Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 2 | Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . ) |
| 3 | The model does not make it over the top of the loop and starts to fall inverted . |
| 4 | Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes . |
| 5 | We do not want it in the dictionary . |
| 6 | Thirdly , and consequentially , I argued that the elements of harmful consequences liability which are exhibited by the criminal law do not disqualify it from the status of positive moral order , because conventional morality ( as opposed to the critical morality of Kant or Smith , for example ) incorporates a notion of moral luck and indeed our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without some such idea . |
| 7 | If the commissioner finds maladministration and the authority does not remedy it to the satisfaction of the complainant , there is no way in which the complainant can pursue the matter further . |
| 8 | Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production . |
| 9 | By the time you 've booby-trapped your car , or hired an armed guard for it , walked miles , found the crag and avoided the most polished routes you might not consider it worth the hassle . |
| 10 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd rather not discuss it on the phone . |
| 12 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 13 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 14 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 15 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 16 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 17 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 18 | She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share . |
| 19 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
| 20 | The British Museum might be glad of the opportunity to study your find , so why not send it to the Keeper of Coins and Medals , who will quickly return it with his comments ? |
| 21 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
| 22 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |
| 23 | My source tells me : ‘ The firemen were very helpful and attempted to remove the offending smoke sensor but could not isolate it from the system so the demonstration continued with shorter cooking times and lower temperatures to reduce the flames . |
| 24 | She fell to her knees by the head of her youngest son , cradled it , yet did not lift it from the snow . |
| 25 | The Principle of Partial Inverses shows that FRF ′ R ’ does not affect a piece like FL because F does not carry it into the overlap region , hence it is unaffected by R , then restored by F ’ and again left unaffected by R ′ . |
| 26 | I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar . |
| 27 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 28 | You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay . |
| 29 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 30 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |