Example sentences of "not be [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If previous experience is any guide , politicians can not be relied on to lead that debate . |
| 2 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 3 | Environmental protection can not be tacked on to the end of industrial development . |
| 4 | Beyond the town , the old county boundary is crossed , Caithness being left for Sutherland , both of these ancient counties having now sadly lost their identities in the new-fangled administrative area known as the Highland Region — one hopes that Caithness will for ever remain Caithness and Sutherland Sutherland in the minds of Scotsmen : historical associations should not be trampled on by modern bureaucracy . |
| 5 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 6 | We have not included these qualities in our statements of attainment because they can not be mapped on to levels . |
| 7 | Your details should not be passed on without your permission . |
| 8 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 9 | In Britain , gene transplants like Carly 's have been limited by the ethics committee to operations which produce changes that will not be passed on to future generations — effectively allowing only treatments little different in ethical terms from ordinary organ transplants . |
| 10 | HIV is not contagious — it can not be passed on by ordinary social contact in the same way as colds and flu are . |
| 11 | Consequently , it is not contagious ( it can not be passed on by ordinary social contact ) and is transmitted in four main ways : |
| 12 | It can not be grafted on to an alien stem . |
| 13 | For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language . |
| 14 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 15 | Sex can not be switched on to order within a marriage . |
| 16 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 17 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 18 | → Dealing with your ideas in order , buying a secondhand valve amp to use with your existing combo speaker would not work because of the complex switching required to bypass the amplifiers into dummy loads ( a valve amp can not be left on without the speaker or a dummy load in circuit ) as well as input routing to both amps . |
| 19 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 20 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 21 | The Society is essential to our being , Medau work would not have become established in this country and can not be carried on without it . |
| 22 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |