Example sentences of "was not [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore asserted what it considered to be the position at which the public/private distinction should be fixed , a position which would allow prostitution to be effectively a private matter as long as it was not conducted on the streets . |
| 2 | Putting it in different words , the trick was not applied to the appellants ; they voluntarily applied themselves to the trick . |
| 3 | For clinicians without access to bone densitometry , these results are helpful in showing that the improvement with HRT was similar in both Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis ; in addition , the response to oestrogens was not related to the patients age or the number of postmenopausal years . |
| 4 | It was held by the Court of Appeal that the bank was not affected by the improprieties committed towards the defendants by the director and solicitors of S. Ltd. , and that the charge was enforceable . |
| 5 | By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge . |
| 6 | This was not supported by the results of the ICS , whose authors claim that their male interviewers actually uncovered more cases of sexual assault than did female interviewers . |
| 7 | Firstly , piecing together the BBC TV environment of the early Sixties shows why Doctor Who was not devised as a Children 's Series . |
| 8 | The taxpayer was unsuccessful in his appeal that the Commissioners ' conclusion was not justified by the facts before them . |
| 9 | If the trustees are found to be the settlor 's nominees the settlor will be the person assessed on the trading or other income ( Dreyfus v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 441 ) although the Inland Revenue will usually find it difficult to establish nomineeship if this was not intended by the parties ( Burman v Hedges and Butler Ltd [ 1979 ] STC 136 ) . |
| 10 | " Tanah Toraja " , or " Torajaland " , could only be reached via a hazardous fourteen-hour jeep-ride , a journey which was not enhanced by the sensibilities of our zealous Abu . |
| 11 | It would give the viewer freedom of choice , even if that freedom was not extended to the broadcasters . |
| 12 | They would perhaps be organic unities too in a sense close to Moore 's but the way in which the value of the whole was not composed of the values of the parts will be different . |
| 13 | Where crops were sold both by large estates and small farmers or peasants , the situation was more complex , though in peasant economies , for obvious reasons , the proportion of the crop which came on the world market — i.e. which was not consumed by the producers — from large estates was normally much larger than that which came from the peasant holdings . |
| 14 | Her new job was not advertised around the branches . |
| 15 | Any theme or emphasis on medium , subject matter or style was brought out by the selectors and was not imposed by the organisers in any way . |
| 16 | Michelle Collins says she was not warned about the dangers of becoming pregnant while she was taking a drug to treat her epilepsy . |
| 17 | It was held that this did not entitle the seller to take from the buyer the proceeds of the sub-sales of his ( the seller 's ) property ; instead it merely created a charge in favour of the seller which was void because it was not registered under the Companies Act . |
| 18 | The poison was not given to the Indians in massive doses that would have provoked a reaction , but was administered drop by drop , until it brought about the loss of personality . |
| 19 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 20 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 21 | Unlike in the early 1960s , section 1 of the Official Secrets Act was not employed against the protesters at any point during this period though clearly it could have been . |
| 22 | One party may seek to reject a point in the sale agreement because it was not covered in the heads of terms . |
| 23 | Alternatively , a purchaser may refuse to provide a parent company guarantee if this was not covered in the heads . |
| 24 | This explains why Mr. Llewellyn-Jones , for the defendant , sought to persuade your Lordships that the power to order the board to pay the defendant 's costs under section 18 was not limited to the costs he incurred as an unassisted party but extended to the whole costs of the proceedings . |
| 25 | When I was not swinging on the goalposts , I was arguing with the rest of the girls ( or playing ‘ chasy ’ games with the boys ) . |
| 26 | But members have realised our world championship standard course was not matched by the facilities inside . " |
| 27 | The goldsmiths noticed that a large proportion of the gold was not withdrawn from the vaults and as a result they seized the opportunity of making profits by granting loans through the issue of ‘ receipts ’ in excess of actual gold deposits . |
| 28 | The Lycett & Conaty radial gear had not proved satisfactory and it seems that ‘ Warner ’ radial gear was obtained from M & G Truck & Engineering Co. to replace it by 1912 , but was not fitted to the cars until 1922 or 1923 . |
| 29 | This CCL was not based on the capabilities of any one system , and it attempted to provide for all the facilities through any existing bibliographic information system . |
| 30 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |