Example sentences of "not go on [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since we can not go on struggling with one another indefinitely , Hegel says that one must submit to the other . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Good advice based on sound theory , perhaps , but the writer does not go on to say how this separating might be accomplished ! |
| 6 | to a particular institution but who do not go on to enrol there or anywhere else ( we have called them ‘ non-enrollers ’ ) |
| 7 | These migrants differed in some important respects from the 46% of applicants who were non–enrollers , ( those who applied to a particular institution but did not go on to enrol anywhere ) . |
| 8 | When you think that the judge has got your point , do not go on repeating it . |
| 9 | I will not go on to examine by the same criteria the other manifestations of The Thing , such as the anti-apartheid demonstrations , in which open breach of the law was widely condoned and encouraged by the organs of public opinion . |
| 10 | After all , amongst the girls who do not obtain the top 16+ grades , or who do not go on to do A level mathematics , are some very able pupils . |
| 11 | Those students who do not go on to do postgraduate degrees in Social Anthropology may enter a wide range of occupations and professions , both nationally and internationally . |
| 12 | She did not go on to explain that to remove anything would be wrong as far as she was concerned . |
| 13 | Generally , the cuckoo will not go on to take more than one egg , for , presumably , while the host tolerates the substitution or addition of an egg , it wo n't tolerate the loss of one . |
| 14 | It would seem that there is a demand for such assistance as 1 in 5 of all applicants said that they did not go on to take the course because of financial difficulties . |
| 15 | Her parents refused consent for an operation to remove the obstruction , although there were no grounds to suppose that if the outcome of the operation was successful , Alexandra would not go on to enjoy a life of some longevity . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Males do not go on to construct further nests as polygynous weavers of more productive lands do . |
| 19 | Secondly , some are concerned that they can not go on plundering our planet without costs escalating , and thirdly others realize that international laws are here to stay , so they may as well accept them . |
| 20 | ‘ Comrade Vajda , ’ he said , ‘ you can not go on studying two imperialistic languages . |
| 21 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 22 | Engels ( 1874 ) , in an essay on authority directed against the anarchists , commented upon violent political revolutions that ‘ a revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is ’ , but he did not go on to consider whether the authoritarianism of an armed revolutionary struggle might not subsequently become firmly entrenched in the practices of a post-revolutionary government ; and he could not foresee that the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ( a phrase which he and Marx occasionally used in order to refer to the political dominance of the working class , conceived as the vast majority of the population , in the initial phase of socialist society ) would be transformed into a plain dictatorship and a reign of terror , turned against the people themselves . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 25 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 26 | Anxiety symptoms do not go on increasing indefinitely . |
| 27 | Whether one defines a conductance or introduces a friction term they are just two different ways of expressing the empirical fact that the electrons ' velocity does not go on increasing indefinitely in response to a driving electric field . |
| 28 | Alice could not go on playing . |
| 29 | But he said : ‘ We need not go on confirming that day after day . |
| 30 | Of course , I love the theatre or I would not go on doing it . ’ |