Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ( 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I do not think it right to ban all these services . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Although , I agree , some of them might not think it very appropriate . |
| 8 | He had seen the Eiffel Tower so many times in photographs or on television he did not think it really existed . |
| 9 | It is now almost impossible to imagine how doctors did not diagnose it before . |
| 10 | There are now that might not cover it anyway that 's |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But , evidently , they did not eat it very much . |
| 14 | Its frequency however does not make it right . |
| 15 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ But it does not make it right . |
| 19 | Vehemently , she added , ‘ But that does not make it right ! |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 23 | They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party . |
| 24 | To profit , the PROFITBOSS can not make it all himself . |
| 25 | If straw is used as a fuel , will that not make it much more expensive to the horse fraternity ? |
| 26 | This does not make it any the less disturbing and below we will discuss contemporary styles of delinquency in greater detail . |
| 27 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 28 | On the other hand , the fact that a threat is couched in polite and regretful language does not make it any less a threat , and there is little value in the distinction which has been suggested between a warning and a threat . |
| 29 | Whilst the issue of ‘ crimes of the powerful ’ , to use Pearce 's ( 1976 ) evocative phrase , is now often portrayed as a left-wing cliche , this does not make it any the less a problem . |
| 30 | I thought you might not make it then , and I really felt sad for you . |