Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] be justified " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zimbabwe 's election to the top shelf can not properly be justified , and renders future results and averages farcical . |
| 2 | We saw in Section II that shape-perception is not needed for the recognition of object-identity , so that if we were to attribute identity-perception to a creature ( perhaps because of its ability to follow a moving target ) we would not thereby be justified in attributing shape-perception also . |
| 3 | Judicial obedience to the statute in such ( extreme and unlikely ) circumstances could not coherently be justified in terms of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty since the statute would plainly undermine the fundamental political principle which the doctrine serves to protect . |
| 4 | Two other factors are worth mentioning here because they are often given as reasons for dispersals that could not obviously be justified otherwise . |
| 5 | Dismissal can not usually be justified merely because the employee 's private life is scandalous or involves immoral conduct , and this has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision ( LAG Hamm , 17 Sa 1326/89 ) . |
| 6 | Some people think , for example , that value judgements ( " this novel is Greene 's best " ) can not ever be justified ; you may disagree — it depends on your ideas about value and whether you think a value judgement is an arbitrary decision on the part of a reader . |
| 7 | In my view , to have 32 seeds , even in the men 's singles where there is far greater depth of talent than among the women , can not possibly be justified . |
| 8 | Second point is that Barton Willmore say again a settlement of two and a half thousand is needed in order to be viable , well a settlement of two and a half thousand can not possibly be justified under the statistics that we have heard to date , and it is ni it is noteworthy that Barton Willmore representative did not actually promote a need argument , therefore the settlement at two and a half thousand is n well the settlement at two and a half thousand is not necessary , and anything less than that is unsustainable , so therefore in my in my view that is a a further reason why it should not be contemplated as a solution . |
| 9 | However , there were even more terrible signs of this supposedly new streak of violent irritability to be found among the youth of working-class neighbourhoods , which could not even be justified on the grounds of over-enthusiastic jingo patriotism . |
| 10 | He says he agrees with Mr Tebbit that many of the evil deeds of recent years which have seen child murders and terrorism of a particularly disgusting type , can not be answered by ‘ mere questions of policing , penal treatment or sentencing policy and can not either be justified or explained by talking of urban deprivation and unemployment . ’ |
| 11 | of the vessel 's crew , irrespective of their nationality , to reside ashore in the member state in question was irrelevant to the aim of the quota system and could not therefore be justified by that aim . |
| 12 | The media have a right to publish defamatory remarks at the risk of paying heavy damages if they can not subsequently be justified . |