Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I do not intend to intrude on your life , or impinge in any direct manner . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I do not intend to comment on individual cases before the courts . |
| 5 | You are not bothered whether the house is detached or semi-detached , but you do not want to live on an estate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do not want to dwell on it ; we know it to be true . |
| 10 | And sh excuse me but what I do not want happening on records of achievement as regards cos we are totally honest and I could name a school not too far from us |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although I do not wish to dwell on it at this stage I feel I should say something regarding my understanding of Christianity . |
| 15 | But we do not need to rely on actual mistakes in the past . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In practice , the courts do not like to rely on unreasonableness alone but rather to base the decision on the fact that irrelevant considerations have been taken into account , etc. ( see Bromley London B.C. v. GLC ( H.L. , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | From a subjective viewpoint , these differences do not seem to depend on linguistically-represented concepts , and moreover are of such a general character that it is implausible to ascribe them uniquely to human perceivers . |
| 19 | There are of course classes of preferential and pre-preferential creditors , but I do not propose to expand on that here . |
| 20 | We do not have to rely on the verse which embarrasses Yates ( ‘ the Spirit had not yet been given , because Jesus was not yet glorified , ’ John 7:39 ) for this , though that is unambiguous enough . |
| 21 | ‘ Besides , now that I do not have to stop on the way to Paris for lunch I can go later . |
| 22 | Also , when considering development , it must be stressed that we do not have to depend on an infinite regress . |
| 23 | The aim of the legislation is to ensure that , so far as possible , shopkeepers and shop assistants do not have to work on Sunday : see Stoke-on-Trent City Council v. B. & Q. Plc. [ 1991 ] Ch. 48 , 66 , per Hoffmann J. But the prohibition against Sunday trading has become controversial in modern times . |