Example sentences of "be justify " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my view , to have 32 seeds , even in the men 's singles where there is far greater depth of talent than among the women , can not possibly be justified . |
| 2 | Such optimism may still prove to be justified : but the bets are much riskier , now that China 's leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes . |
| 3 | How can this implication be justified when the last decade has witnessed a real growth in public spending , particularly on health and society security , coupled with an increase in overall taxation ? |
| 4 | The downgradings in the sector may be justified on some housebuilders , but others look severely undervalued at current levels . |
| 5 | They were sui generis , and were to be justified by considerations of policy . |
| 6 | Any decision that preparation and presentation should be separate would have to be justified to the public and be open in the last resort to judicial review . |
| 7 | The Irish Director of Public Prosecutions , Eamonn Barnes , said in a statement that the evidence provided by the British Crown Prosecution Service was ‘ not sufficient for the purpose and accordingly a prosecution could not be justified ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said . |
| 9 | He wondered if art could continue to exist or be justified if it left behind its primitive purposes with the result that aesthetic objects became direct objects of attention . |
| 10 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 11 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 12 | It is the duty of editors to ensure that inquiries into people 's private lives are not undertaken , and information or pictures about their private lives are not published , unless inquiry or publication can be justified as being necessary in the public interest . |
| 13 | Their use of subterfuge can be justified only to obtain material which ought to be published in the public interest and could not be obtained by other means . |
| 14 | Mr Bush , a former US diplomat in Beijing , has countered by hinting that when his traducers were fully acquainted with the facts , his actions would be justified — and typically he has been angered by the ‘ personal ’ nature of the criticism . |
| 15 | The threat of more rises is apparent in a promise by BR to review by 1991 whether changes in quality targets can be justified , ‘ taking account of passengers ’ willingness to pay for them . ’ |
| 16 | Around 3,500 of Britain 's industrial processes will have to be justified to the inspectorate for the pollution they put into the environment on land , into the air and into water . |
| 17 | Mr Mulcahy 's 22 per cent figure could be justified only by including rentals of new TVs , video recorders and other hired electrical equipment . |
| 18 | Can this be justified ? |
| 19 | This means that if a ruler 's commands did not deserve obedience , resistance to them might be justified . |
| 20 | Certainly , no present authority could be justified by appeal to any such explicit consent . |
| 21 | Before the next match , the selectors debated long and hard over the England captaincy , the problem being that Emburey 's form had declined and his place in the team could hardly be justified ; their solution was to drop him and appoint Chris Cowdrey in his place , whose enthusiastic style of leadership had taken an ordinary Kent side to the top of the table . |
| 22 | ‘ We … know ’ , says Paul , ‘ that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ … because by works of the law shall no one be justified ’ ( Galatians 2.16 ) . |
| 23 | Be on the look-out when Pelagianism sets in : ‘ Thou shalt be justified by good works ’ , by doing the vicar 's mall , by the way you read the lessons , by the work you do towards the Christmas bazaar ! |
| 24 | Whether or not in our time parents may be said to be justified by the sad statistics of the permissive society , it is certain that in the nineteenth century , parents had little option because of the sad statistics of mortality among children . |
| 25 | Can this be justified by reference to the magnitude of the harm resulting , i.e. death ? |
| 26 | Can these derogations from principle be justified ? |
| 27 | These apparent exceptions can be justified as involving the exercise of a legal right , in the case of chastisement or correction , or as needed in the public interest , in the other cases . |
| 28 | This might be justified as a means of signalling the connection between drunken driving and fatal accidents . |
| 29 | But all those changes could be justified out of respect for the principle of freedom of choice in sexual matters , particularly where the enquiry is so straightforward . |
| 30 | A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads . |