Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 2 | ‘ His hip 's not mending as quickly as it ought , which makes him very impatient . |
| 3 | If he takes his clothes off , which he does not do very easily because it hurts so much , one sees open wounds from the top of his chest down to his toes . |
| 4 | Another reason why coaching does not occur as often as it might is due to the time pressures which every manager faces . |
| 5 | The Tender is the defenders ' finest weapon , and is not used as often as it should be . |
| 6 | A high skin means oil can not flow as easily as it could from an undamaged well . |
| 7 | In some schools , the library committee did not meet as frequently as it might have ; nor was it always as open and participatory as might have been hoped , and in at least one school the committee was subverted and eventually dissolved by senior staff . |
| 8 | There the nectar does not evaporate as quickly as it would if it were in a more exposed position . |
| 9 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 10 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 11 | Wales still struggled for possession although Copsey 's aggressive involvement ensured that Ireland 's ball was not delivered as smoothly as it might have been . |
| 12 | Because it is a large fish , it is not kept as often as it should be , as it is a very peaceful fish for its size . |
| 13 | We have a situation where the landowner is going to have to sell land relatively cheaply , in order that the land then , the land prices do not reflect too horrendously when it comes through to the price that has to be paid by the person who 's going to occupy the property ; either in terms of a letting figure or of something which is going to be an , effectively a mortgage figure . |
| 14 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 15 | Actually if you 've a complete number of repeats , it does n't matter too much whether it a full repeat or a half repeat at the edges , as both can be mattress stitched to give a continuous unbroken pattern effect . |
| 16 | I have n't decided yet exactly where it will first be shown . ’ |
| 17 | As I 've described it above , the process differs from modern multi-track technique , because the ‘ backing track ’ went through a number of generations , while modern multi-track tape recorders keep each layer separate ; so the technique was n't used as fully as it might have been , because the quality dropped each time . |
| 18 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 19 | Did n't sell as well as it ought to have , that book . |
| 20 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
| 21 | Steamer sometimes anchored off and sometimes it did n't anchor there was too much wind I guess the anchor did n't hold too well when it was a rough day . |
| 22 | I did n't care very much whether it was a half or a seventh . |
| 23 | ‘ At the time I also appeared in an episode of the Skyways series which did n't last too long because it was pretty dreadful , ’ remembered Kylie . |