Example sentences of "it [vb past] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | It did not of course necessarily destroy the monarch 's power of choice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It did not of course reach the bowl of scummy water , dirty plastic debris and filthy rags and bits of wood on the balcony . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Perhaps it did not in truth add up to very much . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I knew there was a water leak there but if it had n't with rain that it definitely was a water leak . |