Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] because [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This conclusion is controversial ; a legal issue does not cease to be such simply because the term in question is open to a range of possible meanings . |
| 2 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 3 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 4 | Further , this principle should not be inapplicable simply because the citizen paid the money under mistake of law . |
| 5 | This principle should extend to embrace cases in which the tax or other levy has been wrongly exacted by the public authority not because the demand was ultra vires but for other reasons , for example because the authority had misconstrued a relevant statute or regulation , and should not be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law . |
| 6 | Nor do I think it necessary to consider for the purposes of the present case to what extent the common law may provide the public authority with a defence to a claim for the repayment of money so paid ; though for the reasons I have already given , I do not consider that the principle of recovery should be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law . |
| 7 | Thus , a lease which contains a rent review clause will not be uncertain merely because the amount of the rent is not known at the date of the lease . |
| 8 | The conclusions reached by the planner would not necessarily be valid simply because a computer simulation model had been used . |