Example sentences of "not [be] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This plant exports the chips to Japan for processing but the scheme to replace the original forest with plantation to sustain the plant indefinitely has foundered because it has not been demonstrated that timber-growing is a worthwhile economic activity that does not threaten ownership of the land . |
| 2 | Had it not been realised that it was the work of a humble man , this poem would be thought a sacrilege and an example of striking pride and arrogance , but instead it is an invitation to extreme exaltation of spirit for it comes from a man who has submerged his ego in the All . |
| 3 | However , it had not been realised that we process speech as much by our expectations as by our sensations : it is easy for us to hear the same acoustic signal as ‘ It 's easy to recognise speech ’ or ‘ It 's easy to wreck a nice beach ’ according to context . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it has not been argued that the Secretary of State 's decision on the tariff could properly be challenged if he adopted the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice where this differed from that of the trial judge . |
| 5 | When children have not been warned that their parent is going to ignore them rather than shout at them the rate of their difficult behaviour may temporarily increase ( Sajwaj and Dillon 1976 ) . |
| 6 | On appeal following conviction it was submitted , inter alia , that he should have been informed of the calls from the solicitor , and given a choice as to whether he wanted one or not , particularly as he had not been advised that the authority of the custody officer for the delayed notification to his son had been lifted ( see Jones ( Sally ) February 2 , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | The allegations were serious , and it had not been supposed that the children would be allowed home with no further action . |
| 8 | If being Maori were a significant variable this might arise because of an inherent effect of being Maori or because there are other confounding variables that have not been considered that could explain the difference between Maori and non-Maori children . |
| 9 | Dr Fenech-Adami said last night : ‘ On the facts as known to us , it has not been proved that the suitcase carrying the bomb originated in Malta . |
| 10 | The case has not been proved that job evaluation and performance-related pay can be applied to nursing . |
| 11 | Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ . |
| 12 | Indeed , I am not absolutely sure that it has not been proved that in terms of pure cost-effectiveness a space such as a 4 cm double is the best you can buy — the only trouble is that you need an awful lot of them . |
| 13 | It 's not been proved that children living near power cables are more likely to develop leukaemia . |
| 14 | A Mr E. Friend complained ( as did Mr Tombs ) that he had not been informed that his application was unsuccessful . |
| 15 | I repeat that , at this stage , Mr. Speaker 's Office has not been informed that a Minister wants to make a statement . |
| 16 | Stirling had not been told that such a unit was operating in the target area , despite the fact that its presence might stir up the enemy . |
| 17 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 18 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 19 | For example , if A tells B something in confidence and B ( without A 's permission ) passes the information on to C , who has not been told that it is confidential and the circumstances are such that an obligation of confidence can not be imputed to C , then C will be able to use the information freely although B himself can be prevented from using the information or divulging it further . |
| 20 | The court refused to issue an order of mandamus on the ground that it had not been established that such a blanket directive had been issued and that it was within his rights to deploy his forces as he wished . |
| 21 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 22 | In the result I have not been persuaded that any doubt has been cast upon principles which are soundly directed as being both desirable and reasonable and which furthermore have for long been firmly established by authority . |
| 23 | However , we have not been persuaded that it would be right to extend the special provision which has been made for the infected haemophiliacs . |
| 24 | On finance , Heseltine conceded that the public had " not been persuaded that the [ community ] charge is fair " , and he stated that it would be replaced by a new local tax under which there would be a single bill for each household comprising two essential elements : the number of adults living there and the value of the property . |
| 25 | Plenty of motor cars went in and out through the Pembroke and Gillingham Gates but it has not been suggested that there was any real night-time disturbance from traffic using the dockyard . |
| 26 | It has not been explained how they were able to do so without taking any instructions from Mrs. Steed , but it has not been suggested that Mrs. Steed authorised them to do so . |
| 27 | However , they have not been briefed that in this case the drop zone will be changed at the last minute . |
| 28 | It had not been shown that the Special Commissioner had misdirected himself or that he had erred in law or that he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion . |
| 29 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 30 | The appeal was decided on the comparatively short point that although undue influence had been exercised by the husband upon the wife , it had not been shown that the transactions were to the manifest disadvantage of the wife , in which circumstances the court held that the wife could not be relieved from the effect of the charges on her home . |