Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The words may be brilliant , the sentences may be perfectly constructed but it has n't got that life in it that the more spontaneous talking will have , and it 's less persuasive .
2 No , but it do n't work that way
3 If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ .
4 They watched television with pleasure , but treated its political messages with much the same scepticism as they did ordinary speeches and broadcasts : it did not seem that television had greater persuasive power to mould Zuwaya minds than other media .
5 yet it did n't feel that way to the young doctors .
6 But it did n't happen that way .
7 Well , it did n't happen that way .
8 It did n't work that way at all .
9 It did n't help that Mom had candy and nuts in dishes all over the house .
10 A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants .
11 Robyn asked coolly , aware that this was in danger of turning into a real humdinger of a slanging match — if it had n't achieved that status already !
12 This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all .
13 It had n't worked that way .
14 Though he might have intended to remain cool and detached , unmoved , it had n't worked that way .
15 ‘ If it does not show that commitment , then the pressures from modern agriculture , neglect and creeping urbanisation will destroy all that is best in our countryside ’ .
16 Now whenever I speak , this provides grounds for believing that I have vocal chords ; but it does not express that fact .
17 However , the content required for such targets is inadequate for a true presentation of the Catholic faith tradition — it does not embody that content which adherents know as the essential elements of their faith .
18 Er in paragraph a hundred and eight of that paper and I 'd I 'd like to read er read a quotation out , However because an exception is not acknowledged it does not mean that provision could not be made for this .
19 Kiesling concludes : ‘ It does not appear that femaleness , femininity , womanhood as such is the barrier to woman 's receiving holy orders , but femaleness in a state of subjection . ’
20 But it does not work that way .
21 It does not help that Cherubini allows too little variety of pace , and that his lyrical gift is limited too .
22 It does not help that Cherubini allows too little variety of pace , and that his lyrical gift is limited too .
23 The net result may be neutral as Mr Lamont claims , but it does not look that way to the casual viewer who may as a result end the day in a gloomier mood than he began .
24 It does not follow that Parliament had the same intention when , whatever criteria are adopted , all spaces in the school will be filled in any event .
25 Now clearly a teaching approach which goes against the grain of natural disposition will create needless difficulties for the learner , as I pointed out earlier in reference to translation and the focusing on form , but it does not follow that pedagogy must therefore simply accommodate that disposition .
26 Even though a patient aged 80 years will usually face a higher operative mortality and a shorter expectation of life than a patient aged 40 years , it does not follow that surgery is not worthwhile for the 80 year old .
27 It does not follow that law can have any content .
28 One will be a reminder that , even if the above conclusions are correct , it does not follow that creativity and psychosis ( or the tendency to it ) are entirely synonymous .
29 If utilitarianism has no way of making equity matter , it does not follow that equity is unimportant or insignificant .
30 Although it is certainly necessary to protect ethnic minorities from verbal attack , and to signal society 's disapproval of all forms of racial abuse , it does not follow that criminalization is always the best method of doing this .
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