Example sentences of "not finally [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Haines published New Lords , New Laws ( 1674 ) in his own defence , but his excommunication by Caffyn was not finally overturned by the General Baptist Assembly until 1680 .
2 With Australia , Argentina , England and Japan having publicly asserted support for South Africa , the Wales case , put by Denzil Lloyd and Glanmor Griffiths , was not finally scuppered until New Zealand , irresepective of their own bid , decided that they , too , would opt for South Africa in 1995 .
3 In fact it was not finally completed within English until the post-war period , with Bateson once again a prominent influence .
4 In 1970 the ideal of free and equal competition was actually far from realised : the movement of people , goods and capital around the Six faced numerous impediments , and genuinely ‘ free ’ movement on the EC was not finally planned until the 1990s .
5 Five years later the Football Association adopted numbering in the Cup final , using numbers 1 to 22 , but Chapman was not finally vindicated until 1939 — five years after his death — when the League made it compulsory , primarily for the benefit of spectators .
6 This procedure , which was known as silencing , was referred to in a case in 1741 , Hughes v. Science ( 1741 ) 2 Atk. 173 , and was not finally repealed as spent or unnecessary till 1948 : Statute Law Revision Act 1948 , section 1 , Schedule 1 .
7 The site was not finally cleared until 1846 .
8 Even if Sonauto had not finally decided to stay in racing and Ruggia had spent the summer at home , his contract would have demanded that Sonauto pay his wages for the 1991 season .
9 These obstacles were not finally overcome until May 1944 ; in June the Allies liberated Rome .
10 The case for British bases in the Middle East was strengthened by such calculations , but the doubts of Attlee and others were not finally overcome until June 1947 .
11 The play reconstitutes Mary Frith as Moll Cutpurse , who in turn is used to reconstitute a social order while remaining on its margins — reformed and reforming but not finally incorporated ; hence Moll 's stern yet haunting parting injunction to the assembled ‘ gentlemen ’ of the final scene : ‘ I pursue no pity : /Follow the law ’ ( 252 — 3 ) .
12 His warnings were not finally heeded until 1953 when England fell to the Hungarians at Wembley .
13 The financial constraints were initially rather phantom-like ( in the first year , for example , there was prolonged and somewhat inconclusive discussion with the Ministry about the budget and it was not finally authorised until the financial year was over ! ) , but the physical constraints were none the less effective in limiting the industry 's expenditure .
14 Mr. Thorpe had available to him a quicker way to secure the referral that he was seeking to the unit in Birmingham , so the process was not finally concluded in north Devon .
15 Even then , old habits died hard , and at Wakefield , Yorkshire , one of the most important grain markets outside London , the milling soke was not finally abolished until 1853 .
16 Though the duties were reduced throughout the first half of the 19th century , they were not finally abolished until 1861 .
17 Although the patriarchate was annulled and restored again on several occasions during the Turkish occupation it was not finally abolished until 1766 .
18 This zone , which at its greatest extent ran from Transylvania to the Adriatic , following the line of the Danube and Sava rivers , was not finally abolished until 1881 .
19 This was the beginning of the Militärgrenze system , which was not finally abolished until 1881 .
20 Curiously the decision to build the necessary lock flight at Watford was not finally taken until October 1813 ; work began early in 1814 .
21 New Statutes were not finally approved until November of the following year , after much discussion .
22 There remained uncertainty as to whether the warring militias , particularly the forces led by Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid , would respect the presence of a UN force to oversee a major relief operation , as had been proposed since April ( but still not finally approved ) .
23 an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’
24 Furthermore , the farm worker has generally been among the last to receive citizenship rights granted to the rest of the population — the shadow of the workhouse was not finally removed until 1936 , the Rent Act was not extended to agricultural dwellings until 1976 and even today agricultural legislation manages to override certain of the conditions of the Truck Acts .
25 The argument of counsel to the contrary effect and , indeed , some of the judgments — e.g. the reference by Pollock C.B. , at p. 91 , to the plaintiff as a ‘ quasi-corporation ’ — seem to reflect a confusion of thought about identifying the company with its members that was not finally laid to rest until the decision of the House of Lords in Salomon v. Salomon and Co .
26 Indeed Franco-Russian disputes on this issue flared up briefly once more in the 1760s and were not finally laid to rest until 1772 .
27 The marriage is not finally dissolved until the decree is made absolute ; thus , transfers of property in the period between the decree nisi and the decree absolute from husband to wife incur no inheritance tax liability .
28 ( 13 ) For the purposes of any proceedings at the quarterly meeting in March in the final year of office of members of a licensing board which are not finally disposed of before the expiry in that year of the term of office of the members , the members of the licensing board in office at the date of the said meeting shall , notwithstanding such expiry , be deemed to constitute the licensing board .
29 The decision went against the Harringtons , but they still refused to capitulate , presumably confident of ducal backing , and the matter was not finally settled until 1475 , when Hornby was confirmed to the daughters and hence to the Stanleys .
30 At the time of writing , the dust has still not finally settled on this matter as the Catholic Education Council has not abandoned the struggle to save De La Salle College of Higher Education , one of those scheduled for closure .
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