Example sentences of "do not go on [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not go on to explain that to remove anything would be wrong as far as she was concerned . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | This is because the revolution in East Germany after 1945 changed the structures of power and ownership — but did not go on to change the structure of social relationships . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men . |
| 8 | When you think that the judge has got your point , do not go on repeating it . |
| 9 | to a particular institution but who do not go on to enrol there or anywhere else ( we have called them ‘ non-enrollers ’ ) |
| 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 | Anxiety symptoms do not go on increasing indefinitely . |
| 13 | Males do not go on to construct further nests as polygynous weavers of more productive lands do . |
| 14 | So you did n't go on loving him ? |
| 15 | His stepson , Simon , a tall stockbroker , guffawed for no obvious reason and kicked the chin of a sleeping dog off a pile of Thomas 's books , although he did n't go on to pick up any of the spilled books . |
| 16 | On the plus side , would n't it be nice if the clients were helped to look ahead and did n't go on lurching from legal hitch to last-minute legal hitch ? |
| 17 | I I think that that 's really the message which I 'm quite sure er the the economic secretary has got er and I do apologise if I have laboured the point but I will be doing so until we can have a situation where we do n't go on passing more rules and regulations but in fact all the legislation coming to the house is purely repealing legislation so we do n't actually need any fresh legislation , we just repeal what in fact er we have introduced er because it is it is er not helpful to the prosperity of this country . |
| 18 | They do n't go on to explore the other stitches that their machine can do . |
| 19 | Mr Angus had said to me à propos Meehan , ‘ Guilty men when they reach prison do n't go on insisting on their innocence . ’ |
| 20 | Though I hope we do n't go on having family Christmases . |
| 21 | I will be extremely disappointed if we do n't go on winning . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Good advice based on sound theory , perhaps , but the writer does not go on to say how this separating might be accomplished ! |
| 24 | 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 . |