Example sentences of "it [vb -s] 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Although the distinction is useful and well recognised , it does not of course constrain people 's behaviour . |
6 | ( It does not of course imply that prices are necessarily constant over time . ) |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | As water contains oxygen , it does not in fact prevent the paint from drying anyway ! |
9 | As water contains oxygen , it does not in fact prevent the paint from drying anyway ! |
10 | Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | However , despite the initial expressions of fear that this practice could cause problems , it does not in fact seem to have become widespread . |
16 | And it it does n't without integration you just |
17 | erm It does n't for example necessarily imply that statements about beauty are merely subjective , or are delusory or are soft-headed or Though maybe Ayer would want to say that on another occasion . |
18 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
19 | ‘ It does n't on paper . |