Example sentences of "therefore [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore I do not see why tonight I might not occasionally , if the argument should lead that way , be guilty of saying in office some of the things which I have said out of office .
2 Therefore I do not take kindly to slander that Pink Floyd or even Mike Oldfield are unwelcome icons .
3 I know he is sick , but I do not know how sick , and therefore I do not know what to do .
4 As this turns up later in the memoir , I need only report that , out of dissatisfaction , I scrapped the manuscript more than once , and therefore I did not show it to Eliot just then .
5 There are some things that God has not told us , and therefore we do not know .
6 We believe that the world is passing through a period of considerable instability and therefore we do not propose further reductions in our defence forces .
7 Therefore they do not apply to pledges .
8 The Government agree with the Committee ( Nathan ) that there is no reason to change the present content of charity and therefore they do not propose that a fresh statutory definition should be enacted . ’
9 Therefore they do not learn to solve their own problems through an awareness of the process of spirit .
10 In the 1980s , among an entire group of paediatric anaesthetists , a substantial fraction believed that newborn children did not feel pain and therefore they did not give analgesics to newborn babies .
11 What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’
12 However , their deployment is justified in nuclear ideology , not as a potential self-defence second-strike force , but on the basis that they will never have to be used , since their possession alone deters a potential enemy , and therefore it does not constitute a threat to use illegal weapons .
13 Therefore it does not look as though the explanation of the action clients ' failure to be supported at home for longer than control samples is due to their more problematic home care potential ( at least as far as the characteristics described above are concerned ) .
14 Therefore it does not seem to be necessary to encourage people who suffer from Chemical Dependency also to give up cigarette smoking ( except on grounds of general health ) for fear that it will spark off the compulsion to return to use of the original addictive drug of choice .
15 But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband .
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