Example sentences of "[not/n't] begin [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I do not begin to claim the sort of historical breadth of either Brown or Bynum , I do believe that their approach is not only helpful but necessary if we are going , as we must , to use the lives of women before us to encourage us forward . |
| 2 | Without this , one can not begin to grasp the size and complexity of Charles ' achievements — such as the uncanny speed with which he could move troops across great distances . |
| 3 | But until we understand how and why they are such reasons and how they differ from ordinary reasons we will not begin to understand the nature of authority . |
| 4 | For the little boy who had found a family could not begin to understand the anguish he had unwittingly caused to the family who had lost a little boy … |
| 5 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 6 | If we do not begin to address the problem , we shall be doing irreparable damage to our political profession , which I greatly respect . |
| 7 | They know better than anyone that all the badmouthing of men they could manage would not begin to balance the inequality they experience when it comes to the job market — fewer opportunities , low wages , nonexistent child-care facilities and a hopelessly uneven battle to survive if , for example , the father of their children jumps ship and fails to pay any maintenance . |
| 8 | When he talks about appointing 1,000 police officers nationally , does he understand that that means only 1.5 additional police officers per constituency , which does not begin to meet the problem ? |
| 9 | Indeed , they do not begin to face the problem . |
| 10 | Leading and promoting the debate on energy policy that the government wants to stifle , that presents us with just such an opportunity , if we do n't begin to take the fight to the enemy the future is clear . |
| 11 | I had won the scholarship to the grammar school and I could n't begin to describe the joy it gave to Aunt Hettie and Uncle Fred . |
| 12 | But , as one of I T N's southern African correspondents , Mike Hannah reports : ‘ this move by Johannesburg does n't begin to address the root of the problem ; the acute housing shortage for hundreds of thousands of black squatters , working in white areas ’ . |
| 13 | I ca n't begin to imagine the sort of furore that might break out if er judges started to hand out the sort of penalties that they saw fit in particular cases . |