Example sentences of "can not go [adv] " in BNC.

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1 However , the ordinary member of the public can not go around arresting cyclists and homeless persons and so on under section 25 .
2 The shadow cabinet elections can not go ahead until the new party leadership is in place .
3 The case can not go ahead without your driving licence .
4 Is he also aware that British Steel can not go ahead with its plans for building a new plate mill on Teesside because of the depth of the recession into which the Government have plunged the country ?
5 ‘ It 's a case at the moment that I can not go ahead with the case because I can not afford £700 , ’ said Barbara .
6 The main purpose of charity events is to raise money for them and rightly so , but it can not go amiss if our reputation is enhanced in the process .
7 A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation .
8 Yesterday , Mr Baron said that strict justice demanded that ‘ the European Parliament can not go on being regarded as a marginal institution , able only to speak but not to take decisions ’ .
9 I am ill , I can not go on . ’
10 ‘ Comrade Vajda , ’ he said , ‘ you can not go on studying two imperialistic languages .
11 The present idiotic trends can not go on forever , and there could soon be drastic changes .
12 Like a grow-bag , however , they can not go on producing their rich harvests of vegetable crops such as celery and carrots for ever , since once the peat has all wasted away , poor acid subsoils , especially clays , are often all that remain beneath .
13 However , the only things which are spelt out are that development can not go on without them , the fact that new skills will be introduced and the fact that incomers might form a catalyst for the rejuvenation of local voluntary groups .
14 Limited interests led to fewer social contacts ( one can not go on and on talking about nothing ) , and there was no doubt that her aural memory-bank was well in the red .
15 It is obvious that things can not go on as they are .
16 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 .
17 After all , in a gruelling sport like wrestling you can not go on for ever . ’
18 We can not go on indefinitely . ’
19 Clearly this can not go on ; hence the reason the union , almost as soon as the 12-club leagues are in place , is wondering whether and how to reduce them again .
20 We can not go on like this , Dr Bissett . ’
21 Try telling bloody Downing Street ‘ we can not go on like this ’ . ’
22 ‘ I have to say it again , Dr Bissett , we can not go on like this . ’
23 Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 .
24 I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad .
25 Since we can not go on struggling with one another indefinitely , Hegel says that one must submit to the other .
26 From then on she came to the surface more ; it was n't long before she said to him , ‘ This can not go on , have n't you anything better to do than being my chauffeur all day ? ’
27 Thus a believer begins to ‘ keep God 's word ’ or ‘ walk as Christ walked ’ ( 2:5,6 ) : ‘ he does not go on sinning , because God 's seed remains in him , and he can not go on sinning , because he is born of God ’ ( 3:9 ) .
28 ‘ I can not go on , Master ! ’
29 We can not go on like that .
30 ‘ 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 . ’
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