Example sentences of "was not [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 2 | ‘ Declaration granted that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged , the Director of the Serious Fraud Office was required to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 3 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 4 | The Commission communication of 19 July 1989 on a Community framework for access to fishing quotas was not appropriate to resolve that conflict , because it did not tackle the problem of the effective exploitation of the catch quotas allocated to the member states . |
| 5 | Lindblom was mainly interested in the problems of national governments and explaining why it was not appropriate to adopt overall planning models at that level . |
| 6 | Although all Colleges that were within the control of the LEA had broadly similar organisation structures , at a detailed level there were significant differences ( ie in structural arrangements and in the numbers and expertise of staff ) , and it was not appropriate to make detailed proposals for individual Colleges at this stage . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the Law Commission thought that it was not appropriate to provide different standards according to the nature of the transaction ( para 3.8 ) . |
| 8 | But Rolt was not content to pursue this full literary career . |
| 9 | Birkeland commented that it was not useful to blame poor populations for exploiting the few resources that they had , when fishing or mining reefs could earn them millions of dollars . |
| 10 | It was not easy to avoid domestic politics but we tried hard to achieve a delicate balance . |
| 11 | It was not easy to hear all that followed , but a right old tangle developed . |
| 12 | When death struck close to home it was not easy to accept such counsel , nor to see God 's design . |
| 13 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 14 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |
| 15 | But he added that it was not normal to find such evidence . |
| 16 | Furthermore , WIRS 's focus on matters other than employment practices means that information on certain useful contextual variables , particularly with respect to labour force structure and labour costs , was not available to test all the hypotheses the literature suggests . |
| 17 | Although many board members reported being fascinated by recent developments , it was not uncommon to find those who failed to appreciate the amount of change since their own schooldays . |
| 18 | However it was soon decided that the time was not right to consider this as well . |
| 19 | Only when it was not possible to squeeze another inch from the land do they stop , allowing the coarse heather to take hold on the steep cliffs . |
| 20 | Our study was retrospective and because the quality of general practitioners ' records varies and most records are destroyed after a patient dies , it was not possible to include such patients in our study . |
| 21 | It was not possible to do that . |
| 22 | It was not possible to do this without assuming that dreamwork transformations took place . |
| 23 | In England these were the buyers of boroughs and seats in Parliament , and although it was not possible to do this in Scotland , as there were never any ‘ rotten boroughs ’ in the English sense , those who arranged and meddled in the burgh elections were called ‘ Boroughmongers ’ after the English traffickers in boroughs . |
| 24 | I , I ca n't understand the secretariat allowing this to come out were told by the president that it was not possible to use this money unless it was grant related . |
| 25 | Although quite early in World War I both sides moved underground into elaborate trench systems , there were areas where it was not possible to dig deep trenches . |
| 26 | This policy caused great hardship in villages where it was not possible to grow enough rice for the needs of the residents . |
| 27 | After the war it was not possible to maintain national service statistics on the earlier scale , but medical records of school children did provide a comparable measure of national health and fitness . |
| 28 | However , it was not possible to get any quadraphonic effect from the record , no matter which system was tried . |
| 29 | It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism . |
| 30 | ‘ It became clear that it was not possible to achieve desirable social change in the Third World by treating people as if they were isolated objects , living outside a social context . ’ |