16 | If a truth is complicated , a character remarks in An Accidental Man ( 1971 ) , ‘ you have to be an artist not to utter it as a lie ’ . |
| 17 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
| 18 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 19 | Well er y it 's you can not solve it by a security policy alone . |
| 20 | In the US during the 1970s , the cultural climate in economic thinking was soft on inflation , and the Fed did not tackle it as a result , even though it had the power to do so . |
| 21 | They laughed , although she had not meant it as a joke . |
| 22 | He just had some time to spare waiting for Maria Luisa to return and why not fill it with a bit of Ruth-baiting ? |
| 23 | However , if the prosecution does not raise it as a motive for murder the defence is unlikely to challenge this . |
| 24 | This plant dislikes draughts so keep it well-protected or sheltered and do not position it near a window which is likely to be opened . |
| 25 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 26 | I warned against it at the time , telling investors not to touch it with a bargepole . |
| 27 | While there is trouble between Copt and Moslem he can not offer it to a Copt nor a Copt take it . ’ |
| 28 | On paper , Peter could have described his mother 's face in terms of its component parts but he could not visualize it as a whole . |
| 29 | The thing is , the trouble with that is when you try and understand or argue about something like that you ca n't treat it as a work of art cos it is n't it 's a functioning building |
| 30 | I do n't regard it as a sacrifice . ’ |