Example sentences of "not constitute a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the beneficiary dies before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but after a determination or disposal of his interest which has taken place after 25/3/74 , then that determination or disposal does not constitute a chargeable transfer . |
| 2 | If the beneficiary has died after the determination or disposal of his interest and before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , that determination or disposal does not constitute a chargeable transfer . |
| 3 | Science does not start with observation statements because theory of some kind precedes all observation statements , and observation statements do not constitute a firm basis on which scientific knowledge can be founded because they are fallible . |
| 4 | The outcome will be recorded but the finding does not constitute a black mark on the record of the officer involved . |
| 5 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 6 | Office can not be inherited and members of the apparatus do not constitute a closed group . |
| 7 | It is accepted that general reading of the financial press is important but should not constitute a major part of the CPE undertaken . |
| 8 | Notice that the following configuration does not constitute a proportional series according to the above definition : |
| 9 | The Supreme Soviet ordered the authorities in those republics to set up referendum organizing commissions without delay , and ruled that alternative referendums on independence being held in some of those republics [ see p. 38014 and below ] did not constitute a legitimate substitute for the all-union referendum . |
| 10 | Put simply , once we move away from the commencement theory of jurisdiction then the rationale for saying that absence of evidence does not constitute a jurisdictional defect simply disappears . |
| 11 | The ratio of Nat Bell , that no evidence does not constitute a jurisdictional error , was simply the natural consequence of a conception of jurisdiction under which the courts would not reassess the meaning ascribed to the constituent elements of jurisdiction . |
| 12 | Darwinism did not constitute a unified research programme , and by the end of the century the fragile unity imposed upon several diverse fields by the appeal to Darwin 's name as a figurehead had broken down . |
| 13 | Delay caused by a failure of the legal aid authorities to act , or act reasonably may constitute good reason , but delay caused by the failure of the plaintiff or his solicitors to act promptly in applying for legal aid , or for the removal of a legal aid restriction , will not constitute a good reason ( Waddon v Whitecroft-Scovill Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 309 ) . |
| 14 | Such an interpretation allows the courts to hold that a common activity such as the collection and storage of gas or water does not constitute a non-natural use of land , even though the injury potential of the activity is high . |
| 15 | Investigators who opt for the first solution may seek out variable syntactic elements where meaning variation does not constitute a serious problem ; this is the general approach taken by Cheshire . |
| 16 | Because of the success of The Making of the English Landscape people who had no interest in the countryside have read the book and been inspired by it But others have used the book and particularly this chapter as an authoritative statement that most hedges are modern and thus do not constitute a serious loss if they are removed to accommodate modern agricultural techniques . |
| 17 | However , this qualification of the floating charge holder 's rights does not constitute a serious erosion of the rights of the floating charge holder since he can block the making of an administration order by appointing an administrative receiver . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ This tragedy could have been avoided because the method of decanting used in an enclosed space with a direct source of ignition available and the use of an unsuitable type of hand lamp did not constitute a safe system of working . ’ |
| 19 | He stressed that this did not constitute a formal ceasefire , however , saying that a ceasefire would be achieved only if Iraq agreed to surrender all allied and Kuwaiti prisoners ; to provide maps of all minefields ; and to accept all relevant UN resolutions on the Gulf . |
| 20 | If the position of power that comes about when shareholders combine their property in a company is damaging in either of these ways , then an invocation of ownership rights will not constitute a conclusive justification . |
| 21 | The criterion of distortion is that statements are made about the society which by social-scientific methods can be shown to be positively in error , whereas selectivity [ i.e. primary selectivity ] is involved where the statements are , at the proper level , ‘ true ’ , but do not constitute a balanced account of the available truth . |
| 22 | It should be noted in such circumstances there is no breakage of glass and therefore this type of occurrence does not constitute a valid claim . |
| 23 | Even though the data derived from the Detailed Spectrum Investigation does not constitute a detailed analysis of the European situation , it is possible to draw some general conclusions . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , these arguments do not constitute a definitive refutation of inductivism , especially as it turns out that many rival theories of science face a similar , related difficulty . |
| 25 | The orthodox legal position was re-stated namely , that where there is an effective reservation of title clause this does not constitute a conventional security device as it is a reservation of title by the supplier rather than a grant by the debtor of a jus in re aliena ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 26 | In some ways , postnominal attributives are also relatively straightforward ; thus it is perfectly clear that they are like ordinary prenominal attributives in that they do not constitute a full sentence with the noun or noun phrase that precedes them , and that they are part of the same entity-identifying phrase . |
| 27 | This is almost to concede , if it does not in fact do so , that a board deriving its authority from two opposed sources can not constitute a corporate body such as decision-taking requires . |
| 28 | He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance . |
| 29 | However joint decisions by the Greek and Turkish members could not constitute a unanimous decision of the Commission in the face of opposition from the neutral members . |
| 30 | Hohne , the EAT reached a similar conclusion in that when the employer moved from premises in High Holborn to Regent Street , the move itself did not constitute a fundamental breach because the new premises were just as easily accessible to Mrs Hohne as she travelled by underground . |