Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] it [prep] the " 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 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
3 | Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . ) |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The model does not make it over the top of the loop and starts to fall inverted . |
6 | Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes . |
7 | We do not want it in the dictionary . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Thirdly , and consequentially , I argued that the elements of harmful consequences liability which are exhibited by the criminal law do not disqualify it from the status of positive moral order , because conventional morality ( as opposed to the critical morality of Kant or Smith , for example ) incorporates a notion of moral luck and indeed our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without some such idea . |
10 | If the commissioner finds maladministration and the authority does not remedy it to the satisfaction of the complainant , there is no way in which the complainant can pursue the matter further . |
11 | It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect . |
12 | Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | By the time you 've booby-trapped your car , or hired an armed guard for it , walked miles , found the crag and avoided the most polished routes you might not consider it worth the hassle . |
17 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
18 | ‘ I 'd rather not discuss it on the phone . |
19 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
20 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
21 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
22 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
23 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
24 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
25 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
26 | She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share . |
27 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
28 | The British Museum might be glad of the opportunity to study your find , so why not send it to the Keeper of Coins and Medals , who will quickly return it with his comments ? |
29 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
30 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |