Example sentences of "[prep] it [pers pn] [modal v] not " in BNC.

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1 Answer guide : On the face of it you may not need much financial information as you are not judged on profitability over which you have little control as selling prices and buying prices are fixed .
2 In it we can not go to any of the extremes because we are aware of them all .
3 That is really my position and , unless I believed in it I would not feel justified in the course I have taken .
4 Not only throughout Britain , but in many parts of Europe and in the New World , it was widely accepted that if a person succeeded in erecting a dwelling on common or waste land between sunset and sunrise and lighting a fire in it he could not lawfully be dispossessed .
5 They are choosing to do this because they have learned that without it they can not sustain their good intentions .
6 The labelling matters ; without it they can not rebuild the alien 's spaceship .
7 Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity .
8 As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) .
9 Without it we could not possibly deliver the high quality of service that we do .
10 Without it we should not have the motive or stimulus to reach our goals or survive some of the situations in which we find ourselves .
11 Without it I can not proceed . ’
12 Without it he can not attain to full powers either of learning or of teaching in any .
13 He always needed that : without it he could not feel easy in himself .
14 But without it she could not pay for her coffee and salad .
15 However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again .
16 She gulped hard , struggling to suppress the impulse to laugh , knowing that if she gave in to it she would not be able to stop .
17 But there was a quality to it he would not have expected .
18 Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river .
19 He saw lettering on it he could not make out , although he had the presence of mind to record the scene on a video .
20 If the order goes ahead we take material A out of stock and since we have no other use for it we will not replace it — no cash flow .
21 If people had to put their hands in their own pockets and had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’
22 Tribunal chairman Mr Brown said : ‘ The cause of the trouble is free alcohol if people had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’
23 And , and how it got the name Hole , was there 's supposed to be gold buried somewhere up there , but what quantity or anything about it I can not tell you .
24 The reply was , ‘ Not Rs5,000 , Your Ex cell ency , but Rs25,000 , but now that you speak to me about it I will not take it . ’
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