Example sentences of "not [vb infin] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 2 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 3 | The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up . |
| 4 | It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect . |
| 5 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 6 | It did not seem to me , in that incomplete version , quite to come off , and I still do not regard it among the successful poems . |
| 7 | So while differential wage rates might explain the preponderance of women in the Mauritius EPZ , they do not explain it in the Mexican maquilas ( in-bond factories ) . |
| 8 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | He did not realize it in the Sixties , nor the Seventies . |
| 10 | And while Robert Wilson admits that the appeal of managing his own company could become a reality one day , he does not envisage it in the near future . |
| 11 | Or if you 're not in a position to make a decision , why not suggest it to the woolly mammoth ? |
| 12 | If we baldly declare the Bible world-picture and do not interpret it to the modern world in such a way as to make it intelligible , we are useless . |
| 13 | For its part , the trial does not test factual accuracy alone and does not test it by the same method as that employed by the police in their own investigation . |
| 14 | The past by its nature is only indirectly available to us ; we can not enter it with the same immediacy as the present . |
| 15 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |
| 16 | The Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) survived the abolition of the Greater London Council , but its control by Labour did not endear it to the Conservative government . |
| 17 | Mr Hitchens said : ‘ We did not get it from the Labour party . ’ |
| 18 | The report dated 27th June , 1857 , was forwarded by Buckler to Hall , who said he did not receive it until the following Monday evening , 29th June . |
| 19 | The chief stars , Alpha ( 3.9 ) , Delta ( 4.5 ) and Gamma ( 4.7 ) form a triangle ; do not confuse it with the smaller , fainter triangle formed by Alpha , Beta and 9 Equulei . |
| 20 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 21 | A proliferation of pentecostal and evangelical sects , and the success of the Salvation Army ( founded in 1878 ) seemed to show that though the masses could still be moved by religious fervour , they could not find it in the established churches . |