Example sentences of "it [verb] not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
2 | It is in this rarefied atmosphere that IBM may find the key to once again making itself the preferred partner of big business — a role that it has not recently played to sufficiently enthusiastic reviews . |
3 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
4 | And the next time you buy something from a shop and find there 's something wrong with it do n't just jump to conclusions that you 've been deliberately cheated . |
5 | oh it do n't bloody matter to me |
6 | 'Cos she does n't drink it with milk , so it do n't really matter to her . |
7 | In automated office systems there may be a unique record but earlier versions of it do not necessarily have to be stored . |
8 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
9 | In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions . |
10 | It did not usually occur to the client that DPR might be prospering from his losses . |
11 | While the Danzig Poles were not keen for the city to come under Polish rule , they were nevertheless determined that they should not be penalised for being Polish , and in their own way they were proud of their identity — even if it did not quite amount to ‘ nationality ’ in a conventional sense . |
12 | It did not seriously occur to her to approach Canon Wheeler himself . |
13 | So it , it did n't really matter to me . |
14 | It did n't really occur to either of us that it would end , and there would be a baby . |
15 | Peter Rogers knew he had hit a gold mine , even if it did n't always seem to the performers that he was totally on their side . |
16 | Now I was beginning to see that it did n't necessarily have to be that way . |
17 | It had not previously occurred to Camille that he might . |
18 | Erm and the erm I saw John at lunchtime and I mentioned it to him because he , he said that , it had n't even occurred to me till then , because he said I 'm concentrating on the surveying side and I thought ha ha ha to you my friend . |
19 | He was more upset at having caused this worry to Lachlan than at the near-strangling ; and it had n't once occurred to him to draw his dirk to save himself . |
20 | For all the week that Timothy Gedge had been tormenting them it had n't once occurred to her , which surprised her as she prayed now . |
21 | It does not even occur to the reader that the baby might have cried one year in Singapore and be picked up by its mother a year later in Aden . |
22 | Tom Arnold himself is appointed , not elected and , although he reports to a committee ‘ representing ’ the voluntary party , he is not accountable to that committee , nor is that committee elected by the constituency associations on whose behalf it is supposed to act ( it does not even report to them ) . |
23 | From the premises a > b and b> c , it does not simply happen to be the case that a> c . |
24 | Indeed , one of the attractions of Madeira is that it does not outwardly appear to be specifically geared to tourism . |
25 | It does not just refer to ‘ sharp business practices ’ and people making slightly greater profits than they should . |
26 | Military expenditure is seen as dysfunctional for the overall performance of the economy because it does not directly contribute to the balance of payments . |
27 | " As initially present to the mind " is to be taken strictly in terms of the syntactic-semantic construction of expressions ; it does not directly refer to any aspect of an external situation which may be represented by an expression . |
28 | So , while product development has been impressive , and confirms a certain level of re-investment , it does not usually lead to development of medium-sized businesses with tangible assets . |
29 | ‘ It does not hit the headlines ; it does not readily rise to the top of any politician 's list of immediate concerns , ’ says Sir Eric . |
30 | As counselling proceeds it does not always continue to be the sympathetic process of listening , support and approval . |