Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can find expression in ‘ I must get him to make a will before he dies ’ — a basic desire to get things sorted out — and may extend to attempts to resolve family quarrels , an anxiety that the sun should not in this case go down fur ever on wrath . |
| 2 | Moreover , he had written it on pages that he could not at this moment tear up into big pieces and then into smaller pieces . |
| 3 | But they could not at this point publicly repudiate him . |
| 4 | It will be clear that human religion need not in this sense be historical . |
| 5 | Adams stated that he intended to continue his recent discussions with some Protestants in Northern Ireland but would not at this time involve leaders of the two principal Unionist parties . |
| 6 | Legal labels will not in this instance provide a ready-made answer ; they can only serve as the repository for the conclusion reached from a particular system of political thought . |
| 7 | They will not in this way learn to control those impulses which lead them to transgress . |
| 8 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 9 | But we can not in this case take the flow of newly issued bills , or even the net flow ( new issues minus redemptions ) as the supply and learn anything useful from it about the operation of the market . |
| 10 | Now it might be argued that the resultant sense of dog here is caused by contextual modulation of the general sense : dog can not in this context refer to females if logical consistency is to be preserved , which leaves only males as possible referents . |