Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers see the Royal couple no longer enjoy each other 's company and reports reveal Diana did not want to go on the trip . |
| 2 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
| 3 | The fact was that he did not want to work on Sunday . |
| 4 | Yesterday , a spokesman , said the company did not want to work on Sundays . |
| 5 | He told thousands of supporters at a rally in Blackburn , Lancs , that the Conservatives did not deserve to win on their economic record , and had run out of ideas for rescuing the country from recession . |
| 6 | Mr Kinnock told thousands of enthusiastic supporters at a rally in Blackburn , Lancs , that the Conservatives did not deserve to win on their economic record , and had run out of ideas for rescuing the country from recession . |
| 7 | Now we did not have to sit on the edge of the bed — a much wider bed — because there were two chairs , and I had my own shower and facilities for making coffee and snacks . |
| 8 | They did not have to take on board the Jewish ceremonial Law . |
| 9 | Jimmy McGregor , a member of the legislative council , said , ‘ If we did not have to depend on China we would be looking at a most marvellous future . ’ |
| 10 | Too young to be hired as a full-blown CI , he was signed up on the spot as a ‘ subsource ’ , a convenient arrangement whereby he was paid by a DEA CI , rather than by the agency itself , so that , in the interests of ‘ deniability ’ , his name did not have to appear on any official payroll records . |
| 11 | So she did not need to go on the offensive and was not required to fight . |
| 12 | Many believed that the United States did not need to intervene on this scale in the international economy . |
| 13 | Belvoir Park Hospital 's spokesman said the Ladies Committee did not wish to comment on the controversy . |
| 14 | . It is significant that Hitler did not dare to speak on January 30 ! |
| 15 | It seemed clear that the Franks were a power in Europe that the Eastern Empire did not dare to challenge on a large scale . |
| 16 | Although these four authors address themselves to rather different problems , and do not appear to agree on a number of issues , their combined views on the importance of soil erosion are more or less consistent , and quite clear — its importance is exaggerated , agricultural technology initiated by both officials and farmers can respond satisfactorily , and the resources at disposal are massive and are constantly being created by technology itself . |
| 17 | I do not intend to intrude on your life , or impinge in any direct manner . |
| 18 | The new owners , Richard Rowlands , a solicitor , and Derota Rees-Lik , do not intend to live on the island but have said they will spend as much time there as possible . |
| 19 | I do not intend to comment on individual cases before the courts . |
| 20 | You are not bothered whether the house is detached or semi-detached , but you do not want to live on an estate . |
| 21 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 22 | The phrase conveys a sense of the desired relationship between elderly people and their relatives , especially their children : they want to be on good terms with them , and to have regular contact with them , but they do not want to rely on them too directly . |
| 23 | I do not want to rely on quotations from Nye Bevan , but he was right when he said that we were a country built on coal . |
| 24 | I do not want to dwell on it ; we know it to be true . |
| 25 | I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht . |
| 26 | I do not want to concentrate on procedural matters , but , as the hon. Gentleman said , it is curious that the Bill has not been introduced by the Government , especially as the Nurses , Midwives and Health Visitors Bill has just completed its Committee stage . |
| 27 | TNC pays far too little attention to issues of progression and continuity at this important point of transition , especially for those who ( for whatever reasons ) have been low attainers at secondary school and do not wish to enrol on A-level courses . |
| 28 | Although I do not wish to dwell on it at this stage I feel I should say something regarding my understanding of Christianity . |
| 29 | But we do not need to rely on actual mistakes in the past . |
| 30 | By which he means people in the power elite mix in the same social circles and do not need to rely on lobbying within political institutions . |