Example sentences of "not [be] [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was customary to fly a flag at half-mast when anyone connected with the May weekend died so , not to be beaten , committee members managed to obtain a telegraph pole , paint and erect it in one weekend so that old Amos would not be cheated of this sign of respect . |
| 2 | ‘ I will not be cheated of my prize ! ’ |
| 3 | The gingerbread should not be robbed of its gilt and yet this is what happens whenever hot news about impending changes turns into the cold gruel of daily management . |
| 4 | He then explained that William Tidbury could not be convicted of aiding and abetting because he had not been charged with that crime . |
| 5 | The Attorney-General had been astonished at the verdict and came to the conclusion that the jury had viewed Leese as a stupid crank with honest convictions who should not be convicted of the serious charge of seditious libel . |
| 6 | Again , a person charged with attempted larceny can not be convicted of attempting to obtain by false pretences ( Rex v. Gallagher ( 1929 ) 21 Cr.App.R. 172 ) . |
| 7 | Provided that a person shall not be convicted of such an offence if he proves that the contravention in question took place without his knowledge or consent . |
| 8 | ‘ … a person shall not be convicted of rape or indecent assault upon his spouse , or an attempt to commit , or assault with intent to commit rape or indecent assault upon his spouse ( except as an accessory ) unless the alleged offence consisted of , was preceded or accompanied by , or was associated with — ; ( a ) assault occasioning actual bodily harm , or threat of such an assault upon the spouse ; ( b ) an act of gross indecency , or threat of such an act , against the spouse ; ( c ) an act calculated seriously and substantially to humiliate the spouse ; or ( d ) threat of the commission of a criminal act against the person . ’ |
| 9 | If the accused is charged under one part of s.16(2) he can not be convicted of an offence under the other paragraph : Aston & Hadley [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1584 ( CA ) . |
| 10 | Though not resolving all problems , the Court of Appeal in Shelton ( 1986 ) 83 Cr App R 379 held : ( a ) if there is doubt as to whether the appropriate charge is theft or handling , both can be charged ; ( b ) the jury should be directed that a handler may also be a thief but he can not be convicted of both in relation to the same property at the same time ; and ( c ) if the jury can not agree whether theft or handling has been proved , the jury should be discharged . |
| 11 | If the accused is charged with s.47 , he can not be convicted of common assault : Mearns ( 1990 ) 91 Cr App R 312 ( CA ) and Savage ( HL ) . |
| 12 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |
| 13 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 14 | Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound . |
| 15 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 16 | Professor Rhys , of Cardiff Business School , points out that the Essex plant is in an area of low unemployment and that the same could not be said of the other big plants . |
| 17 | The same can not be said of Saatchi & Saatchi , once the darling of the stock market and counting the Conservative Party as one of its clients . |
| 18 | That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine . |
| 19 | Erica herself was entirely honest , and worked hard for her causes , but the same could not be said of some of her associates . |
| 20 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 21 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
| 22 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 23 | Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often . |
| 24 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
| 25 | The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately . |
| 26 | The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal . |
| 27 | Some commentators have pointed out that , as can not be said of the Cadbury Committee 's report on the financial aspects of corporate governance , much legislation would be needed to implement the Green Paper 's proposals . |
| 28 | The Government 's policy on television in mainland Tanzania could be seen as anti-elitist ; the same could not be said of its policy on the press . |
| 29 | The senior staff of the TANU press felt that , while they might not always be in agreement with everything the Government and its various ministries did or said , they were committed to its goals ; the same , they believed , could not be said of the Standard . |
| 30 | If Marx 's humanitarianism contains a certain ambiguity , the same can not be said of Lenin . |