Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the firm will have to make the prescribed disclosure that all or most of the FSA protections do not apply if ( even though it does not have to do so ) it tells a private customer that it is a member of SFA or is otherwise FSA-authorised ; or ( 2 ) It is carried on with or for customers in the UK , but the FSA 's overseas person exemption would have applied if that non-UK office had been a separate person from the UK office ( see page 40 above and also below ) or , presumably , is outside the territorial scope of the FSA in any event ; or ( 3 ) The business is that of an appointed representative of the firm and is not carried on in the UK . |
| 2 | Barbara Lohman of the Points of Light Foundation ( a non-profit organisation set up at the instigation of the White House ) says that today 's volunteers are ‘ not turned on by the martyrdom thing . ’ |
| 3 | All violations are only reported ( not acted on by the system ) , but they must be resolved before the design can be " sealed " . |
| 4 | For another , has the Scottish Tourist Board not cottoned on to the fact that this Sunday sailings issue is good copy . |
| 5 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 6 | Outside contractors are not brought on to the University 's premises except by prior agreement with the University ; |
| 7 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 8 | This was not passed on to the planning committee . |
| 9 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 10 | It was n't turned on by the T V. |
| 11 | Then she wonders why we have n't got on with the work . |
| 12 | Perhaps f just wanted to go back to find out why f had n't got on with the place when everyone else had ! |
| 13 | Other medieval houses that are replicated medieval houses just have n't got on to the textiles in the way that we have . |
| 14 | " Oh do n't get the wrong idea — I was n't driven on to the streets through grief , or nothing like that . |
| 15 | He was glad he had n't gone on to the Reserve after the Armistice , as Tubby had — though , if he had , he would have stayed retired . |