Example sentences of "was not [adj] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its reply , in a memorandum to HM Treasury , the Institute said that it was not convinced that the proposals were needed . |
| 2 | The statement would certainly have no effect on a jury trial taking place six months later , and the court was not convinced that the statement carried the defamatory implication that Crozier was dishonest or incompetent . |
| 3 | The ‘ development risks ’ defence is available where the defendant shows ‘ that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control . ’ |
| 4 | ( c ) Where the defendant can show that : " the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control " ( s. 4(1) ( e ) ) . |
| 5 | Section 4(1) ( e ) states as follows : ( e ) that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control … |
| 6 | Secretary of State for Social Services , ex parte CPAG , ( [ 1989 ] 1 All ER 1047 ) the Court of Appeal affirmed a decision of the High Court in which the trial judge had said that the practicability of such speedy decision making was not such that the Secretary of State was required to appoint sufficient adjudication officers to enable claims to be decided within 14 days , and recognized that workloads may lead to delays beyond the time limit expressed in the Social Security Act 1975 . |
| 7 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 8 | It was not accidental that the report of the committee later included the remark , ‘ It is difficult to see what private or public purpose is served by the exaction of untrue confessions , and it is a danger to be constantly guarded against . ’ |
| 9 | it was not relevant that the insurer was prepared to make a payment in the event that they did provide insurance cover . |
| 10 | It was not clear whether by this time children were possible for the couple ; it was not apparent that the author knew much about that kind of thing . |
| 11 | But he was not sure that the boy was a nice , suitable boy . |
| 12 | I was not certain that the trust was deserved , but Bonefish was convinced I was protecting his son from iniquity , and no assertion to the contrary would convince him otherwise . |
| 13 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 14 | According to , corporate finance partner , it was not surprising that a quarter of all respondents said the recession had affected their consideration of an MBO . |
| 15 | Also , given the political context , it was not surprising that the growth of fascism should meet with such hostility in Great Britain . |
| 16 | It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom . |
| 17 | Given the geographic spread of the ‘ contestants ’ it was not surprising that the packages arrived back at varying times but outlying areas such as Newcastle , Liverpool and Bristol were not obviously handicapped . |
| 18 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 19 | It was not surprising that the amount spent on exploration sank from $760 million in the still relatively fat year of 1979 to between $120 and $150 million at the end of the 1980s and the size of known reserves remained static over a period of at least four years . |
| 20 | Their conduct could not have been so described because the court believed that despite its insolvency , it was not inconceivable that the business could have been returned to prosperity . |
| 21 | To puritan divines such as William Perkins and William Pemble , it was not self-evident that the works of science were good works . |
| 22 | A senior county council official said later on Tuesday he was not optimistic that the decision would be reversed . |
| 23 | Mr Walker said yesterday that he was not optimistic that the deal would be concluded in time to stop the family being thrown out of their home . |
| 24 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 25 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 27 | Further , he was not satisfied that the application of s 2(8) to the use to be made of the transcript would fetter the SFO 's investigative powers , as ( once the existence of facts disclosed by the transcript became known ) these could be proved by other means . |
| 28 | He said he was not satisfied that the fire had been started deliberately , let alone who might have started it and that the scientific evidence was ‘ underlined by a number of assumptions which have been shown to be totally false ’ . |
| 29 | He was not surprised that the government had declined to arrest members of parliament such as Dr. Ian Paisley and Harry West or other elected representatives such as members of the Northern Ireland Assembly . |
| 30 | £45,000 was the asking price and I was not surprised that the sale , so to speak , hung fire . |