Example sentences of "n't it [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , when you think about it properly , Johnny , does n't it just blow your mind ? ’ |
| 2 | It was cut low across the top and high above the thighs , and for a moment Lucy was stopped short by the thought that Jesus , it looked hell to wear , but would n't it just kill 'em on the disco floor back home ? |
| 3 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 4 | ‘ Does n't it also sound familiar ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If — as you seem to think — I 'm not — exclusive , then does n't it also figure that experience might have taught me discernment , selectivity ? |
| 6 | Does n't it rather vitiate the nature of Cabinet government , though , if a decision , like the one to remove all exchange control , a very fundamental one for any economy , is in fact worked up , although it goes to full Cabinet in the end , in such a body ? |
| 7 | If you did n't think of mentioning this caller to your wife , did n't it even occur to you to mention it to us when you heard what had happened ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But if you 're so over-conscientious , does n't it ever bother you about letting others look after him , that they might not do it nearly as well as you ? ’ |
| 9 | Does n't it ever strike you as faintly ludicrous — the pursuit of happiness by a species that is less equipped for it than anything in nature ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Wo n't it ever stop ? ’ said Ruth . |
| 11 | But does n't does n't it often work out though that the people who erm need more training , often are the ones that have resisted going on training in the past . |
| 12 | Might n't it merely give rise to a new , psychologistic , feminist reductionism ? |
| 13 | No , but does n't it always go ? |
| 14 | ( ‘ For does n't it always come back ? ’ demanded Bith . |