Example sentences of "not [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | Although one bed looks much like another , it 's the one piece of furniture not to economise on . |
| 3 | As well as lines , Sumitomo had to install filters at each end of the lines to check that traffic that ought to be kept on the LAN does not disappear on to the WAN . |
| 4 | That er goes on in relation to er criminal matters again and er er paragraph three hundred and thi , thirty three forty one er it picks up the subject of expert testament , namely er science , art , trade , technical terms , handwriting , foreign law er the ensuing pages in fact deal with that and then at paragraph thirty two fifty one er in the er section of subjects which experts may not testify on . |
| 5 | Certain restrictions on competition are allowed in co-operative R&D ventures , including an obligation not to carry on independent R&D in the same field as the cooperative venture ( or to enter into R&D agreements with third parties in the R&D field assigned to the joint venture ) , and the inclusion of limited territorial protection clauses restricting some of the production and marketing activities of other participants . |
| 6 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 7 | In that case there was an agreement by the defendant with his employer , a tailor , not to carry on " any business whatsoever " for a period of two years within a certain area . |
| 8 | Ah is the band not joined on ? |
| 9 | " It 's gone It 's not hanging on the peg . |
| 10 | The hardest thing , he wrote , is not to go on and on . |
| 11 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 12 | This vision might not always be met but that was no excuse not to go on trying . |
| 13 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 14 | Once you begin lying , it is hard not to go on because it is impossible to explain why you lied in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you wish not to go on ? ’ |
| 16 | Trying to get them not to go on with all this looking and looking , seeing and seeing … |
| 17 | Arriving at Halling he was warned not to go on to Rochester as there was danger of his being captured on the road . |
| 18 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 19 | So it seemed sensible not to go on , ’ said Sir Ranulph . |
| 20 | So , and the person who 's speaking decides not to go on , so perhaps the conversation has stopped . |
| 21 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 22 | and he 's not catching on and I 'll just |
| 23 | Secondly , in dry summers the L3 are retained within the crusted faecal pat and can not migrate on to the pasture until sufficient rainfall occurs to moisten the pat . |
| 24 | ‘ You are not walking on to the stage at the Shield , or any theatre in which I have influence , again . |
| 25 | Why not come on down , five thirty p.m . |
| 26 | When not banging on about the sins of Vin Garbutt , the shaggy-haired Teesside warbler responsible for Little Innocents and other anti-abortion songs , certain feminist folkies have taken to conducting vigilante patrols through Folk Roots magazine in search of new sources of offence . |
| 27 | The modern habit of Oxford dons ' merely coming into their colleges to teach , and perhaps lunch , before cycling or driving home to their wives and children had not caught on . |
| 28 | But HDTV has not caught on . |
| 29 | Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe . |
| 30 | By the end of the 1920's Miss Lintorn-Orman 's brand of Fascism had not caught on and the Bolshevik revolution in England , which it had been formed to combat , had ceased to be an event worth waiting for . |