Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours .
2 Perhaps we tend not to see this year 's household survey as an historical datum because it is the human condition to flatter ourselves that our own lives are outside time , and therefore outside history .
3 However , I do not regard this problem as insuperable .
4 I ought to add , perhaps , that gay men do not regard this film with nothing but sad , solemn recognition — the characteristically gay male urge to mock and undercut what one genuinely and deeply feels , what Dyer brilliantly calls ‘ the knife edge between camp and hurt ’ , can be evidenced by pointing out that one of London 's most crowded and cruisy gay bars is called ‘ Brief Encounter ’ , though one is , alas , unlikely to meet anyone resembling Trevor Howard therein .
5 Reprints of that edition do not extend this period .
6 There remains a strong positive bias in the right-ascension residuals from 1895–1905 , but Standish has traced the majority of these to a single catalogue of the US Naval Office 9-inch transit telescope ( data from two other sources do not show this bias ) ; an observational error such as an incorrect equinox correction is a plausible explanation .
7 The other species do not show this character ( Table 10 , p.338 ) .
8 No I thought to myself you do not deserve this death and the you I was thinking of was not the fish itself but all those people standing on the bank .
9 We do not begrudge this time .
10 Jobs which do not fulfil this purpose must be reorganised so that they do .
11 Special provisions will also ensure that those on modest incomes most of which comes from investments , such as people who have been made redundant , do not pay this 9% on their savings .
12 You 're aware that on this side of the room Ryedale have stated in terms in their proof that they do not perceive this land as being part of the open countryside .
13 In other words , a market economy is an efficient way of producing wealth ; the reason it is more efficient than a planned economy in which prices are not competitive is that prices do not convey this information .
14 Do not answer this letter .
15 In contrast , the enhanced generation of interleukin 1 by inflamed colonic mucosa in patients with inflammatory bowel disease is exclusively because of the production by lamina propria mononuclear cells as epithelial cells do not synthesise this cytokine .
16 I do not intend this list to be exhaustive .
17 For some reason , however , the pachyderms do not fit this picture — both elephants and rhinos exhibit far more complex personalities with much higher intelligence than might be expected for animals with their style of feeding .
18 They do not eat this material but chew it up to form a compost on which they cultivate a fungus .
19 Do not throw this book away .
20 Being abused is the humiliating situation for both men and women so do not endure this punishment .
21 We gave our permission that the women should gather up the dead and give them burial according to the fashion of this people — ‘ t is said they strip the flesh and griddle it for a delicacy beforetimes , but I for one do not give this credence .
22 It is important that we do not give this disease any opportunity to become widely established here . ’
23 Do not disturb this sleep unless there are other indications that the child is not sleeping a peaceful , healing sleep .
24 NOTE — 1* BUDGET CONTENTS POLICIES DO NOT COVER THIS CONTINGENCY .
25 Within this simplified conception , the role of linguistic factors in education is easy to define : some children come to school equipped with an elaborated code which enables them to be successful in class because they can use it to analyse , describe , speculate , and so on ; other children fail , because they do not possess this code .
26 Many other authorities do not sanction this work due to the adverse publicity it can create . ’
27 After what has happened I do not think this girl will be able easily to adjust to a normal teenage existence for some time and I think any order forbidding her to see this man again would not only be unrealistic , but would place an intolerable burden on a young girl who , it seems to me , has had quite enough strain already .
28 I do not think this grouping or group let is yet a class either in itself or for itself and it may never become one .
29 I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical .
30 I do not think this presentation advances the arguments .
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