Example sentences of "not [verb] [pn reflx] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He applied for a post in the service of the archduke : but Ferdinand was advised by his mother not to burden himself with such ‘ useless creatures who travel around all over the place , like beggars ’ . |
| 2 | While I can not associate myself with some of the language used by the hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) , many people feel that it is high time that the United States modernised its economic relations with Vietnam and started to observe the common action programme agreed between 24 countries in respect of the Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong . |
| 3 | ‘ In the coming stage , we will not suffice ourselves with mere slogans but we will embark on objective and responsible dialogue . ’ |
| 4 | Germany is now paying a price few other countries would have accepted for not providing itself with better citizenship and immigration laws in the calmer years before unification . |
| 5 | A leading figure in the Arab world , sure that the Third World should not align itself with either superpower . |
| 6 | In the poet 's idealized concept of nature man need not bother himself with arduous tasks or boring duties , nature is there to provide for him and nothing more . |
| 7 | The pain which is manifest in all the muscles and sinews of the body … does not express itself with any violence either in the face or in the position as a whole . |
| 8 | Science , as we know , has tremendous potential to change the way we live ; yet it professes not to concern itself with moral issues , insisting upon its own objectivity . |
| 9 | He is quite determined to master the art of the coracle , though as Comptroller of the Queen 's Household he need not concern himself with such trivialities . |
| 10 | Finally , do not concern yourself with patterned fabrics . |
| 11 | The majority of collectors of autograph and manuscript material will not concern themselves with these early periods or with anything much before the sixteenth century . |
| 12 | A graduate of Exeter College , Oxford , Tolkien had read Classical Mods and then done a version of the English course which was rigidly philological , and did not concern itself with post-medieval literature . |
| 13 | It is perhaps as well that the British Library does not concern itself with such phenomena , but the absence of the raw material means , again , that it can not be studied properly at what is the centre of literary culture par excellence . |
| 14 | The EC does not concern itself with national health or education policies . |
| 15 | It does not concern itself with encyclopaedic or ’ world ’ knowledge — that is deemed the province of pragmatics . |
| 16 | Any professional approach that does not concern itself with supporting and facilitating these same processes of growth for people with learning difficulties must be seriously open to question . |
| 17 | You say — and so does Dr. Briant — that the ‘ safe ’ scientists are the ones who do n't concern themselves with ideological issues . |