Example sentences of "not 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 | I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The pencil could not go fast enough over the paper , so quickly changed the scenes . ’ |
| 17 | He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | It would make us a lot safer and cars may not go as fast . |
| 22 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 : |
| 29 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 30 | The majority of the National Executive did not go as far as Marchbanks but warned several of the leading participants in the Petition campaign that disciplinary action would be taken against them ( as against Cripps ) if they continued in their support for it . |