Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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61 A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed .
62 Mrs Bridger , of Roman Way , Farnham , did not give evidence .
63 L unsuccessfully submitted that there was no case to answer and did not give evidence .
64 TJ , who did not give evidence , was convicted and appealed , submitting that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong to rule that there was no breach of the Code ; ( 2 ) the judge wrongly told the jury that there had been no breach , thus undermining the defence speech to the jury on this point ; ( 3 ) the evidence was unsafe and unsatisfactory having regard to the evidence given by D ; and the judge should have withdrawn the case from the jury .
65 The accused , if committed , is given copies of the depositions , but is not provided with copies of the statements taken by the police except when the Crown intends to call a witness who did not give evidence at the preliminary inquiry , in which case the Crown will serve the defence with a notice of intention and a copy of the witness 's statement .
66 The plaintiff who did not give evidence in the county court failed to recover the excess payments on the ground that they were made voluntarily .
67 The appellant did not give evidence .
68 The appellant did not give evidence on his own behalf .
69 The plaintiff himself did not give evidence , so there was no evidence ( as opposed to submissions ) as to what the plaintiff would have done had he known the full facts .
70 The plaintiff did not give evidence , so there is no evidence as to the attitude he would have adopted had he known the facts .
71 Quigg , who denied all the charges , did not give evidence .
72 He did not give figures for troops and hardware .
73 Most of the expenditure was outside the dollar area , and did not give rise to immediate dollar payments .
74 The German press disappeared after Germany 's defeat in the First World War , while the missionary press , though of some historical interest , did not give rise to publications of any major importance .
75 But they did not give rise to new grouping systems within or between schools .
76 On an appeal by the plaintiff the Court of Appeal held ( dismissing the appeal ) that in so far as the rules of the club provided that two of its officers were to be responsible in law for the conduct of the club then ( in the absence of an express provision that the officers were responsible for the condition of the club premises ) the rules did not give rise to a duty of care towards individual members to maintain the club premises in a reasonable state of safety and repair .
77 My noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , has expressed the opinion that these letters , on their true construction , did not give rise to any such implied agreement .
78 Held , dismissing the appeals , that , prior to the enactment of the Congenital Disabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 , at common law a breach of the duty of care did not give rise to a cause of action in negligence until the plaintiff suffered an injury ; that , although a foetus did not enjoy an independent legal personality , by the time that the plaintiffs were born in 1967 the common law recognised that a child born with a deformity because of a negligent act occurring during the mother 's pregnancy had a cause of action ; and that , therefore , the plaintiffs had a cause of action against the defendant health authorities for any negligent act prior to their birth which caused them to be born with deformities ( post , pp. 654H , 656D–F , 660E — 661D ) .
79 Held , dismissing the appeal , that since it was the business of estate agents to act for numerous principals , several of whom might be competing and whose interests would conflict , a term was to be implied in the contract with such an agent that he was entitled to act for other principals selling similar properties and to keep confidential information obtained from each principal and that the agent 's fiduciary duty was determined by the contract of agency ; that since the plaintiff knew that the defendants would be acting for other vendors of comparable properties and would receive confidential information from them , the agency contract could not have included terms requiring them to disclose that confidential information to him , or precluding them from acting for rival vendors , or from trying to earn commission on the sale of another vendor 's property ; and that , accordingly , although the purchaser 's interest in acquiring both properties was material information which could have affected negotiations for the sale price of the plaintiff 's house , the defendants were not in breach of their duty in failing to inform the plaintiff of the agreement to buy the adjacent house , which was confidential to the owner thereof , and the defendants ' financial interest in that sale did not give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty ( post , pp. 941A–B , G–H , 942A–B , G — 943B ) .
80 Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be .
81 However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern .
82 It was held that the regulations did not give rise to an action for damages .
83 Scotland Yard , who did not give ages , addresses or occupations of the two men , said Taylor was also charged with the attempted murder of Pc Philip Thorne in Walford Road on Tuesday .
84 Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living .
85 Although this meant the withdrawal of the Prussian garrison , it did not give Napoleon III the territory he had sought , and with it the frontier rectification in France 's favour .
86 He spoke not because he felt that the denomination was threatened or was losing ground but because the status quo did not give Congregationalism the dignity its growing wealth and membership had earned for it .
87 The electric signalling bells did not give satisfaction and were gradually replaced by cord operated bells .
88 In the 1980s , among an entire group of paediatric anaesthetists , a substantial fraction believed that newborn children did not feel pain and therefore they did not give analgesics to newborn babies .
89 The company did not give details of drives used or capacities , or any indication of prices .
90 On this latter point , however , they did not give details of how this was achieved in schools .
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