Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theory Y , however , depends on mature individuals ; maturity , given the influence of group psychology etc , does not exist sufficiently on the shop floor to be practicable in its extreme form . |
| 2 | Alright , you not got far on this |
| 3 | Third rate ‘ IN the third ( division ) Southend have no problems scoring at home , but Sunderland were desperately unlucky not to go ahead on the half hour ’ |
| 4 | I left instructions he was not to go home on his own . |
| 5 | Limits of Amounts payable under this Section 2(a) is amended to read as follows : all items not listed individually on your latest schedule-maximum amount payable for each item will not exceed $1,000 . |
| 6 | Wordsworth did not comment much on these matters in the first edition of his Guide but they are clearly set out in the second edition ( 1820 ) . |
| 7 | The Education Department would not comment directly on the court case but said it would be the responsibility of head teachers and school governors to see that tests went ahead as planned . |
| 8 | We do not comment further on them , beyond the fact that they are available for use . |
| 9 | ( c ) South Metropolitan cars must not remain unnecessarily on Corporation tracks . |
| 10 | While the home market may be happy with this it does mean more potential confusion , since a weapon could be an antique or not depending purely on the country in which it finds itself ! |
| 11 | Members are encouraged to balance these and not concentrate only on ‘ events ’ . |
| 12 | This new interest has not relied simply on a moral redefinition of ‘ crime ’ to draw attention to analogous , but uncriminalised , activities of the ruling class ( although that has been part of it ) . |
| 13 | Unlike both the previous accounts , Bottoms does not concentrate exclusively on prisons . |
| 14 | They can not concentrate wholly on matters put before them by civil servants because they have to deal with parliamentary duties , party business and constituency cases . |
| 15 | These notes are designed to ensure that project appraisal does not concentrate solely on costs but gives priority to the objectives of the service . |
| 16 | It is clear that he can not object solely on the ground of the freedom of the individual or because that particular doctor usually examines for insurance companies . |
| 17 | What I say is , if they want to live here they should live like us , not sleep outside on that mountain like animals . |
| 18 | When you fit the collar , you must make sure that it is not pressing tightly on the neck , as this will be uncomfortable for the dog . |
| 19 | If the ray focus does not fall exactly on the film , the image will be blurred . |
| 20 | The smoke will not fall exclusively on your garden merely because you alone did not pay up . |
| 21 | Children and adults come to learn and face up to the facts of caring and sharing on the principal that we can not survive alone on Earth — we must share it with all the other animals and plants . |
| 22 | ‘ That sounds a responsible attitude , ’ Gina suggested gently , deciding not to comment unfavourably on her sister 's naïve comment about marriage being the inevitable consequence of pregnancy . |
| 23 | Baldwin could not retreat again on the subsidy , and the prospect of finding a solution without it was dismal . |
| 24 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 25 | In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions . |
| 26 | No matter how familiar with literary works you become , you can not focus equally on all parts of a text ( particularly a long text , such as a novel ) : so you need to decide which parts of it are most worth reading closely and writing about . |
| 27 | Smith suggests that ‘ the concept of policy denotes … deliberate choice of action or inaction , rather than the effects of interrelating forces ’ : he emphasizes ‘ inaction ’ and reminds us that ‘ attention should not focus exclusively on decisions which produce change , but must also be sensitive to those which resist change and are difficult to observe because they are not represented in the policy-making process by legislative enactment ’ . |
| 28 | The organization 's small Swiss-based secretariat and new secretary general , Izgrev Topkov of Bulgaria , urged that public attention should not focus exclusively on elephants and other " charismatic megafauna " . |
| 29 | Whilst the White Paper acknowledges that local policy objectives and resources must be a key context in planning and delivery services , the government appears to be clear that at the point of assessment , decisions must be needs-based and ‘ should not focus only on the user 's suitability for a particular existing scheme ’ ( DoH , 1989b , p. 18 ) . |
| 30 | It should be noted that the study just described did not focus especially on schizophrenia , the kinds of mental illness observed in the individuals surveyed covering a number of diagnostic categories , albeit mostly ones related in one or another to psychosis and probably reflecting a similar underlying disposition . |