Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think it probably would , but I do n't think that 's any reason for not starting it and for not seeing it as a major goal , because after all erm the travel market , as we 've heard , is extremely competitive erm people really do vote with their feet and if we do n't then people wo n't come here , and now we really have got a fight on our hands to encourage people to come here , particularly from North America . |
| 2 | In Ball , above , the court mentioned the " aimed at " doctrine but did not treat it as a separate element . |
| 3 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |
| 4 | My idea now is to get a type rating on the 700 , not to explore it as a journalistic exercise . |
| 5 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 6 | ( iii ) It is important that pupils working towards level 7 and beyond have increasing opportunities to use spoken Standard English , and in particular that those who do not speak it as a native dialect should be helped to extend their language competence so that they can use Standard English with confidence . |
| 7 | But no one has yet been able to identify ‘ extra ’ income , and enterprises do not show it as a separate category . |
| 8 | Yet I recently visited a hi-tech company which was fully conversant with activity-based costing yet did not do it on a regular annual basis . |
| 9 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |
| 10 | However desirable it is that they receive training , many do not see it as a practical proposition . |
| 11 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 12 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |
| 13 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 14 | The next logical step was to present the bream with a small hook and bait which would be more likely to be right inside their lips when they began to carry it off , but to still retain the heaviness so that they could not manage it with a mere suck . |
| 15 | Dreikurs advises parents to restrict talking to friendly conversations and not use it as a disciplinary measure . |
| 16 | When he said to Cassin " Nous sommes la France " , he did not mean it in a rhetorical sense . |
| 17 | If it would be a decision not to offer it to a patient dependent on the NHS must be a decision about rationing of resources rather than about clinical need . |
| 18 | In Berry ( No. 2 ) , the applicant , B , had been convicted of making an explosive in circumstances giving rise to the reasonable suspicion that he was not making it for a lawful object . |
| 19 | Democracy was demanded , and admitted , on the ground that it was unfair not to have it in a competitive society . |
| 20 | We do not promote it as a deprived area where there are financial incentives ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It is a healthy environment — we do not promote it as a deprived area where there are lots of financial incentives . ’ |
| 22 | That is a pig of a road , I must admit , I do n't know why they do n't make it into a dual carriage way . |
| 23 | If you have greenhouse or coldframe , a wise insurance policy it to root cuttings of susceptible species in July and over-winter these under glass just in case the parents do n't make it through a bad winter . |
| 24 | Having decided to surrender to his plans for the evening — lunch had been a light one and already the pangs of hunger were making themselves felt — she would n't do it without a token show of resistance . |
| 25 | Could n't do it with a black one . |
| 26 | Do n't do it in a provocative way — just quickly and calmly step back a couple of paces when you have finished , to increase the distance between you . |
| 27 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 28 | Well , I have n't seen it in a little box yet . |
| 29 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 30 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |