Example sentences of "not [prep] reasonable [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A counter-notice which must be served within 21 days after service of the Notice , should only be given where it is required that the party whose statement it is sought to admit , should be called as a witness , but there are witnesses who can not , or should not be called , that is if dead , beyond the seas , or unfit to attend , or who can not after reasonable diligence be identified , or can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection ; consequently in respect of all those persons , the opposing party is not entitled to serve a counter-notice requiring such person to be called unless he can contend that the person can , or should be called . |
| 2 | If it is not of reasonable competence , no female will join him . |
| 3 | It is no defence for the officer to say he does not know and can not with reasonable diligence find out who the driver was . |
| 4 | ‘ … it shall be defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know , and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained , that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods . ’ |
| 5 | In any proceedings for an offence under this Act of supplying or offering to supply goods to which a false trade description is applied it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained , that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods . |
| 6 | Under the special defence , the issue is whether the defendant did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have discovered , the false trade description . |
| 7 | Alcuin 's opinion in 796 , as expressed in a letter to Archbishop Aethelheard following the death of Offa , was that the unity of the Church in England had been destroyed not by reasonable consideration but by lust for power ; and in 803 , when Canterbury 's rights were being restored at a council at Clofesho , Aethelheard pronounced that ‘ tyrannical power ’ had presumed to diminish Canterbury 's honour , the pope having been deceived into granting a pallium to the bishop of Lichfield by deception and lies . |