Example sentences of "was not [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence relied heavily on the legal precedent of Goodchild in the House of Lords in 1978 , where Lord Diplock ruled that it was not illegal to possess naturally occurring substances even if they contained a controlled drug . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 3 | But where thousands of claimants did not receive repayments to which they were entitled because of errors of local officials the Court of Appeal held that the Minister was not obliged to carry out a fullscale review of files . |
| 4 | His reward was that he was the only male member of the family who was not obliged to form part of the firing squad . |
| 5 | This was also rejected on the ground that the Commission had wide and flexible discretion and was not obliged to put every piece of material to all interested parties . |
| 6 | As an ex-naval coxswain I was not obliged to take the Mountbatten course but did in fact take a refresher course at the Command Navigation Centre , HMS Raleigh at Torpoint which , under the auspices of a Lieut Commander fresh from training at Dartmouth Naval College , I found very arduous . |
| 7 | In his famous allocution , Pope Pius declared that , morally , a doctor was not obliged to continue treatment , nor was a patient obliged to accept it when such treatment involved extraordinary medical measures . |
| 8 | A wife who was entitled to a lump sum on the ‘ clean break ’ principle was not obliged to deal with it in any particular fashion . |
| 9 | Although the ANAP administration , which held 292 seats in the 450-seat parliament , was not obliged to go to the polls until November 1992 , the party was troubled by internal divisions and waning local electoral support . |
| 10 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 11 | ‘ Declaration granted that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged , the Director of the Serious Fraud Office was required to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 12 | It followed that while the Home Secretary was free to take account of the terms of the Convention , he was not obliged to do so and that the terms of the Convention were irrelevant to the court 's decision . |
| 13 | The matter would have been resolved if the taxpayer had appealed , but he was not obliged to do so . |
| 14 | I would also hold that he was not obliged to do so in discretionary life sentence cases . |
| 15 | Under the terms of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance , Japan was not obliged to enter the war as a belligerent , but Foreign Minister Kató urged the benefits to Japan of joining in , including possible gains in East Asia . |
| 16 | On Nov. 7 the Court further ruled that the La Taquina brewery was not obliged to pay the increased tax . |
| 17 | Everything about her flowed , particularly her long luxurious auburn hair — that is , when she was not obliged to roll it up in order not to fall foul of the army authorities . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 19 | To begin with , the reality of Scotland 's position in Europe meant that she was not vulnerable to attack from countries other than England . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps in the end she was not sorry to go . ’ |
| 21 | She was not sorry to see the back of Lazar Farm this time . |
| 22 | So I was not sorry to see them go . |
| 23 | One was not sorry to bid farewell to Portugal and its rhythm of misery and fiesta , the docks , the Agent 's clueless stare . |
| 24 | Meredith was not sorry to turn back . |
| 25 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 26 | We felt it was not appropriate to return the miserly £300 grant from HQ to them . |
| 27 | The Commission communication of 19 July 1989 on a Community framework for access to fishing quotas was not appropriate to resolve that conflict , because it did not tackle the problem of the effective exploitation of the catch quotas allocated to the member states . |
| 28 | Mr Chope said that it was not appropriate to discuss Westminster security , but the agency already contracted out most building work , including work with a high security content for the Defence Ministry . |
| 29 | Lindblom was mainly interested in the problems of national governments and explaining why it was not appropriate to adopt overall planning models at that level . |
| 30 | Although all Colleges that were within the control of the LEA had broadly similar organisation structures , at a detailed level there were significant differences ( ie in structural arrangements and in the numbers and expertise of staff ) , and it was not appropriate to make detailed proposals for individual Colleges at this stage . |