Example sentences of "properly [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Akehurst was early in understanding the importance of administrative and employment law in international organisations and , although others have carried this work forward , his contribution during the 1960s can properly be regarded as pioneering . |
| 2 | Practice Richard Ashworth and ors v Berkeley-Walbrook Ltd ; CA ( Russell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 27 Sept 1989 As a general rule , where a counterclaim could properly be relied on as a set-off and where it arose out of the same subject matter as the claim , the counterclaiming defendant ought not to be required to give security for costs of that counterclaim unless there were exceptional circumstances . |
| 3 | Art should identify and condemn injustice and evil , but it can never properly be used to humiliate those , living or dead , who are among the best of our species . |
| 4 | He was musing that the synthetic religions of Stalin and Hitler should neither of them ‘ properly be called pagan , but if you do call them pagan then we must say that they 're inferior as religions to genuine primitive pagan religion ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ But I think it highly unlikely that Mr Clowes could have found any means of ensuring that investigation of the matters in question was averted , while at the same time satisfying the Department that his operations could properly be licensed . |
| 6 | A database requires maintenance , not merely because new records will have to have their content assessed and controlled , but because when new ideas permeate the academic disciplines , this too should properly be reflected in the terminology used in the construction of records . |
| 7 | Any sensitive reading of a story demands a feeling for how far one is permitted to push the significance of its details , and an awareness of those questions that can properly be asked of it , and those which can not . |
| 8 | The gun was a revolver , however , and it did fire , killing V. The Court of Appeal held that D might properly be convicted if his belief that there was no danger of the gun firing was formed in a criminally negligent way . |
| 9 | while the portion of the Forest at present planted under the Acts may properly be managed with a view to producing the most profitable crop of trees , the remainder of the Forest should henceforth , in the interest of the nation at large , be managed with a view to the preservation of its natural aspect and condition as a Forest of surpassing beauty and unique character . |
| 10 | ‘ Can anyone properly be said to ‘ earn ’ these amounts ? ’ it asks . |
| 11 | The ‘ Auld Alliance ’ and the French Connection should more properly be called the Scots Connection . |
| 12 | A minority of us thought that some schools should be integrated as sixth-form colleges , or centres , to which entry might properly be academically competitive . |
| 13 | For instance , if the surveyor failed to carry out his inspection and to present his report within the agreed time and as a result a house at a bargain price was lost , then a claim could properly be made for compensation . |
| 14 | The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It now remains to ask what to many is the most difficult question , whether , given that the services are available , albeit on a limited basis , they can properly be denied to certain patients.3 This raises not only the issue of fairness or justice , but also that of selective treatment and respect for life . |
| 17 | The subsequent application of such rules or guidelines must properly be left to those with particular knowledge of the circumstances of the cases in question . |
| 18 | Conversely , the ethically proper allocation of funds to health , as compared to education or defence , is quintessentially an issue for political debate , and can not properly be left for individuals in the trenches to fight over , when they have no knowledge or view of the larger issues . |
| 19 | But it is only against such a background , I submit , that the issue of the technological imperative can properly be understood . |
| 20 | Without doubt , the proposals may properly be described as controversial . |
| 21 | However , perhaps this increase should not be seen as the emergence of local politics , but should more properly be viewed as their re-emergence . |
| 22 | Performance in education is complex , controversial and should properly be set in the context of long time scales . |
| 23 | As to the second , there are two fractals in physics whose D is fairly well accounted for , namely the ‘ Brownian ’ drift of a small particle jostled by molecules in a fluid which is an erratic curve with D=2 , and the hierarchy of density fluctuations in a fluid at the critical point where it can not properly be considered as liquid or gas . |
| 24 | Three of de Forbin 's remaining ships made a brief appearance in the Moray Firth , about 45 miles [ 72 km ] east of Inverness , where they landed a foraging party , but with these exceptions not a Frenchman set foot on what , since 1707 , could properly be called British soil . |
| 25 | In 1976 , the film Ilsa , She-wolf of the SS was brought before the courts of New York State on a charge of obscenity , but the case was dismissed because the judge found nothing which could properly be covered by the Miller test , no ‘ lewd exhibition of the genitals ’ , no representations of ‘ ultimate sexual acts , normal or perverted ’ . |
| 26 | It is a judgment about moral limits and one which reasonable adults can properly be expected to make in a democratic community . |
| 27 | At the same time , a constituency should form a homogenous whole and , ideally , it should not be so large in area that its affairs can not properly be overseen by its Members . |
| 28 | If the surrounding web of reality which we perceive is partly true and partly false , then in order to get closer to the truth some things need to be doubted so that others can properly be believed . |
| 29 | Downtown LA , with its glittering towers and walled-off enclaves , is the outward and visible sign of the corruption the detectives from the Centers for Disease Control should properly be probing . |
| 30 | the activities of each constituent member ‘ should properly be regarded ’ as those of the business described in the direction , carried on concurrently or previously ( or both ) ( VAT Act 1983 , Sch 1 , para 1A(1) and ( 2 ) as inserted by FA 1986 , s 10(1) ) . |