Example sentences of "[det] [noun] could not be " in BNC.
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| 31 | This thing could not be changed . |
| 32 | But because the feoffees were the legal owners , the lands could not be taken into wardship if the grantor died leaving an heir under age , nor could the crown require the payment of a relief when the heir entered upon his inheritance , and lands held in trust in this way could not be forfeited for treason . |
| 33 | At that time money made in this way could not be touched . |
| 34 | Justice Antonin Scalia , who wrote the opinion , said the St Paul law was flawed because it was selective ; some thoughts could not be afforded less protection than others . |
| 35 | But there was no reason why this imbalance could not be sustained indefinitely . |
| 36 | Unfortunately some measurements could not be made at the time of the growth room trials , owing to maintenance work . |
| 37 | This did not imply that interested groups acting in this context could not be effective , as , for example , the resistance to Khrushchev 's proposed educational reforms showed . |
| 38 | The wording of the section suggests that this power could not be used to restrict the right to inspect or obtain copies , for example by requiring good cause to be shown thus preventing share registers being used as ‘ sucker-lists , ’ but is intended to ensure that the matter is reproduced in a way which is as ‘ user-friendly ’ as possible without imposing undue burdens on the company . |
| 39 | This fact could not be concealed any more than I could conceal , when a friend invited me to stay with her during the holidays in Yorkshire , that my parents could n't afford the train fare . |
| 40 | This clay could not be reclaimed because of contamination and the waste and mess did not help in the integration of TNT principles . |
| 41 | That help could not be provided without the fund-raising efforts of the Association members together with the work of all those who sustain our membership and the comradeship of the Association . |
| 42 | The Director of Public Prosecutions brings this application for judicial review of these decisions of the single justice on Friday , 16 February ; the first , declining to deal with the issue of the alleged breach of bail condition by Mr. Bell on the ground that that issue could not be resolved by a single justice of the peace but required a court consisting of at least two justices , and the second , to adjourn the hearing of the alleged breach of condition to a court sitting on Monday , 19 February , and to remand Mr. Bell in custody in the intervening period . |
| 43 | ‘ From the case cited [ Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 ] in the course of the argument it is shown that the principle has been laid down that , where one exacts money from another and it turns out that although acquiesced in for years such exaction is illegal , the money may be recovered as money had and received , since such payment could not be considered as voluntary so as to preclude its recovery . |
| 44 | Such legitimation could not be provided by other than a high status firm . |
| 45 | It was agreed that library support for such work could not be provided on short notice , and that the journal collection of the University should be used , at least initially . |
| 46 | The Court of Appeal held , however , that there was no partnership in existence , since no business was being carried on by the defendant and X ; on the contrary , the goods had been ordered in preparation for the formation of a company , and such transactions could not be considered as ‘ carrying on a business ’ . |
| 47 | The only ground on which such a right could be defeated , according to Dworkin , would be a competing right advanced by another individual , and even then one such right could not be taken automatically to subordinate another . |
| 48 | And plagiarism is often the result of an admiration for the wording of the original — a feeling that such ideas could not be put better . |
| 49 | She argued that , if she could show that what was regarded as normal behaviour in the United States in fact varies from one society to another , then it followed that such behaviour could not be the result of people 's biological characteristics but rather of their culture . |
| 50 | Such authority could not be shared with , nor alienated to anyone ; the notion was already fully developed under Philip the Fair by 1294 : ‘ the king of France is subject to no one ’ , wrote Guillaume de Nogaret , expressing the doctrine which could make vassals subjects and was absolute . |
| 51 | While the widespread building of town walls in the second half of the fourteenth century provided a measure of safety against marauding forces ( even against the Companies ) , such fortifications could not be ignored by an enemy bent upon conquest . |
| 52 | In the opinion of Melanie Clore there is no reason to believe that such prices could not be repeated at the present time . |
| 53 | He said : ‘ It seems to me that business could not function properly if such information could not be kept confidential . ’ |
| 54 | In reply Roy Hattersley supported the call for the immediate suppression of street violence , but warned that the roots of such riots could not be dealt with until all people felt they had a stake in British society ( ibid. : cols. 1407–9 ) |
| 55 | Such treatment could not be condoned but it must also be borne in mind that an increasingly dependent elderly person may be a heavy burden on a carer who has other family commitments including children , or who also may be obliged to continue paid employment ; and the stress on the carer is considerable ( Tyler , 1987 ) . |
| 56 | Marx argued , quite correctly , that any broad change in the property relations of a society would involve sharp political , if not military , struggles and that the course of such struggles could not be legislated in advance according to the blueprints of some would-be social reformer . |
| 57 | If there are exclusively private events , in the sense that they are in principle , and not just empirically , inaccessible to more than one observer , it might be argued that such events could not be intelligibly claimed , let alone shown to be , subject to any laws , and this means that no rational explanatory model could be constructed for them . |
| 58 | Michigan Department of Mental Health , in which an inmate was offered the choice between experimental surgery with the possibility of release and continued incarceration , and the Court held that consent could not be given by an involuntarily detained mental patient . |
| 59 | Both organizations added to the ferment of discussion about social problems , offering new ideas , reviving in new forms long muted arguments that capitalism itself created poverty and hence that capitalism could not be ‘ moralized ’ but must be eradicated . |
| 60 | These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet . |