Example sentences of "it [verb] not in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps it did not in truth add up to very much . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As water contains oxygen , it does not in fact prevent the paint from drying anyway ! |
| 10 | As water contains oxygen , it does not in fact prevent the paint from drying anyway ! |
| 11 | Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , despite the initial expressions of fear that this practice could cause problems , it does not in fact seem to have become widespread . |