Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not seeing it right at the minute . |
| 2 | And while I think we ought to do what we can , I think there 's a line which ought to be drawn , and I do honestly wonder whether twenty-one , it was eighteen last year , and I just wonder if perhaps we should erm try and switch some of these to mid-week , so that we 're not seeing it virtually every Saturday of the year . |
| 3 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 4 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 5 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 6 | ( e ) I would not think it right , especially bearing in mind the development of the concept of economic duress , to regard the categories of compulsion for present purposes as closed . |
| 7 | Of course we hope that Dounreay will diversify and look for work outside nuclear tasks , especially in the area of alternative and renewable energies ; but we all know that the fast reactor programme will cease in 1994 and I do not think it right that , as a matter of policy , the hon. Lady should seek to shut off the work going on there to reprocess nuclear fuel . |
| 8 | I do not think it right to ban all these services . |
| 9 | Might they not think it more sensible to throw in their lot with their fellow Germans west of the Elbe , who know as much about running a liberal capitalist society as anybody , and have abundant reserves of capital , not to speak of generous welfare benefits ? |
| 10 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 11 | ‘ Although , I agree , some of them might not think it very appropriate . |
| 12 | He had seen the Eiffel Tower so many times in photographs or on television he did not think it really existed . |
| 13 | Watch it , put the top on the felt tip Charlotte when you 're not using it otherwise you 'll get it all over you , you get it over er everything else Aaron |
| 14 | Cos we 're not using it lately . |
| 15 | But nearly half of those who had used it in the past , though not using it currently , rated it as never good . |
| 16 | It is now almost impossible to imagine how doctors did not diagnose it before . |
| 17 | There are now that might not cover it anyway that 's |
| 18 | Yeah hello mate yeah yeah I do n't know I 've not received it yet no so I 'm just waiting for er someone to bomb into my office yeah do you want it , what , what , do you want it colour mate or black and white ? |
| 19 | ‘ We 're not firing it here , and well you bloody know it . |
| 20 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 21 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 22 | But , evidently , they did not eat it very much . |
| 23 | Its frequency however does not make it right . |
| 24 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 25 | I have suggested that it can be shown to be fair or just to do so ; but this may not make it right if some other principle of greater weight is involved . |
| 26 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 27 | ‘ But it does not make it right . |
| 28 | Vehemently , she added , ‘ But that does not make it right ! |
| 29 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 30 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |