Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 2 | And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty . |
| 3 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 4 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 5 | It is also to agree that they could not be said to represent the mass of unskilled working people . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
| 8 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 9 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 10 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 11 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
| 12 | Mr McCormick submitted that if any one of the mother 's reasons was possibly valid then it could not be said that the mother 's refusal to consent was outside the reasonable band . |
| 13 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 14 | They accepted that Mr Goodman would suffer financial hardship as a result , but said that they were not in a position to judge whether his dismissal had been justified , so that it could not be said that his difficulties had been caused by the company 's conduct . |
| 15 | When the last payment was made on 12 February 1990 , it could not be said that the accountants would necessarily be benefited by a surplus of £2,310 to set against fees for work done earlier but unpaid . |
| 16 | Mrs Frizzell eased herself — it could not be said that she exactly pushed — through the crowd so that she was next to Mrs Hnatiuk , while Maxie stopped to talk to clients . |
| 17 | As the Court of Appeal put it : ‘ Somebody was not telling the truth and it could not be said that it was not a relevant matter for the jury to be told that one man had been dishonest in the past . ’ |
| 18 | ( 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 ) . |
| 19 | In the case of two of the charges , the court held that , Mrs. Aboody having come to the bank herself to execute the charges , it could not be said that the bank left it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 21 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) . |
| 22 | ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) . |
| 23 | As the company was a separate legal entity , and in the particular circumstances ( through its directing mind and will ) had consented to the husband 's drawing the cheques , it could not be said that he had appropriated the company 's property . |
| 24 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |
| 25 | However , it could not be said with any certainty that because Mr. Wright had backed out , the dealer had sold one car less . |
| 26 | It could not be said that a peace had been finally made because old habits in Alexandra would not die a final death and made her still reserved , a little wary . |
| 27 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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) . |
| 30 | ‘ Except , ’ he said at last , ‘ that it shall not be said . |