Example sentences of "did [not/n't] constitute a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The taxpayers appealed to a Special Commissioner , contending that the novation did not constitute a ‘ release ’ because it was neither wholly voluntary or gratuitous , nor made for less than full consideration . |
| 2 | A further approach argued by the taxpayers was that the disposal of certain assets of the practice by B did not constitute a cessation of trade . |
| 3 | The ECJ took the view that the acquisition and holding of shares in other companies , without any involvement ( either direct or indirect ) in the subsidiaries ' management , did not constitute a business activity . |
| 4 | Hohne , the EAT reached a similar conclusion in that when the employer moved from premises in High Holborn to Regent Street , the move itself did not constitute a fundamental breach because the new premises were just as easily accessible to Mrs Hohne as she travelled by underground . |
| 5 | However , the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars , while significant struggles and in the case of the latter conflict involving savage warfare in Manchuria anticipating the kind of warfare to be seen in Europe between 1914 and 1918 , did not constitute a confrontation between two superpowers set against a background of vitriolic suspicion and rivalry , as happened in 1950 . |
| 6 | It was contended before the deputy judge that the writing by the deceased of his name , as part of the phrase ‘ My Will by Percy Winterbone , ’ did not constitute a signature for the purposes of paragraph ( a ) of section 9 . |
| 7 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 8 | The legal position was not entirely clear : if the extract was short enough , then it was permissible to use it , because an extract from a book used purely for the purpose of comment did not constitute a breach of copyright , but in the present circumstances , when it was used for purely political purposes , I was not so sure . |
| 9 | The above example of a minimax punishment strategy was not subgame perfect because , in the subgame beginning in the period just after a defection , the minimax choices did not constitute a Nash equilibrium . |
| 10 | Darwinism did not constitute a unified research programme , and by the end of the century the fragile unity imposed upon several diverse fields by the appeal to Darwin 's name as a figurehead had broken down . |
| 11 | Paris — or to be precise , the Paris made up of Montparnasse , St Germain and the Mouffetard — was like a party : meeting someone on the street in that quadrant did not constitute a pickup . |
| 12 | It was minuted that the papers did not imply a commitment by the Regional Council to particular levels of growth or policy stances and did not constitute a formal statutory stage of public consultation . |
| 13 | Officials emphasized that this move , anticipated to last not more than three months , did not constitute a step towards a state of emergency but simply formalised the existing situation . |
| 14 | As such it undermined the defences of the other 10 who faced charges arising from the affair and who , like Shinto , had argued that the shares did not constitute a form of bribery . |
| 15 | He stressed that this did not constitute a formal ceasefire , however , saying that a ceasefire would be achieved only if Iraq agreed to surrender all allied and Kuwaiti prisoners ; to provide maps of all minefields ; and to accept all relevant UN resolutions on the Gulf . |
| 16 | The Supreme Soviet ordered the authorities in those republics to set up referendum organizing commissions without delay , and ruled that alternative referendums on independence being held in some of those republics [ see p. 38014 and below ] did not constitute a legitimate substitute for the all-union referendum . |
| 17 | Palestinian leaders argued that their fighters did not constitute a militia , but were an army engaged in a war with Israel and its proxy South Lebanon Army . |
| 18 | In a cautiously worded announcement on May 29 Afewerki said that the EPLF would be setting up a provisional administration for Eritrea , but that this did not constitute a unilateral declaration of independence . |
| 19 | In 1989 the Supreme Court had assisted employers to defend themselves by ruling that it was up to the worker to prove that such practices did not constitute a " business necessity " . |
| 20 | The Defendants counter argument that this infrastructure information did not constitute a record either was not allowed by the Court . |
| 21 | This was confirmed in Russell v Northern Bank Development Corporation Limited and others [ 1992 ] 1 WLR 588 , where , in the House of Lords , it was held that a private agreement between shareholders not to increase the capital of the company was an agreement about the manner of voting of the shareholders and did not constitute a restriction on the statutory power of the company to alter its share capital . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ This tragedy could have been avoided because the method of decanting used in an enclosed space with a direct source of ignition available and the use of an unsuitable type of hand lamp did not constitute a safe system of working . ’ |
| 23 | Kelly , however , ventured the opinion that asking the manager for a statement on where the club were headed did not constitute a threat to Brady 's position . |