Example sentences of "[not/n't] be justified [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if I had believed the opposite of 2 , my belief 1 would not be justified unless I also believe something like 3 . |
| 2 | FOE 's transport campaigner , Roger Higman , said : " This road can not be justified unless concreting over the countryside to create unsustainable traffic growth can be called justification . " |
| 3 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 4 | Most Victorian churches had disappeared — upkeep could not be justified as they were quite unsuitable for individual meditation . |
| 5 | Obviously , purely objective criteria such as the patient 's age or the particular illness can not be justified or relied upon . |
| 6 | We understand that the borough council 's Director of Planning has concluded from this guidance that the application can not be justified and should therefore be refused . |
| 7 | ‘ Given the declining demand on ICI 's chlorine plants and with huge electricity price increases , this expenditure can not be justified and we have no choice but to announce this closure . ’ |
| 8 | for some the high cost of machinery could not be justified when only relatively small areas were being cropped and contractors were not readily available . |
| 9 | So intervention can not be justified when another more appropriate person is available and willing to act ; nor can it be justified when it is contrary to the known wishes of the assisted person , to the extent that he is capable of rationally forming such a wish . |
| 10 | Selective abortion of such children for these abnormalities can not be justified when effective postnatal surgery is available and the outcome is likely to be good with a normal lifespan without disability . |
| 11 | In the type of market situation examined here , it can not be justified if a cost-leadership policy based on a belief in the experience curve is pursued . |
| 12 | On the other hand , a Member State may not invoke its own legislation where EEC directives expressly require a Member State to allow the marketing of goods which comply with the provisions of those directives , and more generally national legislation will not be justified if the Community legislation is intended to regulate the matter at issue in a comprehensive manner . |
| 13 | Three years of bloodshed and misery could not be justified if the outcome were a return to the pre-Republican status quo . |
| 14 | He allowed himself , or claimed to allow himself , no beliefs about the world which could n't be justified if , if , even if only in a very loose sense , by scientific canons of procedure . |