Example sentences of "[noun] could not [be] said " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 2 | A review of recent research led Coleman ( 1986 ) to conclude that reminiscence therapy could not be said to stand on a very solid base , and that it is important not to make generalizations about the value of reminiscence to any particular individual . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thus , because the taxpayer could not be said to control the trustees , he could not be said to have control over the application of the income within s742(e) . |
| 5 | These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet . |
| 6 | The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future . |
| 7 | The House of Lords said that punctual payment required payment on the Friday , if the banks were closed on the Saturday and Sunday , and that the owners could not be said to have waived the breach simply because their bank had accepted the payment order . |
| 8 | It has already been pointed out that there was no authority on the precise issue raised by Morgan , so that in that sense the House of Lords could not be said to have changed the law . |
| 9 | First , if the plaintiff had passed on the relevant tax to others , the taxing authority could not be said to have been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , and he was not therefore entitled to recover . |
| 10 | The King 's Bench Prison was for gentlemen debtors , for ‘ men born to property and a high station in life who by their folly and crime reduced themselves to wretchedness and loaded themselves with disgrace ’ — though James Grant 's description in Pictures of Popular People could not be said to fit poor Benjamin Haydon . |
| 11 | While bringing many qualities to his new post , Mr Snyder could not be said to possess great insight into the subject — in fact he did n't possess any sight at all ; the new chairman was registered as blind . |
| 12 | Many routes could not be said to form a coherent network , other than as InterCity connections to whom they did not now belong , and a few ( surprisingly few ) were in the mould of the traditional country branch line . |
| 13 | Given the freedom which the parties enjoy in a common law system in the matter of gathering evidence , their resort to foreign procedures could not be said to interfere with English procedures or the control over those procedures which the English court would exercise . |
| 14 | ‘ But in the case of such an animated film , there would n't be anything behind the cartoon sofa ; not only that , the sofa could n't be said to have a behind at all . |
| 15 | Volenti was held to be inapplicable as the doctor could not be said to have agreed to the risk . |
| 16 | In recent years , the Committee has noted , with disappointment , that the new Legal Aid Board was not ‘ a Legal Services Board with overall responsibility for legal aid and legal services ’ ; that the present system could not be said to constitute a ‘ comprehensive system of legal services offering good early advice ’ ; and that in considering reform to the legal profession , there had been a failure by government ‘ to examine the place that lawyers ’ services should occupy in the field of legal services as a whole . ’ |
| 17 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |