Example sentences of "[not/n't] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You did not go on ahead ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | That will not go on much longer . |
| 5 | We can not go on indefinitely . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The talks can not go on indefinitely if the IRA go on killing and bombing and Mr Adams does n't come out to signal any opposition to them . ’ |
| 7 | Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without someone getting hurt . |
| 8 | Of course , employers ' sick pay does not go on indefinitely . |
| 9 | The present idiotic trends can not go on forever , and there could soon be drastic changes . |
| 10 | However , this can not go on forever : there comes a stage when nuclear fusion to produce yet heavier elements requires energy , rather than producing it . |
| 11 | However , his co-chairman Lord Owen , appointed by the European Community , warned that peace talks could not go on forever , saying there would come a time when action had to be taken by the international community . |
| 12 | ‘ I might not go just yet … ’ |
| 13 | Inquests and births do not go well together . |
| 14 | The first is that the recession they have caused and which so nearly ditched them will not go away automatically . |
| 15 | ’ , ‘ Gently , gently , the floor … ’ ) , seeing that all was well I did not go right in or disturb the piles of old magazines , wormy furniture , books , and china lying there ; after all , they belonged to the house . |
| 16 | I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The pencil could not go fast enough over the paper , so quickly changed the scenes . ’ |
| 18 | He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests . |
| 20 | All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough . |
| 21 | In the more remote localities Bolshevik officials , desperate for transport facilities , ‘ ignored NEP and all its works , and commandeered right and left as if military Communism [ War Communism ] was still pure and undefiled ’ , yet another indication that military methods did not go completely out of fashion with the advent of NEP . |
| 22 | I accept the valuable role played by the Minister , but does he accept that , although sponsorship is valuable , even more important is the fact that institutions such as the Royal Opera House can not go much further in the sponsorship race and will require funding ? |
| 23 | It would make us a lot safer and cars may not go as fast . |
| 24 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 25 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 26 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 27 | One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income . |
| 28 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 29 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 30 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |