Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It did not offer more choice but less than there was before . |
| 32 | And yet it did not hold any of them back . |
| 33 | And even in an area which is working well , Next Directory , the company failed to capitalise on strong demand , which lifted sales by 49 per cent , because it did not hold enough stock . |
| 34 | I supposed , since to him Neil was only ‘ John Parsons ’ , it did not matter either way , and if Ewen saw the little pile of debris — tins and used paper plates and my thermos — that I had left outside the tent , it would surely go to persuade him that Neil was safely ensconced on the island . |
| 35 | On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . |
| 36 | Yet the first indications that London was soon to show explosive growth were already present , and it did not need much foresight to see that it would not be long before any green-field site chosen near London for the location of the College would soon be engulfed in bricks and mortar , which would sweep away hay- and grazing-fields , market gardens and brickfields alike . |
| 37 | The Realpolitik of Berlin detached the definition of the new Germany from Germanism — it did not include all Germans nor did it exclude non-Germans . |
| 38 | It did not include any grants to the universities in Scotland , which are the responsibility of the DES ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Tables 15.1 , 15.2 and 21.4.12 ) . |
| 39 | It did not include any formula for the future determination of pay , a principal element of the unions ' original claim , and ambulance workers on Merseyside declared an all-out stoppage from Feb. 26 until the results were known of a national membership ballot , in which , however , 81 per cent supported acceptance of the deal ( as announced on March 13 ) . |
| 40 | Publicly , Israeli officials criticized the resolution , but privately many declared it to be " tolerable " in that it did not recommend any concrete UN steps against Israel . |
| 41 | It did not produce any direct advance in therapeutics , but it remained as evidence that powerful antibacterial agents were not incompatible with living human tissues , and that chemical methods of investigation were essential for solving biological problems . |
| 42 | It did not follow that , because the architect was under a duty to act fairly in making a valuation for the certificates , he was acting in a judicial capacity and therefore immune from liability to his principal for loss caused to him by a negligent valuation . |
| 43 | 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 ’ . |
| 44 | It did not sound that serious to Edward , given the circumstances of Neville Chamberlain 's fall from grace . |
| 45 | It did not look enough but tight spells from John Carpenter , Phil Gill and Gary Pike put the pressure on and Leyland folded to 60 all out . |
| 46 | But it did not garner any reductions in repayments due . |
| 47 | The European Court overrode Italian civil law and stated that it did not consider these posts to be in the public service . |
| 48 | But it did not provide enough segregated schools and enough women teachers to educate the girls separately from the boys in all cases , and it did not have the strength to insist that girls should be educated in mixed schools by male teachers : most Libyan parents would have objected strongly to laws compelling mixed education . |
| 49 | It was not , therefore , a purpose designed polymer and yet it did not have any serious competitor until hydrogels emerged as potential contact lens materials some years later . |
| 50 | My body was all of a piece , it did not have any seams . |
| 51 | Bearing in mind the size of the KGB 's foreign operations it would be surprising if it did not have some successes . |
| 52 | It bore no relation to the Charter , it was n't irreverent and anti-establishment , the pictures were n't strong enough , it did not have enough on ethnicity or women , it was n't exciting , different , political or inspirational . |
| 53 | Only a few months ago , Neath borough council complained that it did not have enough money for housing . |
| 54 | The Inland Revenue said that it did not have enough workers to carry out the revaluation in England and Wales , so from that date there were no revaluations of property . |
| 55 | In the true spirit of liberal compromise , the eps league combines both these measures , leaving LLoyds Abbey Life the winner even though it did not top either individual table . |
| 56 | It did not require much effort on Gehlen 's part to convince the Americans that the real enemy was Russia and with his help they could have a ready-made intelligence organisation . |
| 57 | Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly . |
| 58 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |