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

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1 People 's view of building is often somewhat different , and many feel savings can be made by not expending money on architect 's fees .
2 Since then single malt has been a great success , but Mr Sandy feels that the Treasury is exploiting it : ‘ Of course we were glad that the Chancellor decided not to increase excise on whisky , but last week 's Budget has not made things right .
3 He was responding at Commons question time after Labour urged the Chancellor not to increase tax on whisky in the Budget on 16 March .
4 Differentiation on certain levels did not prevent fusion on others .
5 However , if the scheme is viewed as one that does not tax interest on savings , then more consumption in the future can be financed from a given volume of savings and those seeking a target future consumption can meet it with a lower level of current savings .
6 TCGA 1992 , s69(1) deems the trust to be a person who is not resident in the United Kingdom ; 3. the trust is therefore outside the UK capital gains tax regime and the Revenue can not collect tax on capital payments under TCGA 1992 , s87(4) .
7 One problem is that the government does not collect information on wealth for tax purposes .
8 Papers that did not include a control group , were not randomised , did not allow calculation of ‘ intention to treat ’ results , or did not collect information on mortality or the incidence of respiratory or gastrointestinal infection were excluded .
9 Witnesses do not give evidence on oath .
10 This model accepts the virtues of plurality and local independence , and argues that a competitive local government is in the end a more efficient system ; nevertheless , it does not believe consensus on policy is realistic or desirable .
11 After all , brewers are not paying tax on beer that contains little or no alcohol , so it should be half the price of normal beer .
12 It has been their job to see that local councils do not spend money on activities which can not be justified by statute .
13 Police ringed the court at Darlaston , Walsall , West Midlands , as prosecutor Nelson Jerram asked magistrates not to free Cartwright on bail .
14 ‘ Do not demand interest on loans you make to a brother Israelite .
15 In view of the international and domestic controversy generated in 1985 when Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visited the shrine , together with the complications arising from Japan 's strict constitutional separation of church and state — those commemorated by the shrine being revered as Shinto deities — and the recent accusations of incipient militarism made by many neighbouring countries following the enactment of the PKO bill , however , Miyazawa stressed that his visit would be " in a private capacity " and would not take place on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of the ending of the Pacific War .
16 But we are determined that bait digging will not take place on Budle Bay and we will rigorously protect it , ’ he said .
17 They say they do not understand why their headmaster is so intent on persecuting them when 20 Jewish students do not attend school on Saturdays , a normal part of the school week in France .
18 Decision of UN Human Rights Commission not to consider resolution on Tibet
19 Looking to the future however some significant studies in the storage of electricity must be made before solar generation — or any of the other renewable techniques which can not produce power on demand — will really come into its own .
20 We have just seen that the general rule is that since X is not the owner he can not confer ownership on Y , who similarly can not confer ownership on Z. If Z refuses to return the goods to O , O has a claim against Z for conversion of the goods .
21 In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title .
22 We have just seen that the general rule is that since X is not the owner he can not confer ownership on Y , who similarly can not confer ownership on Z. If Z refuses to return the goods to O , O has a claim against Z for conversion of the goods .
23 In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title .
24 On Nov. 12 the outspoken chair of the Campaign for Democracy Beko Ransome Kuti called on Nigerians to " make the country ungovernable " by acts of civil disobedience if Babangida did not leave office on Jan. 2 as promised .
25 COMMENT AND FACT Newspapers should not express comment on conjecture as fact and should distinguish between them , but they are free to be partisan .
26 You may not drink alcohol on ES premises unless authorised by your manager in special circumstances , for example , office parties .
27 Dinah asked ; she had not wasted time on introductions ; these people knew perfectly well who she was , and she knew them .
28 Similarly , though he insisted on doctrine which he considered essential to the Anglican faith , he did not require conformity on non-essentials , and also believed that there were divine mysteries on which it was idle to speculate .
29 Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely .
30 This was the first time that a Conservative MP had publicly urged the government to abolish the zero rate of BAT since the before the last General Election when , in a letter to the Publishers Association , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals .
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