Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [be] considered " in BNC.

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31 But because exploration costs represent barely a fifth the total North Sea spending of about £10 billion , this may not be considered too heavy a price to pay for an attempt to switch activity towards developing some of the finds already made or maximising the returns from fields already in production .
32 But Lord Lane said there were factors making the case wholly exceptional , and in all the circumstances the sentence could not be considered unduly lenient .
33 This reaction attributed evolution to pure chance and held the opinion that complex animals could not be considered better adapted to their environments than more lowly forms : all represented degrees of specialization .
34 Sean and Michael O'Neil could not be considered as such .
35 The Severn could not be considered a complete failure , however , for from it was developed the very successful Saro A.27 London flying-boat .
36 PAUL BURNELL the London Scottish prop who had played in 25 of his country 's previous 27 internationals , could not be considered for Scotland 's tour to Australia because of a severe knee injury sustained in the Cardiff match against Wales .
37 If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war .
38 1987 ) the court held that the police had wrongly considered the theft of 28 dogs owned by a Hunt as a serious arrestable offence as the loss to the members of the Hunt could not be considered a serious financial loss .
39 The Court of Appeal held , however , that there was no partnership in existence , since no business was being carried on by the defendant and X ; on the contrary , the goods had been ordered in preparation for the formation of a company , and such transactions could not be considered as ‘ carrying on a business ’ .
40 Both judges expressed the view that the payments could not be considered to have been voluntary .
41 ‘ From the case cited [ Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 ] in the course of the argument it is shown that the principle has been laid down that , where one exacts money from another and it turns out that although acquiesced in for years such exaction is illegal , the money may be recovered as money had and received , since such payment could not be considered as voluntary so as to preclude its recovery .
42 For example there were evident differences in lexical incidence between items which had been thought to belong to the same phonological set ; get and never in contemporary Belfast vernacular did not pattern in the same way as items such as wet and wedding , and so could not be considered as tokens of the variable ( Ε ) ( see further 6.7 ) .
43 She shuddered — for if there were she really must find them out and write of them , or her articles could not be considered authentic .
44 Of the high-ranking journals , Nature is a general scientific journal , and could not be considered a ‘ core ’ geological journal .
45 China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively .
46 Broadly , apart from the incorporation of East Germany following German unification [ see p. 37659 ] , the Commission 's attitude was that any expansion of the EC 's membership could not be considered until after the implementation of the single internal market , scheduled for the end of 1992 .
47 It soon became apparent that the whole report could not be considered in a single meeting and it was suggested that another meeting be arranged to continue with it .
48 Of the high-ranking journals , Nature is a general scientific journal , and could not be considered a ‘ core ’ geological journal .
49 As such , they could not be considered as autonomous agents .
50 At the time of the greenbelt enquiry , an extension beyond six miles of the greenbelt could not be considered because a general revision of the county structure plan was not envisaged .
51 Meanwhile the British began to drop hints to American diplomats to the effect that , while they wished to remain a Middle Eastern power , this could not be considered a certainty without some assurance of American support .
52 He could not be considered a priority case , but officer Ms Jayne Gardener managed to find the bed and breakfast place in Middlesbrough .
53 The Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , said Morrison could not be considered for the Fiji Sevens starting today on account of the knee problem which limited his training to light running this week .
54 Gassendi does not develop the thought that ‘ the labours of the most outstanding philosophers … need not be considered useless just because they have not produced an Aristotelian knowledge for us so far ; for they have produced another sort which is more true and useful , namely knowledge from experience and the appearance of things . ’
55 This need not be considered ‘ normal ’ or inevitable .
56 This , says Lewontin , is an example of negative allometry , and need not be considered adaptive .
57 Moreover , they need not be considered in terms of function , as evidenced in this statement by Chomsky ( I968 : 62 ) :
58 In the circumstances this question of construction need not be considered .
59 ( There are technical points relating to the charge that need not be considered here . )
60 Apart from the need to provide the necessary explanation about each trial , they need not be considered substantially differently from other activities of the health service .
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