Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be justified [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blames speculators and traders for the shock waves and says the surge in prices ca n't be justified by the oil crisis . |
| 2 | What stopped me in my tracks was a sentence reading , ‘ The dung beetle program really can not be justified on the grounds that it is cheaper than a horse ’ . |
| 3 | But conventionalism can not be justified on the sole ground that surprise is inefficient or undesirable in these ways , because conventionalism does not protect against surprise as well as a simpler and more straightforward theory of adjudication would . |
| 4 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 5 | A fortiori , the requirement for all owners to reside and be domiciled in the United Kingdom can not be justified in the light of the aims of the quota system . |
| 6 | The order of Waite J. was wholly inconsistent with the law as so stated and can not be justified upon the basis of any authority known to me . |
| 7 | A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads . |
| 8 | Consequently , whatever the objectives pursued by the national legislature , such legislation can not be justified by the existence of a Community system of national quotas . |
| 9 | On this statement of principle , I wish to observe that officious intervention can not be justified by the principle of necessity . |
| 10 | This points strongly to the decreasing profitability of upland sheep farming in that the labour and machinery costs of maintaining the drainage system can not be justified against the potential income from the land . |