Example sentences of "could not [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Documenta ’ was born to take stock of a situation that official art had consistently overlooked , in the days when , for instance , Pollock and Giacometti could not yet be found in museums . |
| 3 | On the other hand , William of Poitiers imputed to Guy Geoffrey , Thibaud , and Geoffrey Martel irritation at being obliged to perform military service when summoned — which suggests acceptance of their duty ; Orderic 's words imply that Fulk the Young clearly recognized the dependent status of Anjou in 1106 when he did homage to Philip I. The differences of opinion on a point that later lawyers were to regard as fundamental to the monarchy 's position must be taken as proof that , for the great at least , the equation between a fidelis and a vassus could not yet be taken for granted . |
| 4 | True , Dr Clarke might well reply , but the Treatise was an attempt to resolve theoretically an urgent political problem : the same could not plausibly be said of the General Theory . |
| 5 | The seller delivered copra cake so contaminated with castor beans that it " could not properly be described as copra cake at all " . |
| 6 | Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " . |
| 7 | This obviously reintroduces the scepticism which Descartes had hoped to avoid , and it increases when Malebranche goes on to argue that our perceptions of a material world could not anyway be caused by that world even if there were one , but must be caused by God . |
| 8 | If anything could not easily be covered through this thematic approach , it was covered discretely , through a story , or watching a video , or in a separate activity . |
| 9 | Although these theories could not easily be deployed in the ‘ real ’ world , they did serve a valuable purpose as condensations of patterns of thought about the media . |
| 10 | It thus came about that , during the process of a boy 's adjustment to public school , two very powerful and not very compatible needs — the need for power and the need for love — were grossly stimulated , in an environment where their satisfaction could not easily be assigned to the usual separate compartments of life . |
| 11 | However , a colleague looking at these OSUs in relation to their cultural impact , saw there were many aspects of a qualitative nature which could not easily be expressed in fiscal terms ( Adams 1988 : 11 ) : |
| 12 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 13 | He told conference delegates he had been asked by the BNFL board and the Government to continue in his post for a short period after March 31 as his successor — John Guinness , currently Permanent Secretary in the DoE — could not easily be released from that post until after the general election . |
| 14 | Yet this wave of social legislation could not easily be reconciled with the tenets of classical liberalism . |
| 15 | In any case the priorities of his government could not easily be reconciled in the context of British policy-making , let alone in conjunction with the United States . |
| 16 | Once the vegetational cover of the hard schists was destroyed they could not easily be restored to cultivation . |
| 17 | Nixon , one of the fiercest anti-Communists and " cold warriors " of the 1940s and 1950s , knew that he could not easily be accused of being " soft " on communism when he tried to lessen tension with Russia and with Communist China . |
| 18 | Right-wingers in Shamir 's Cabinet were understood to regard the pace of settlement building in the occupied territories as crucial in creating facts on the ground which could not easily be eliminated by developments at the diplomatic level [ see also p. 38550 ] . |
| 19 | But damages could not normally be obtained for an innocent misrepresentation . |
| 20 | While as settlement within the greenbelt , development could not normally be permitted on D thirty nine and D forty , as these are outside the built area in the terms of Policy G B Three , which we have oft considered at erm this enquiry . |
| 21 | ( A suggestion made by Alasdair MacIntyre that emotivism is promising only as an account of the use of ethical words in a society lacking shared values could not reasonably be extended to the attitudinism I have described . ) |
| 22 | If so , an ethical statement made by me would be true , and could not reasonably be challenged by others , if I have the feelings in question . |
| 23 | The court found that , looked at in substance and fact , the two Medical Defence Union members on the General Council were not accusers as well as judges and that they could not reasonably be suspected of bias . |
| 24 | ( iv ) If the right to sue in libel should be extended to a local government authority it could not logically be withheld from any government authority having separate legal personality . |
| 25 | Millions of trade unionists could not simply be represented by the casting of a block vote once a year . |
| 26 | Decision-making tended to be a complex process which involved bargaining between a plurality of different actors , and even in each of the specific policy areas the resulting decisions could not simply be seen as the result of the preferences of one elite group or actor . |
| 27 | Mr Lamont said the problem could not simply be blamed on recession ‘ and it can not be reduced simply by stimulating demand ’ . |
| 28 | New sentences containing more than one piece of information from the same set could not reliably be distinguished from sentences which had been heard before . |
| 29 | Judicial obedience to the statute in such ( extreme and unlikely ) circumstances could not coherently be justified in terms of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty since the statute would plainly undermine the fundamental political principle which the doctrine serves to protect . |
| 30 | So you could not just be talking about the first premium . |