Example sentences of "not [verb] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 2 | Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence . |
| 3 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 4 | It 's a dog does not entail It has four legs |
| 5 | At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions . |
| 6 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 7 | We 're not doing it to compensate Social Services |
| 8 | You did not mean it to happen this time . |
| 9 | Natural selection does favour those animals that are most successful in the competition for resources , but that does not mean it favours unrestrained aggression . |
| 10 | The Vienna Convention defines a treaty as an agreement ‘ governed by international law ’ and does not require it to allocate legal rights and obligations . |
| 11 | During all the years that the Scottish Select Committee existed , I do not recall it undertaking that task . |
| 12 | Those whose attitudes are negative and who consequently will have a powerful filter , even when they understand a message in the second language , will not allow it to reach that part of the brain responsible for language acquisition . |
| 13 | No you 're not put it down , go away that 's for Benjamin 's birthday , I do n't want it getting dirty while were having er tea |
| 14 | Sources say there were only really four companies behind COSE : Unix System Laboratories Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc : beyond that , says the source , Santa Cruz Operation Inc had to fight to get in and the Open Software Foundation was not a party to the negotiations ; but the real power behind the throne , although it does n't want it to appear that way , was of course Novell Inc . |
| 15 | The power behind the throne , though it does n't want it to appear that way , was Novell Inc . |
| 16 | Rickards did n't want it to become public knowledge and it wo n't . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |
| 18 | " I do n't think it makes much difference where we do a bit of scratching , " he said . |
| 19 | But , I do n't think it makes any profit , but , you know , profit . |
| 20 | Erm and I do n't think it looks good hanging out because it 's , you , you paying in the skirt and the belt and that . |
| 21 | At the end of the day I do n't think it affects everyday life in Darlington . |
| 22 | Must be the leaves I think because I do n't think it flowers this shrub here . |
| 23 | I think it means they 're all just older family , I do n't think it means six year olds . |
| 24 | We do n't expect it to cause any problems , and we will still be meeting him for talks some time over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 25 | Let's be fair , now ; I do n't expect it makes much difference to Mrs Morgan , or her cat , " Mr Smith said , and a small smile played over his lips as he glanced at Dan Ashton , who grunted and looked down at his feet while Smith continued , " whether you were joking or in deadly seriousness . " |
| 26 | Sorry , I did n't mean it to sound that way . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't mean it to sound that way , ’ Ruth huffed . |
| 28 | I did n't mean it to happen this way . ’ |
| 29 | It was just incompetence that I did n't get it done this week . |
| 30 | She drank automatically when It was over , noticed only when her glass was empty and did n't let it stay that way long . |