Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was also rejected on the ground that the Commission had wide and flexible discretion and was not obliged to put every piece of material to all interested parties . |
| 2 | As an ex-naval coxswain I was not obliged to take the Mountbatten course but did in fact take a refresher course at the Command Navigation Centre , HMS Raleigh at Torpoint which , under the auspices of a Lieut Commander fresh from training at Dartmouth Naval College , I found very arduous . |
| 3 | Under the terms of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance , Japan was not obliged to enter the war as a belligerent , but Foreign Minister Kató urged the benefits to Japan of joining in , including possible gains in East Asia . |
| 4 | On Nov. 7 the Court further ruled that the La Taquina brewery was not obliged to pay the increased tax . |
| 5 | She was not sorry to see the back of Lazar Farm this time . |
| 6 | We felt it was not appropriate to return the miserly £300 grant from HQ to them . |
| 7 | At the same time American global responsibilities were such that it was not feasible to give an unlimited guarantee to south Korea . |
| 8 | The Leeds United manager was not content to pocket a £5,000 cheque and bask in the glory of his Manager of the Year award . |
| 9 | Mr Shigeru Oda , the International Court of Justice 's Japanese vice-president , said it had decided by 11 votes to five that it was not competent to issue an injunction to protect Libya from British and American measures . |
| 10 | After consultations in chambers , the court determined that on a technicality , it was not competent to hear the case . |
| 11 | The CDP recorded its concern about CNAA quinquennial visits and reports , and while considering it proper for the CNAA to judge whether an institution was a ‘ satisfactory environment for advanced work ’ thought it was not competent to adopt a ‘ judicial role ’ . |
| 12 | The Court assumes that failure to explain why it was not practicable to obtain a report from such a doctor will make the admission unlawful , and the same point is made by Professor Hoggett ( Mental Health Law ( 3rd ed. ) at pp.102–103 ) , who also stresses that the administrative arrangements for medical cover does not necessarily make it impracticable to obtain a recommendation from a doctor who knows the prospective patient . |
| 13 | It was not easy to steer a course between absolute pacifism and revolutionary violence . |
| 14 | It was not easy to get the necessary equipment , bedding , etc. , for army regulations did not deal with the issue of such things to an unattached missionary . |
| 15 | She had lined her pencil-box with pond-weed ready to receive the creature , but she discovered that it was not easy to get the newt out of the hat and into the pencil-box . |
| 16 | It was not easy to store the counterfoils of sale vouchers out of the range of white ants . |
| 17 | It was not easy to find a way of presenting prosaic information in a way which would attract parents . |
| 18 | It was not easy to find the room . |
| 19 | But it was not easy to break the habits of a lifetime . |
| 20 | I ate at the Corner House , very little , as it was not easy to pay the modest sum my landlady in Southwark , Mrs William Vitou , whose husband was a dental mechanic trained in Guy 's hospital , charged me , and eat a great deal apart from breakfast and a high tea . |
| 21 | Foreign Secretary David Owen was not keen to support the British Shipbuilder 's tender to supply six Type 21 frigates to Argentina , for at least a billion pounds . |
| 22 | Although Gillespie was not available to confirm the plan yesterday , the Clerk of The Course at Cheltenham , Major Philip Arkwright , said : |
| 23 | Havelock Wilson was not unwilling to accept the responsibility for having united the employers in this fashion even to the extent of acknowledging his rashness in so doing . |
| 24 | The student found that it was not uncommon to regard the young person 's stay in residential care as temporary . |
| 25 | In Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis [ 1987 ] ICR 464 they held that it was not right to extend the term of the injunction beyond the period for which the advantage might reasonably be expected to continue . |
| 26 | But in 1975 Bernard himself recognized the time was not right to buy a yacht . |
| 27 | Thereafter we carried on with the hearing of the argument on whether Thorpe J. was or was not right to make the order which he did in the different circumstances which then existed and as to the more general issues raised by this appeal . |
| 28 | They had known it was not right to separate a man from his wife for several months when she had a young baby and a business , in a manner of speaking , to care for . |
| 29 | It was not possible to transcend the anecdotal because the structure of the INSET programme was not sufficiently supportive . |
| 30 | Although it was not possible to evaluate the completeness of the sickness absence records directly , the records were used for pay purposes and were therefore likely to be complete for most participants . |