Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 2 | This is a situation where you can not knock on a door and hope to be immediately granted the favours you seek . |
| 3 | But Vera did not wait on a Home Office ruling . |
| 4 | Her endless list of extras include a helipad on the boatdeck and several other features that one would not expect on a boat of her size . |
| 5 | The discussion here will be confined to self-interested goals ; consideration of ‘ socially responsible ’ motives will be deferred until Chapter 9 , which will conclude that sacrificing profits for socially responsible ends does not occur on a scale sufficient to raise serious doubts about the commitment of managers to profitability ( or whatever other , self-interested goals may predominate ) . |
| 6 | MC do not work on a contingency fee basis . |
| 7 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |
| 8 | Sadly for Kylie though , whether or not she got the most important role she had yet auditioned for did not depend on a man already convinced of her potential . |
| 9 | Meanwhile other chemists have tried to fashion totally synthetic models that do not depend on a porphyrin ligand . |
| 10 | An IR system based on ASKs would not depend on a user 's query formulation but would attempt to describe the ASK and thus " construct " an image of user needs . |
| 11 | As was stated at the beginning of the chapter , Christianity does not depend on a belief that Jesus worked miracles . |
| 12 | It is not necessary for the plaintiff to owe the defendant a duty of care : Although contributory negligence does not depend on a duty of care , it does depend on foreseeability . |
| 13 | The idea that companies should be viewed as social enterprises does not depend on a theory specifically about the nature of the corporate form , but , as has been mentioned , on a theory about the circumstances in which power may legitimately be held . |
| 14 | For example , what might apply erm on a one year old vehicle that 's done ten thousand miles , might not apply on a vehicle that 's done a hundred thousand miles and is ten years old . |
| 15 | When your feet are tired , why not hop on a water bus , or vaporetto . |
| 16 | There are occasions when a councillor should not serve on a committee . |
| 17 | One must distinguish from the cases of the imaginary form where price does not rest on a value correlation . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on its true construction section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 did not confer on a minor who had attained the age of 16 an absolute right to determine whether or not he received medical treatment but enabled him , for the limited purpose of protecting his medical practitioner from prosecution or from any claim in trespass , to give consent to such treatment as effectively as if he were an adult ; that , although a minor of any age who had sufficient maturity might consent to treatment , his refusal to give consent could not overrule consent given by the court ; that in exercising its inherent jurisdiction the court would take particular account of the minor 's wishes , the importance of which increased with his age and maturity , but would override them where his best interests so required ; and that , having regard to the nature of W. 's illness and to the serious deterioration in her condition , her best interests required the court to direct her immediate transfer to and treatment at the new unit without her consent ( post , pp. 765G — 766A , H — 767C , 768F–G , 769G–H , 770B–D , 772A–C , D–E , 774C–D , 775H — 776A , E–F , 777F–G , 779A , 780B–E , G–H , 781B–E , H — 782A ) . |
| 19 | You can not walk on a cloud ! " |
| 20 | The Secretary of State can not interfere on a parent 's behalf over a curricular matter until the complaint has been pursued via the local complaints machinery . |
| 21 | She did not put on a tape of Vivaldi . |
| 22 | Attlee and his ministers , despite being a radically intentioned government , did not embark on a reform of the Civil Service because they knew the wartime machine personally and liked what they saw . |
| 23 | The Commons could not agree on a scheme and several were inserted in the Bill by a temporary majority of one day and then removed by another majority later . |
| 24 | In London , funding of the London Wildlife Trust is in jeopardy because the 33 boroughs represented on the grants committee can not agree on a budget . |
| 25 | Now that Hunt 's committee has ducked all the technical issues and government ministers can not agree on a policy , officials inside the Department of Industry are trying to decide how tightly the government should control the type of cable system laid , what technology to recommend and who should be allowed to do what . |
| 26 | Brooke announced that he was giving up his effort to revive the talks when the parties could not agree on a format to proceed in the context of the forthcoming UK general election ( due to be held by July ) . |
| 27 | Thus in Hartog v Colin and Shields [ 1939 ] 3 All ER 566 , it was held that the plaintiff could not sue on a contract for the sale of hare skins at so much per pound when he knew that the offeror really meant to sell at that price per piece . |
| 28 | However , the industry wo n't stay on a plateau and there is still much to be done in improving the processes in engineering as well as chemical terms . |
| 29 | This one wo n't stay on a model track in the back garden , it 's being exported to Holland to pull passengers round a theme park , but the builder would be delighted to do it again . |
| 30 | You ca n't not-be on a boat . |