Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] not " in BNC.

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1 We agree that the specific algorithm we used wold have been inappropriate if we were interested in examining seasonal or short-term changes in primary production , not because the algorithm does not include a grazing term but because it does not include terms for irradiance and quantum efficiency .
2 The porter did not even pause in his stride .
3 When he returns for his payment she shows him another body , claiming the porter has not done the job asked of him .
4 The assistant recorder was right to find , as he did , that the allegations of agency set out in the defence had not been made out .
5 If it appears that the prosecution has failed to prove an essential element of the offence , or if its evidence has been discredited in cross-examination , there is no case to answer and the defence does not respond .
6 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 .
7 The defence does n't always accept the scientific findings .
8 ‘ It was this latter risk that those conducting the defence decided not to take . ’
9 We were cut to pieces by Watford , though the defence did not help itself by defending too deeply .
10 There was no significant interaction effect showing the nature of the response does not effect reaction time .
11 After three months , however , the response did not justify the effort from the bureau and the initiators had to rethink their approach to young people .
12 The response did not greatly surprise him .
13 Aduna said he gave international organisations an early warning five months ago , ‘ but the response has not been good ’ .
14 Think about it : if marriage is a partnership , the fact that one may be functioning in a responsibility that provides the income does not entitle that partner to sole ownership .
15 The income funded not only the keeper 's wages but also those of the pit bobby — the estate policeman .
16 The income did not change its nature just because the trustees took their expenses from the same .
17 My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries .
18 ‘ But for clubs going from the fourth to the third sums between £50,000 and £100,000 are about the going rate so £200,000 from the second to the Premier does n't seem unlikely , ’ he said .
19 Mr Smith said the Premier had not just humiliated himself and his Government through the sterling crisis — he had humiliated Britain .
20 When the advocates of a pro-Israeli policy happened to be Jewish , says the Jewish Mr Teicher , the Arabists did not hesitate to whisper ‘ dual loyalty ’ .
21 In our country the cost of a conventional cholecystectomy is estimated at US$2400 ( £1400 ) , the inability to work not taken into consideration .
22 The fact that we are situated right next to the park does not escape our notice and we have in fact had people in from the park who sleep rough there .
23 But look , the park does n't close until six .
24 ‘ Listen to that Amy , that Jerry plane that crashed in the park did n't make as much bloody row as 'im . ’
25 We 've been in the park have n't we ?
26 The flat rate addition will be expressed as a percentage but , as the formula for calculating it and the figure itself have yet to be agreed with the European Commission , the amount of the addition has not been announced .
27 For older people to have the opportunity to participate not only on juries but in other civic activities after they retire , the major proposals must be :
28 But the opportunity had not arisen , and Aldrich had taken no initiative in effecting any introduction .
29 If the opportunity does n't present itself naturally you have to engineer the situation so you can explain an important or emotional message .
30 Ridley , as an ophthalmologist , might well have followed up this observation with more studies of eye infections , but the opportunity seems not to have been pursued .
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