Example sentences of "it [vb -s] not [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has not rituals whatever to deal with distress and grief resulting from a difficult birth or a pregnancy that ends in death .
2 The reforming jurists , on the other hand , saw punishment as a procedure for requalifying individuals as subjects , as juridical subjects ; it uses not marks , but signs , coded sets of representations , which would be given the most rapid circulation and the most general acceptance possible by citizens witnessing the scene of punishment .
3 ‘ No , it splutters not burns .
4 The problem with critical doubt is that it is not doubtful enough : it does not subject itself to its own criteria .
5 It does not proposals currently under discussion make it clear that advisory influence on individual careers will remain highly significant ( Leeds City Council 1991c ) .
6 It does not debar citizens of the Republic of Ireland or of the Commonwealth from membership and election of these is not unknown .
7 It does not sooth , it does n't blend in : this is what muzak in the elevators of Hell would sound like .
8 It does not sooth , it does n't blend in : this is what muzak in the elevators of Hell would sound like .
9 That it does not means that this theory , like the other versions of interference theory already discussed , needs to include some further process ( such as a loss of associability ) to explain the results .
10 It is n't quite on a par with sending Norman Wisdom to take Khartoum , but it does not embolden the spirit with a warm glow of expectation .
11 It does not distress the fish , and it is eating normally .
12 But although it was Tip 's and Arnold 's maiden success , it does not rate as highly with either of them as the victory at Troon the following year .
13 For another , it does not hand out new cars as it used to .
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