Example sentences of "[modal v] not go on " in BNC.
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1 | Then , properly managed , perhaps using birth control instead of the crude culls practised by Zimbabwe and its friends , there is no reason why elephants should not go on producing ‘ found ’ ivory ( tusks picked up after natural mortality ) and tourist revenue for ever . |
2 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
3 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
4 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
5 | To avoid boredom one activity should not go on for too long , so always have a variety of activities ready . |
6 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
7 | It may or may not go on to say " produced in conjunction with brand X or company Y " . |
8 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
9 | While the church dominated governing body of King 's College , London , did not object to Lyell 's geology , it sacked the theologian F. D. Maurice for suggesting that the indescribable torture of the damned might not go on for ever . |
10 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
11 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
12 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
13 | Mr Kinnock could not go on ‘ inflicting his anger on the people of Hong Kong ’ . |
14 | Then , at a certain moment , I just could not go on with that any longer . |
15 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
16 | He was a big fit man but he realised he could not go on much longer , and his iron resolve began to melt in the face of the powers of nature surrounding him . |
17 | Alice could not go on playing . |
18 | The same realization came to the King , pushed towards his precipice by Hardinge harshly telling him that he could not go on without a decision . |
19 | But it could not go on for ever , both of them knew that . |
20 | ‘ The workload for both Barry Newbery and myself was tremendous , we both felt we could not go on much longer , and suggested that a third Designer be included on the team . ’ |
21 | I can not … ’ but he could not go on because his voice was shaking with such rage . |
22 | She could not go on , and Ernest 's face fell . |
23 | Florrie could not go on . |
24 | The self-destruction of one partner meant that the games could not go on . |
25 | She took one step forward , then realized she could not go on . |
26 | But in 1869 Uncle Elias , who belonged to this secret group , suddenly left America with all their papers , and so the group could not go on . |
27 | I felt as if I could not go on . |
28 | This of course could not go on and she had no intention of staying . |
29 | He could not go on . |
30 | She too had had a call this day , and finally had told Mr Blaney in the shop that she was going , that she was unwell , could not go on . |