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 . |