Example sentences of "[modal v] not on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have come to the conclusion that the temples of the idols in England should not on any account be destroyed . |
| 2 | What I find very frightening is the campaign by Sir Thomas Hetherington in particular who erm as reported in the newspapers has said that there are er a handful , 3 or 4 people whom he has singled out , and he says the evidence is prima facie evidence against them , is so overwhelming that the law of England must be radically changed in order to bring a prosecution against them , and , as Lord Shawcroft said , well how , in such circumstances , could such people have a fair trial when we 've had the er Hetherington the former Attorney General saying , in effect , we know these people are guilty , we 're changing the law to prosecute them , and now you members of the jury must n't on any account er think er in er you must judge completely impartially . |
| 3 | Denunciation may not on its own provide a general justification for having a penal system , but it may help provide us with one acceptable prin-ciple of distribution for punishment . |
| 4 | The evidence you found may not on its own be inconsistent with the suicide theory , but just the same , it 's your duty to hand it over and let the police decide if it 's worth following up . ’ |
| 5 | Finally , it should be noted that disclosure of the fact that the broker is acting as principal may not on its own suffice if there exist any other material matters which could affect the customer 's decision whether or not to proceed with the transaction . |
| 6 | The merest blemish on a Rolls Royce might render it unmerchantable whereas it might not on a humbler car . |
| 7 | Time and again he fell in love with young men who had nothing effeminate about them and who , though temporarily involved in a bisexual life , did not share Minton 's inversion and could not on any long-term basis return his love . |
| 8 | Section 33 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 , even if it applies to composite rate tax , is not applicable for a number of reasons , not least that no valid assessment could be made under an invalid regulation , that no assessment was in fact made and that , even if made , the assessment could not on the facts of the present case have been said to be ‘ excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return : ’ section 33(1) . |
| 9 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 10 | The ruler could not on his own initiative build fortresses , hire troops or alter the judicial system . |
| 11 | I , I can remember bits of it now , but I could n't on fucking Thursday , I mean , there 's this bloke in er , they 're they 're doing a banking job , while doing a bank job and he still does n't believe he 's the main |
| 12 | That is why selection for housing is based on housing need not on financial need , that 's the point , that 's why you do it according to housing need , not for money because the money side has been neutralised . |
| 13 | The fact that a wealth tax bore heavily on someone who turned out to lose all his capital would not on an ex ante basis be regarded as indicating a regressive impact , but in terms of measured income ( allowing for the loss ) it might appear that way . |
| 14 | Meade 's paper would not on its own have caused more than a few small ripples in the higher echelons of the civil service . |
| 15 | They would not on any account join hands with Lucifer . |
| 16 | bring into active play all the possible forces , schools and clubs , etc. , to neutralise and overcome the pernicious influences of ‘ blind alley ’ employment , to insure that , however uneducative and useless a juvenile 's job may be from the point of view of the future , he shall not on that account emerge from it unfitted for any other kind of labour . |
| 17 | I wish you would n't on my account . |
| 18 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 19 | And it 's nineteen eighty three so it should be it would n't on the catalogue yet . |
| 20 | Each lurching stride printed I ca n't , I ca n't on her mind . |
| 21 | Er but , Collieries as they became , they did n't acc That was Lancaster , they did n't accept er the old unions , so they erm they belonged Both I ca n't on Friday night I used to the Methodist 's chapel to pay the old union subscription , and to the West to pay 's . |
| 22 | The next one is er got a meeting on it er I think the airlines are going on a very much a co- ordinated thing er I think most people are probably in agreement with this size eight exemption , make a group specific because really the idea when they put this original proposal in about the size of aircraft was to protect things like the and troops that are shall we say and I think most people would go for that line of thinking because as put in there , why the hell should something again on Cambridge when we ca n't on Stansted but it was really designed to protect certain things . |
| 23 | Cos the juniors , remember the juniors ca n't on terrace . |
| 24 | The Alliance Report recognized that the STV " will not on all occasions result in exact proportionality between first-preference votes and seats " . |
| 25 | The Council will not on such an application for readmission review , annul or amend the decision of the Disciplinary Committee which led to the expulsion and which the Council had formally approved . |
| 26 | I wo n't on the way I wo n't on the way back . |
| 27 | I wo n't on the way I wo n't on the way back . |
| 28 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |
| 29 | ‘ [ T ] he state ’ can not on any sensible political theory be restricted to the Crown and the departments of central government ( which are , indeed , part of the Crown in constitutional law ) . |
| 30 | Everyone experiences disturbing life events from time to time , and although they may cause a good deal of psychological distress , they can not on the whole be considered to have a deleterious effect on health . |