Example sentences of "it [verb] not [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has not emerged in isolation and is a strand of the overall trend in personal computing towards extremely small , powerful , easy-to-use devices . |
| 2 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 3 | But it did n't work in fog . |
| 4 | This ancient puzzle has prompted some philosophers to draw a distinction between " being " and actual existence , and to claim that what is being talked about in such cases has being , even though it does not exist in reality . |
| 5 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 6 | Further confirmation of the bare infinitive 's ability to express a coincident potentiality is provided by uses in exclamations where it does not occur in relation with a modal : ( 7 ) What ! |
| 7 | Twist it into places and things it does n't do in daylight hours . |
| 8 | But it does n't work in space , right ? ’ |