Example sentences of "not pay the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 2 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 3 | By paying a hundred and twenty grand you would n't get it , because you 're not paying the equivalent , |
| 4 | She wanted to make some sarcastic retort about his being so bossy , but he was already clearing away the plates , not paying the slightest scrap of attention to her , and she realised that it was this lack of attention that really annoyed her . |
| 5 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 6 | Leases contain their own procedures for defaulting tenants who do not pay the increased rental determined by an expert . |
| 7 | Person 2 would certainly not pay the higher price necessary to induce a competitive supplier to expand production beyond the output Q. Person 2 is thus a free-rider enjoying person 1 's purchase Q. And the total quantity privately produced and consumed in a competitive market lies below the socially efficient quantity Q * ; |
| 8 | And if he does not pay , or does not pay the full amount , then payments will have to be enforced leaving the lone mother to cope in the meantime ( although for those on income support maintenance can , as now , be signed over to the DSS ) . |
| 9 | Why he did not pay the full amount must remain a mystery . |
| 10 | And of course if an individual is fined and does not pay the fine then it is to prison he will go . |
| 11 | Is n't it strange that most of us do not pay the same careful attention to our body ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the case of a woman who elects not to pay the full National Insurance contribution the full National Insurance benefit to which she would have been entitled if she had not so elected is deducted from the sickness allowance . |
| 14 | A complication is then discussed : if the testator had not paid the full value of the office as a lifetime gift , a claim for the excess would remain . |