Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] with the " in BNC.

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1 It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect .
2 Ravel 's Chansons madecasses , though the music sweats with sultry southern heat , does not bathe one with the swirling sounds of his orchestral timbres .
3 ‘ People should not read too much into every statement , but I now need to know what everybody is thinking , and I will not discuss anything with the media until I have spoken to the necessary people . ’
4 I can not dignify him with the name of " physician " … should send to their doom many poor souls who might , with the proper treatment , recover ! "
5 Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently .
6 Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation .
7 A people may or may not identify itself with the dominant culture .
8 ‘ Moreover , this class or fraction in charge of the state may or may not identify itself with the ruling class or fraction in the political scene ’ ( Poulantzas 1973 , p. 335 ) .
9 The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul .
10 He could not reconcile it with the images he had preserved .
11 I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required .
12 The past by its nature is only indirectly available to us ; we can not enter it with the same immediacy as the present .
13 A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique .
14 This too is research , even though we may not honour it with the name .
15 And while nobody wanted precisely to abandon the Fidchell which everybody enjoyed so much , there was really no reason why they could not play it with the Gnomes tonight and save Fenella for tomorrow , or even the day after .
16 ‘ We have spent thousands of pounds on a survey that does not supply us with the basic information that we need , ’ she said .
17 Those who could not console themselves with the thought of world-wide respect for their domestically heartily despised ruler were at least supposed to despair when they heard Western statesmen pour flattery over Ceauşescu .
18 Do not confuse it with the head , for the latter can be struck harder and still score .
19 Do not confuse it with the Beta-Zeta pair , which is more widely separated ; Zeta is of magnitude 4.7 .
20 The chief stars , Alpha ( 3.9 ) , Delta ( 4.5 ) and Gamma ( 4.7 ) form a triangle ; do not confuse it with the smaller , fainter triangle formed by Alpha , Beta and 9 Equulei .
21 She certainly did not blend it with the crowd .
22 The laissez-faire leader also made suggestions , but was more ‘ standoffish ’ and did not involve himself with the boy 's welfare , nor did he join in the group activities , so that the boys were effectively left to do what they wanted by themselves .
23 But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again .
24 He did not concern himself with the business of creating such a society , only with the description of what it ought to be like : the actual propositions in the book are not to be taken literally , in other words , since he was offering only the ideal model of a better civilization .
25 You and your staff will maintain the well-established convention whereby ministers do not concern themselves with the detailed information which may be obtained by the Security Service in particular cases , but are furnished with such information only as may be necessary for the determination of any issue on which guidance is sought .
26 All this will be perfectly satisfactory to those who are willing to stop their analysis of conditioning at this level and who do not concern themselves with the detailed mechanisms that underlie the subject , s sensitivity to these various correlations .
27 The work of Piaget ( 1950 ) and Chomsky ( 1957 ) is essentially about thinking and language or psycholinguistics , but these authors did not concern themselves with the level of problem which arises when , for example , a physiologist and a psychologist attempt to exchange mutually supportive ideas .
28 We need not concern ourselves with the views expressed in newspapers which are wholly controlled by the state in totalitarian societies .
29 We need not concern ourselves with the details of Kant 's theory of Transcendental Ideas .
30 The population census does not start from sociological theory and does not concern itself with the formulation of explicit hypotheses .
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