Example sentences of "it [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It refers not to power but to authority , and what I think he means is that although a woman can make good and wise judgements , she can not be the arbiter of that goodness or wisdom . |
| 2 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 3 | Significantly , Leslie Howard , in the famous film of 1938 , misunderstood this phrase , which he uttered as if it referred not to sex but to Eliza herself . |
| 4 | In I Thessalonians 1:5 Paul reminds his readers how the gospel was first preached to them : ‘ it came not in word only , but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in full assurance . ’ |
| 5 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 6 | It did not of course necessarily destroy the monarch 's power of choice . |
| 7 | It did not of course escape Mommsen that there can hardly be a more foolish political speculation , " eine thorichtere politische Spekulation " , than to represent the Roman constitution as a mixed constitution and to derive from it the success of Rome ( Rom . |
| 8 | It did not of course reach the bowl of scummy water , dirty plastic debris and filthy rags and bits of wood on the balcony . |
| 9 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 10 | Shorts register civilian Tucano G-BULU below which would logically have meant an appearance at the SBAC show , but it did not in fact appear . |
| 11 | Such a record might appear to be an occasion for delight in consumers and pride in the industry , but it did not in fact arise from efficiency increases ( indeed physical indices of efficiency showed a decline because of inadequate investment in new plant ) . |
| 12 | Although the reform was thought to have eliminated the possibility of tax rates in excess of 100% , it did not in fact prevent the situation depicted in Table 16.7 with rates of more than 100% over quite long ranges at low levels of income . |
| 13 | Perhaps it did not in truth add up to very much . |
| 14 | It is therefore of enormous interest to examine the means by which it did so ; for it emerged not in order to correct to revise an existing literary theory , but in order to make possible the very notion of such a thing . |
| 15 | If my view that a doctor incurs no liability if he ignores the request to discontinue treatment made by the mentally unfit and minor is correct , it does not of course follow that he would also be free from liability if he complied with their requests . |
| 16 | Although the distinction is useful and well recognised , it does not of course constrain people 's behaviour . |
| 17 | ( It does not of course imply that prices are necessarily constant over time . ) |
| 18 | ‘ The EC should have controls by which it does not to business with countries which do not keep people to a minimum standard , he said . |
| 19 | As water contains oxygen , it does not in fact prevent the paint from drying anyway ! |
| 20 | As water contains oxygen , it does not in fact prevent the paint from drying anyway ! |
| 21 | Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not . |
| 22 | It is equally absurd , however , to claim ( as the industry does ) that advertising does not expand ( or slow the contraction of ) the market and that it does not in fact recruit new smokers . |
| 23 | This is almost to concede , if it does not in fact do so , that a board deriving its authority from two opposed sources can not constitute a corporate body such as decision-taking requires . |
| 24 | I extract significance from melodrama , a significance which it does not in fact contain ; but occasionally , from out of this matter , there escapes a thin beam of light that , seen at the right angle , can crack the shell of mortality . |
| 25 | It does not in fact follow that a total whiteout will occur at longer exposures , because of non-uniformity in the sensitivity of the optical RAM . |
| 26 | However , despite the initial expressions of fear that this practice could cause problems , it does not in fact seem to have become widespread . |