Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] properly be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Laternser immediately rose to protest that the witness had never been in the German army and therefore could not properly be asked or answer any such questions . |
| 2 | The petitioner took the view that involuntary agency could not properly be distinguished either from notification au parquet , to which the authors of the Convention were clearly opposed , or from such devices as service upon a State official , typically the Secretary of State , permitted in various United States jurisdictions . |
| 3 | It could not properly be interpreted as leaving a gap where that unusual situation arose . |
| 4 | The seller delivered copra cake so contaminated with castor beans that it " could not properly be described as copra cake at all " . |
| 5 | Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " . |
| 6 | Erm , but my Lord er I think the difficulty is that as far as my learned friend is concerned er he takes the view and it 's probably better for him to develop this your Lordship , that the matters can not properly be separated and he wishes your Lordship to deal with them in total so that er the whole picture can be seen at liability stage . |
| 7 | It is difficult to resist the observation that in view of the anaemic definition of the offence , affray can not properly be characterised as being committed by a number of people fighting in public , even if that is the most commonly charged form of it . |
| 8 | And it is here that we come to the nub , theoretically , of the problem with Adorno 's whole approach to listening Dick Bradley ( n.d. ) points out that within a Marxist framework production and consumption can not properly be given the near-identity which Adorno attributes to them . |
| 9 | However , the Rome Convention can not properly be treated as determinative of the construction of article 5(1) . |
| 10 | At the same time , a constituency should form a homogenous whole and , ideally , it should not be so large in area that its affairs can not properly be overseen by its Members . |
| 11 | The needs of blind and partially sighted people can not properly be met within a ‘ standardised ’ care management system , says a new report published by CCETSW . |
| 12 | Inevitably we are moved in the direction of using proxies which can not properly be validated . |
| 13 | Indeed , the politics of the last thirty years of the century can not properly be understood without reference to the wealth and ambition of the members of the king 's own family . |
| 14 | This book concentrates on legal control by the courts , but the role and significance of judicial control can not properly be understood without examining its relationship to alternative methods of control ; and so , in Part V , certain non-judicial controls will also be considered . |
| 15 | Also there are elements in these sculptures which can not properly be understood if one has not first considered the contemporary revolution in painting . |
| 16 | Zimbabwe 's election to the top shelf can not properly be justified , and renders future results and averages farcical . |
| 17 | On the other hand the very nature of the work may be such as to make it quite clear that the duties of the employee to his employer can not properly be performed if he engages in certain activities in his spare time . |
| 18 | Their relative goodness of fit can not properly be judged because the hypotheses do not cover the same input . |
| 19 | Conversely , the ethically proper allocation of funds to health , as compared to education or defence , is quintessentially an issue for political debate , and can not properly be left for individuals in the trenches to fight over , when they have no knowledge or view of the larger issues . |
| 20 | As to the second , there are two fractals in physics whose D is fairly well accounted for , namely the ‘ Brownian ’ drift of a small particle jostled by molecules in a fluid which is an erratic curve with D=2 , and the hierarchy of density fluctuations in a fluid at the critical point where it can not properly be considered as liquid or gas . |