Example sentences of "not be [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless it was held that any false indication given by the retailer could not be said to be due to the act or default of Cadbury since the retailer could quite easily have compared the weights and prices of his existing stock and the new bars to see if the label ‘ Extra value ’ was justified .
2 In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect .
3 Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population .
4 That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering .
5 These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet .
6 Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific .
7 The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business .
8 Nevertheless , all these matters are only indicative , and can not be said to be conclusive .
9 This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves .
10 If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome .
11 The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts .
12 All suggestions are given in good faith and for general help and guidance but since detail may vary with different roofs they can not be assumed to be suitable for every application .
13 What are the implications for the CAPM if the market could not be assumed to be perfect ?
14 Comparison of quantitative data between the tw groups was performed by Student 's t test when normal distribution of the data could be assumed , and by Mann-Whitney U test when distrubiton could not be assumed to be normal ( serum and amylase values ) .
15 Likewise they implicitly assume that over the medium-term ( 3-10 years ) , the supply side can not be assumed to be constant .
16 ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed .
17 The British in India had from the beginning of the nineteenth century seen clearly that so unnatural a phenomenon as the government of that teeming subcontinent by the parliamentary electorate of the British Isles could not be destined to be permanent .
18 For these purposes a settlement shall not be deemed to be irrevocable ( by virtue of TA 1988 , s665(1) ) if its terms provide : ( a ) for the payment to the settlor or , during the life of the settlor , to the wife or husband of the settlor for his or her benefit , or for the application for the benefit of the settlor or , during the life of the settlor , of the wife or husband of the settlor , of any income or assets in any circumstances whatsoever during the life of the settlor 's child ; or ( b ) for the determination of the settlement by the act or on the default of any person ; or ( c ) for the payment of any penalty by the settlor in the event of his failing to comply with the provisions of the settlement .
19 Under s665(2) , a settlement shall not be deemed to be revocable by reason only : ( a ) that it contains a provision under which any income or assets will or may become payable to or applicable for the benefit of the settlor , or the wife or husband of the settlor , on the bankruptcy of the settlor 's child or in the event of an assignment of or charge on that income or those assets being executed by the settlor 's child ; or ( b ) that it provides for the determination of the settlement by the act or on the default of any person in such a manner that the determination will not , during the lifetime of the settlor 's child , benefit the settlor or the wife or husband of the settlor ; or ( c ) in the case of a settlement to which section 33 of the Trustee Act 1925 applies , that it directs income to be held for the benefit of the settlor 's child on protective trusts , unless the trust period is a period less than the life of the child or the settlement specifies some event on the happening of which the child would , if the income were payable during the trust period to him absolutely during that period , be deprived of the right to receive all or part of the income .
20 It tends to present in elderly people , who may not be known to be diabetic .
21 One group that was frequently excluded was the poor — those who could not be guaranteed to be able to pay their own funeral expenses .
22 For Income Support the claimant will not be required to be available for employment during that eight-week period .
23 The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts .
24 At the same time , a vuggy porosity was also created in the lower unit of carbonate mudstones but this was found to have resulted from the dissolution of patches and veins of replacement halite ( Fig. 29b and c ) and as such can not be expected to be present away from the areas where replacement has occurred .
25 This combination can not be expected to be homogeneous to start with .
26 Second-hand goods can not be expected to be perfect .
27 As it stands , the crucial implication of these findings , if they are correct , is that increasing the availability of support for people with adverse living circumstances in an attempt to prevent depression would not be expected to be effective .
28 ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic .
29 ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic .
30 The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid .
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