Example sentences of "was not [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The fact that I was not alive when the munich thing happened — and that it happened so long ago — gives me far less problems with it than say heysel songs , hillsboro songs , and even racist ( black ) songs . |
| 3 | He was not guilty because the deception came after the obtaining . |
| 4 | Accordingly Morris was applied with the result that the accused was not guilty because the shop manager had consented to the taking of the items . |
| 5 | The petition was not successful but a deputation to Sir James Graham , Home Secretary , in April 1842 received some encouragement and an amended petition and a draft of a Charter of Incorporation was submitted to him on 24 March 1843 . |
| 6 | For all his enjoyment of the work and the companionship of his team the lad was not sorry when the ground covered , about half an acre , showed that it was time for his midday snack . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ( 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 ) ) . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was held that the clause did not apply to a delay where the port was not inaccessible but the master deemed the port unsafe due to ice ( Tillmanns & Co v SS Knutford Ltd [ 1908 ] 2 KB 385 ) . |
| 12 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 13 | However it was held that the benefit from the 1986 contract was not outstanding as the customer had chosen to place earlier contracts worth $75 million for non-patented display units despite being fully aware of the invention 's existence and capabilities . |
| 14 | The conciliar stress upon it was not new and the Decree on the Lay Apostolate is one of the less advanced texts the Council produced . |
| 15 | If that material is subsequently found and shows that the invention was not new when the patent was applied for , the patent is in danger of being revoked . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | The European Court of Justice held that it was not relevant whether the ownership of the undertaking was transferred . |
| 18 | it was not relevant that the insurer was prepared to make a payment in the event that they did provide insurance cover . |
| 19 | Judgment was given for the defendant ; the jury had found that she was not negligent and the court held that she ought not to be liable for an extraordinary act of nature which she could not reasonably anticipate . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal held that the term was not uncertain because the vendor could either give a quarter 's notice or vacate the property without giving notice . |
| 22 | But he was not sure that the boy was a nice , suitable boy . |
| 23 | He was not sure whether the pulse which beat in their joined hands was hers or his . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | While there was a chancel and a holy table the chancel was not long and the table was not put against the east wall ; the pulpit was to the side , an unusual feature in Baptist Gothic buildings . |
| 26 | The full assimilation of this population to the native English and the submergence of Anglo-Norman culture within English culture took several centuries to complete , while the political separation of English and French territory was not complete until the loss of Calais to the English crown in the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The hope was that the assembly would come to be accepted by both religious groups ; unanimity was not possible but the objective was to achieve a fairly broad consensus . |
| 29 | Izetbegovic stated that an ethnic division was not possible because the population was very mixed . |
| 30 | ‘ Sara Binks ’ , as a work of prairie humour , may have had its enlightened passages , but it was not subtle and the lampoon never quite came off . |