Example sentences of "did not pay " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insurance company did not pay out because he had failed to mention when renewing his policy that he had been seriously ill . |
| 2 | In the first criticism of Nigel Lawson from the floor , Rupert Blum , an energy economist from Leominster , argued that a base rate of 15 per cent , plus the lenders ' mark up , meant energy conservation schemes simply did not pay . |
| 3 | The first time I did not pay his passage money . |
| 4 | In Kufra , in 1979 , some people did not pay their contribution to the small boy who visited the houses , so their shaikh went in person . |
| 5 | The less critical saw a city which was indeed made for pleasure — though as always it did not pay to be poor — and which was above all beautiful . |
| 6 | The question , posed by the Tobacco Advisory Council , was asking if readers knew that if smokers did not pay £11.5 million a day in tax , the basic rate of income tax would rise by about 5p in the pound . |
| 7 | He was frequently sick , though the doctor could find nothing physically wrong with him , took to borrowing money which he did not pay back , and was averse to working or changing his clothes . |
| 8 | Since government did not pay for the expenses of witnesses , this cost also fell on the cattle owner . |
| 9 | John Onanuga now admits that Chancellor Norman Lamont did not pay Pounds 17.47 for a bottle of Bricout champagne and a packet of Raffles cigarettes , as he and store manager David Newton first told reporters . |
| 10 | In fact , William Bates is no longer entitled to call himself chartered accountant as he let his membership lapse when he did not pay his dues last year . |
| 11 | In 1992 1,050 members lost the right to call themselves chartered accountants because they did not pay by 30 June . |
| 12 | In addition , a failure to pay a demand for taxes that was implicitly supported by the coercive powers of the state might result in unpleasant social and economic consequences for the taxpayer who did not pay . |
| 13 | The Ledingham-Smiths did not pay the £5,000 a week as required , but did continue the banker 's order for £1,000 a month . |
| 14 | EGG producers yesterday demanded the resignation of Suffolk Coastal MP John Gummer as Agriculture Minister after his department admitted it did not pay farmers enough compensation for the slaughter of poultry flocks after the 1988 salmonella-in-eggs scare . |
| 15 | Seven organisations did not pay relocation allowances to new recruits while of the remainder , eight gave similar allowances under both the relocation and recruitment headings and 18 provided different sets of allowances under the two categories . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , however , he did not pay lawyer C's firm . |
| 17 | More investigation may well reveal that manufacturing industry simply did not pay enough to get the best people . |
| 18 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 19 | And still the restaurant did not pay . |
| 20 | In their last wage packets , Harvard did not pay the £2,000 or so each that they were expecting . |
| 21 | One controversial licensed dealer often did not pay its interest due , although expected it from clients . |
| 22 | At present , we did not pay the same attention to the commercial development of our country that other nations paid to their development on those lines . |
| 23 | The king , however , did not pay for them , not least because he was saving by this means the need to provide the beneficiary with a pension from the exchequer . |
| 24 | Indeed , a National Economic Development Office report showed that low pay itself was a probable cause of inefficiency ; given the cheapness of labour , it did not pay employers to organize their own side more effectively . |
| 25 | The defendant did not pay , and on 30 May 1990 , more than six years after completion of the works but less than six years from the service of the demands , the local authority , pursuant to section 10(3) of the Act of 1957 issued a summons in the county court seeking payment . |
| 26 | The defendant did not pay . |
| 27 | Parke B. , at p. 630 , concluded that the payment ‘ was not voluntary , because , in effect , the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk , that if he did not pay for certificates when he wanted to make extracts , he should not be permitted to search . ’ |
| 28 | The company initially expressed doubts as to their liability to duty but were informed that the revenue were of the opinion that the duties were payable and that they would incur penalties if they did not pay . |
| 29 | C let his theatre to B. B did not pay his rent , so C re-entered and thus terminated the lease . |
| 30 | Cathbad did not contribute very much to the meetings , and so Lugh did not pay him very much attention . |