Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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31 | This , he believes , is what has made Unisys Corp ‘ the most profitable computer company in the world ’ — since the merger of Univac and Burroughs , it has not only kept headcount low , but also used the profits generated from mainframe sales to develop portable software applications . |
32 | ‘ But it has not only suffered when he is playing — his whole confidence in life has been affected . |
33 | Since I repotted it this spring into a generous-sized pot , it has not only burgeoned but I 've also found it much easier to keep the compost just nicely moist . |
34 | It has not only failed in this , it has opened up a potential new division between private practice and employed lawyers . |
35 | The last few years have been stressful for teacher education , for it has not only experienced the constant need for self- defence of higher education generally , but also special pressures from the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) , set up in 1984 , and the new funding arrangements for in-service education started in 1986 ( which effectively wiped out the source of student funding for most full-time award-bearing courses ) . |
36 | It is in this rarefied atmosphere that IBM may find the key to once again making itself the preferred partner of big business — a role that it has not recently played to sufficiently enthusiastic reviews . |
37 | This indicates that although it is very scared it has not entirely lost its aggression . |
38 | It has not sufficiently emphasised that the Church itself is in the process of becoming and through its disobedience can present a distorted or even completely erroneous picture of the Christian life . |
39 | As such , it has not hitherto constituted a particularly significant form of protest either numerically or politically . |
40 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
41 | That threat has now diminished , although it has not totally disappeared . |
42 | The wood fibres are blown apart , but remain glued together at many individual points by the set resin , or connected by viscous strings of it if it has not quite set . |
43 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
44 | So they choose to contend that it has not really happened : and in so choosing raise a timely question about the nature of political belief . |
45 | ‘ Even in industry it has not always proved possible to cost training effectively … |
46 | On the other hand , such bodies are , of course , acting to further the public interest , and it has not always proved easy to strike the right balance between independence and public accountability . |
47 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |
48 | CAPTAIN Kirk finally makes peace with the Klingons , albeit unwillingly … it 's the end of an era … although considering it takes place four hundred years in the future , it has n't even begun yet . |
49 | When it has n't even started — this phoney war . ’ |
50 | It has n't even got a proper floor . |
51 | Are you sure it has n't just run out of petrol ? ’ |
52 | Tom Shone , writing in the Sunday Times , was also struck far from dumb by Mr Meades ' novel : ‘ This novel bristles , like a Swiss army knife , with an array of pre-emptive critical barbs , with the result that there 's no abuse you can hurl at it which it has n't already hurled at itself . |
53 | Men will say ‘ I love you ’ to get women into bed with them ; women will say ‘ I love you ’ to get men into marriage with them ; both will say ‘ I love you ’ to keep fear at bay , to convince themselves of the deed by the word , to assure themselves that the promised condition has arrived , to deceive themselves that it has n't yet gone away . |
54 | Risky , certainly ; but it has n't yet failed to get the class — and the child concerned — to argue strongly that while there 's life there 's hope ! |
55 | As a symphony , it has n't much benefited from the period instrument revolution — rather the reverse , in fact . |
56 | The WHOLE feeling is Spring is about to burst forth but it has n't quite done so . |
57 | But it has n't quite clicked . |
58 | At the same time , but separately , a Unix kernel with multi-level security enhancements , SVR4.0 MLS , was re-worked to comply with the US government Orange Book B2 security requirement — with B3 extensions — emerging as SVR4.1 ES ( though it has n't really gone out to end users yet ) . |
59 | It has n't really worried me , though . |
60 | But it has n't really bitten into the issue of how we can control and operate and exploit the total environment . |