Example sentences of "could not [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , if the court holds that a particular decision was unreasonable , that decision could not lawfully be made again . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Not only throughout Britain , but in many parts of Europe and in the New World , it was widely accepted that if a person succeeded in erecting a dwelling on common or waste land between sunset and sunrise and lighting a fire in it he could not lawfully be dispossessed . |
| 4 | During a visit to Beirut in 1942 , de Gaulle announced that , despite French promises to the contrary , elections could not yet be held . |
| 5 | A spokesman for Kent police said yesterday that clothing from the body had been shown to Lisa 's parents and close associates , but he stressed the identity could not yet be confirmed . |
| 6 | Socialism could not yet be built and they would inevitably disappoint proletarian expectations . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The petitioner took the view that involuntary agency could not properly be distinguished either from notification au parquet , to which the authors of the Convention were clearly opposed , or from such devices as service upon a State official , typically the Secretary of State , permitted in various United States jurisdictions . |
| 11 | It could not properly be interpreted as leaving a gap where that unusual situation arose . |
| 12 | Dr Laternser immediately rose to protest that the witness had never been in the German army and therefore could not properly be asked or answer any such questions . |
| 13 | The seller delivered copra cake so contaminated with castor beans that it " could not properly be described as copra cake at all " . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Germans were resentful of France 's post-war attempts to keep them under close control , and it could not automatically be expected that they would agree to join European institutions . |
| 17 | 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 ) : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners . |
| 20 | A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control . |
| 21 | The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives . |
| 22 | A fleet of 60 French and Spanish ships could not easily be concentrated , and it would have to fight in the Channel against an English fleet of 45 of the line … |
| 23 | This staggering figure could not easily be explained away . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Unlike coffee , tea could not easily be grown profitably on smallholdings . |
| 26 | A Dragon-Dictate system was evaluated ; the results showed that speech recognition was suitable in circumstances where a keyboard could not easily be used , but was not yet sufficiently reliable to replace keyboard entry . |
| 27 | For instance , if support staff can be recruited locally in the new site , firms may restrict eligibility for relocation assistance to senior employees or to those with specialist skills who could not easily be replaced . |
| 28 | Sagramoso City itself was heavily guarded by skyward laser batteries , and these could not easily be neutralised . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied . |