Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] in [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have argued that the limits of sovereignty are contained in the courts ' central commitment to representative democracy : a purported statute which attempted to subvert democracy could derive no legal authority from the doctrine . |
| 2 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 3 | But investors must pay a price for this increased safety — not all of any gains are reflected in the trusts ' performances . |
| 4 | The rigidity and over-centralisation had been shown in the nurses ' pay regrading exercise , which had been worth ‘ nought out of 10 — useless ’ . |
| 5 | About 20 syllables and 6 basic themes have been recognised in the whales ' singing , which can continue through day and night with only short pauses for breath . |
| 6 | Similar problems arise where the parties wish to use EDI : messages will be received in the parties ' " electronic mailboxes " , and it may be necessary to decide when such messages are effective . |
| 7 | The grossed up amount of the debt should therefore be included in the taxpayers ' total incomes for higher rate tax purposes . |
| 8 | As with most provincial newspapers , stories tend to be written in the reporters ' office with a minimum of telephone calls to check facts and with one eye on the deadline for going to press . |
| 9 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 10 | to the extent that such adjustments could be made if the data were to be used in an accountants ' short form report , the guidance in the CFM on the procedures to adopt for short form reporting should be followed . |
| 11 | All answers had to be remembered in the mothers ' own words . |
| 12 | This was not a total surprise , since Prendergast suffered from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and was frequently to be encountered in the Directors ' Lavatory , but Vic had thought he was alone , and felt rather foolish standing there with the stump of the clothes brush , like an incriminating weapon , in his fist . |
| 13 | When she was missing on the set , she could always be found in the stars ' dressing-rooms . |
| 14 | I have little doubt that a major force in the moulding of the law in this form is to be found in the practitioners ' text books of the time , notably Bullen & Leake 's Precedents of Pleadings , 3rd ed. ( 1868 ) , p. 50 , and Leake 's Law of Contracts , 5th ed. ( 1906 ) , p. 61 ; we can see this reflected in the form of the arguments advanced in the cases , and the manner in which the court reacted to submissions by counsel challenging the accepted view . |
| 15 | Public law proceedings must be commenced in a magistrates ' court unless there are already public law proceedings pending in a county court or the High Court or the application is made by a local authority following a s37 direction to investigate made in family proceedings in either court ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) . |
| 16 | We may therefore imagine performances centring , as the Dionysiac mysteries did , on his dismemberment by the Titans and his hoped-for rebirth , which would be presaged in the worshippers ' songs of triumph . |
| 17 | The great British car manufacturing companies , among them Daimler , Lanchester , Rolls-Royce , Sunbeam and Vauxhall , all of which are represented in the Dolls ' House , made their own engines and chassis with a standard body , but it was more usual for the owners of such cars to have special bodywork built to their own requirements by coachbuilders . |
| 18 | In this chapter we will chiefly be concerned with three of the most crucial sets of decisions for which the courts are responsible : remand decisions ( whether accused persons are freed on bail or remanded in custody ) ; jurisdiction decisions ( whether they are tried in the magistrates ' court or committed for trial in the Crown Court ) ; and sentencing decisions . |
| 19 | It seems likely that the files of cases which had ‘ no further action ’ or were cautioned would be returned to the police quickly , so we inferred that those cases not followed-up had been tried in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 20 | ( a ) Public law proceedings Article 3 of the APO ensures that public law proceedings are commenced in the magistrates ' court unless it is appropriate to consolidate with existing proceedings elsewhere . |
| 21 | ARSENAL keeper David Seaman and midfielder David Hillier are fit to face Manchester United today after being substituted in the Gunners ' 3–0 crash at Leeds . |
| 22 | Nor , even if full-time , did they typically do the same type or level of paid work as that performed by the men who were included in the employers ' pension schemes . |
| 23 | All the doors were closed in the owners ' sleeping cars ( there were almost no open sections in those ) , the inhabitants there having the habit of privacy . |
| 24 | The League and Central League trophies , for the first time held by one club , decked with blue and white ribbons , were displayed in the directors ' box and carried round the field at half-time . |
| 25 | His first years in government were spent in the Whips ' Office , where he was schooled in the importance of ensuring that all interests were taken into account . |
| 26 | A prime example this year has been the committee 's extensive concern with the prospect of standard fees being introduced in the magistrates ' courts , with the risks which that will bring to the most junior members of the profession . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but we played better when I went off ! ’ he said , referring to the fact that Dale were camped in the opponents ' penalty area in the final half hour . |
| 28 | A total of 135 cases were observed in the magistrates ' courts : 46 Blacks ; 7 Asians ; and 82 Whites . |
| 29 | About half of the Blacks and Whites were tried in the magistrates ' courts and one-fifth of the Asians ( see Table 3 ) . |
| 30 | Three NatWest executive directors resigned after being criticised in the inspectors ' report . |