Example sentences of "the [noun] not [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten had been shaken by a ( to him ) unexpected decision by the courts not to declare the teachers ' action illegal , and by an NOP opinion poll showing that parents back the boycott . |
| 2 | One example was the decision not to destroy the ruins of the German cathedral , where Kant is buried . |
| 3 | He regrets the decision not to re-title the revision : ‘ It was completely rewritten , but keeping the title meant that a lot of people decided not to buy it . |
| 4 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 5 | Miss Goddard urged that the decision not to serve the notice was correct in view of the complexity of the whole investigation . |
| 6 | The decision not to renew the contract with the landlords Hill Samuel was taken in the light of rising costs and declining sales . |
| 7 | It could then be only too convenient if the Secretary of State made the decision not to investigate the accident . |
| 8 | Treachery is unlikely , but the decision not to attack the Scottish camp , and not to pursue the Scots when they broke camp , suggests at the very least a lack of confidence and judgement amongst the English commanders , and there is some evidence of disagreement amongst them about the tactics they should adopt . |
| 9 | Peter Marsden , Inverclyde 's director of housing , said the decision not to fit the £5 alarms was not attributable to any single factor , although the council had to set funding priorities , such as keeping houses watertight . |
| 10 | He cited benefits that Scotland had received from the Budget such as the decision not to raise the duty on whisky and the North Sea measures . |
| 11 | The decision not to start the project obviously has a pay-off of 0 . |
| 12 | The decision not to start the project obviously has a pay-off of 0 . |
| 13 | Delegates decided to make 1992 a " Year of Indigenous , Black and People 's Resistance " and called on European countries and the Vatican not to celebrate the Columbus anniversary . |
| 14 | Short-term leases , if they do n't contain an absolute bar to assignment , commonly contain a covenant by the lessee not to assign the lease without the lessor 's licence , and usually provide that such licence shall not be unreasonably withheld — if such proviso is omitted , then acting for a prospective lessee you should always insert it in the draft . |
| 15 | ‘ If he 's finished you 'd think he 'd have the manners not to leave the table in such a mess , ’ the girls would grumble ; but they or Rose would always put his books away . |
| 16 | However , if , when the lease is granted , there is a binding agreement between the parties not to waive the exemption , stamp duty will be charged on the VAT-exclusive amount . |
| 17 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 18 | then proposed and seconded the adoption of the Directors Report ( as amended by the proposal not to reappoint the present auditors ) and the Revenue Account and Balance Sheet , and this was carried unanimously . |
| 19 | invites the Bar Council to investigate the decision by the DPP not to prosecute the six police officers found responsible for the unlawful killing of . |
| 20 | A further level of protection sought by some vendors is an undertaking by the purchaser not to solicit the vendor 's employees if the transaction fails . |
| 21 | The justification ( in addition to the desire not to increase the department 's work load ) is that local authorities are elected bodies which have been given the legal power to decide . |
| 22 | These cases illustrate the importance which the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords attached to the need not to constrain the Commission and the Office of Fair Trading within narrow bounds and to emphasize the width of their discretionary powers . |
| 23 | If not , and if there are to be individual assessments of the criteria , will the Foreign Secretary assure the House that if Germany decides that the criteria have been met and recognises the republics but Britain decides that the criteria have not been met , the United Kingdom will reserve the right not to recognise the republics ? |
| 24 | This could occur if the plaintiff was asked to do a job beyond his competence , the equipment was not easily accessible , or pressure was brought to bear on the plaintiff not to use the equipment . |
| 25 | Waechter , the party 's moving force since its foundation in 1984 , was the only member of the leadership not to condemn the initiative , which was supported by 18 per cent of delegates at the meeting . |
| 26 | In reaching this conclusion I have not , of course , overlooked the findings in the special case [ that the owners never intended to affirm the agreement for extra payments ] but I do not think that an intention on the part of the owners not to affirm the agreement for the extra payments , not indicated to the yard , can avail them in view of their overt acts . |
| 27 | We simply asked the ANL not to block the entrances to the park , and only to hand its placards to their own members . |
| 28 | ‘ One of her lines … as the king … goes on about the Gods not suffering the unpiety of his sister to go unpunished . |
| 29 | Any changes which are not disclosed may cause the court not to sanction the scheme if it decides that they would have influenced shareholders on how to vote . |
| 30 | It is not appropriate here to analyse , nor even to state , the many reasons for this difficulty , but after scrutinising the research findings I have to say that LEAs have on the whole not seen the implications of the 1981 Act for social services departments or district health authorities . |