Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it [was/were] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 2 | I lay there realising that it was not true , but also realising something else . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiffs ' appeal from Wright J. 's order , holding that it was not open to the court to devise protection in substitution for the defendants ' privilege against self-incrimination , and that the plaintiffs ' claim was neither proprietary nor within section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 |
| 4 | In Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 it was held that the defendants ' limitation of liability was unreasonable and therefore unenforceable under the Act ; a decisive factor was that in previous cases the defendants had settled claims without seeking to rely on the limitation clause , impliedly recognising that it was not reasonable . |
| 5 | MIH contended , however , that even if the agreement was not strictly in the proper form , Mr Gillespie , by his subsequent actings , was barred from asserting that it was not enforceable . |
| 6 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |