Example sentences of "not go on [v-ing] " 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 | When you think that the judge has got your point , do not go on repeating it . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Comrade Vajda , ’ he said , ‘ you can not go on studying two imperialistic languages . |
| 10 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 11 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Anxiety symptoms do not go on increasing indefinitely . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Alice could not go on playing . |
| 15 | But he said : ‘ We need not go on confirming that day after day . |
| 16 | Of course , I love the theatre or I would not go on doing it . ’ |