Example sentences of "could not be [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The setting up of the secret camp and the training of the men was a blind and a cover to fool Medoc , and people who said lugubriously that Medoc could not be fooled did not know what they were talking about . |
| 2 | My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries . |
| 3 | Even the heyday of tomb-robbing was over ; his scavenging could n't be called by such a piratical name and the local labourers could not be inspired to sift the soil scrupulously when they could break it with a pickaxe so much faster , and the mounted overseers might take a crack at them with a rifle butt if they dawdled . |
| 4 | Treaty could not be assumed to disregard . |
| 5 | Though they were spoken for my benefit , I could not be assumed to share the same norms . |
| 6 | They could not be seen telling stories : it looked daft . |
| 7 | Most were casual or self-employed workers who could not be made to retire , and many were also small property-holders — an important factor which also made their position stronger for continuing at work . |
| 8 | A statutory demand under s 268 , Insolvency Act 1986 could not be made to recover tax payable as determined by the General Commissioner when the notice of that amount had not been served on the taxpayer at his usual or last known place of residence under s 115 , TMA 1970 , according to Chancery Division in Re a Debtor ( No 124/50/91 ) , Ex Parte the Debtor v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 888 . |
| 9 | Thus a charge of collusion could not be made to stick . |
| 10 | The chain brake could not be applied to stock mounted on bogies , and Moon condoned it , at a Board Meeting in 1879 , as ‘ the most perfect brake that could be devised ’ — it was also the cheapest . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 12 | Could , or could not be maintained depending on its location . |
| 13 | It was a time when a bare ankle could not be shot stepping out of a robe for the implication would be ‘ nakedness ’ , the consequence ‘ sex ’ and the inevitable result — the destruction of the nation . |
| 14 | Her doctor was busy ministering to the injured and dying victims of the bombers and could not be called to help Julia . |
| 15 | For a second Alain looked down into her drenched eyes and then took her into his arms , holding her fast , well aware that the tears could not be stopped to order . |
| 16 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 17 | Since in most species the individual animals can not control their own colour , Lamarckism could not be invoked to explain the phenomenon ; selection was the only alternative to divine creation . |
| 18 | It is also to agree that they could not be said to represent the mass of unskilled working people . |
| 19 | 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) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 22 | The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future . |
| 23 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 26 | In 1910 few Liberals had argued for Home Rule in their election addresses or speeches , so they could not be said to have a clear mandate for it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The appellant , if he believed that Mr. Occhi , knowing that £7 was far in excess of the legal fare , had nevertheless agreed to pay him that sum , could not be said to have acted dishonestly in taking it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |