Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] crown " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contend for the crown |
| 2 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 3 | The Estwicks were in Hong Kong , Giles having been required to visit the head office of one of their major commercial sponsors to finalise the details of a competition the radio station was shortly due to run for them , and Cavell Fielding had also departed for the Crown Colony a few days previously , telling Maria that whether she returned depended on Luke 's instructions . |
| 4 | Nourse LJ thought it worth mentioning Lord Blackburn 's comment , based on Blackstone , that ‘ the sheriff also was bound to raise the hue and cry , and call out the posse comitatus of the county whenever it was necessary for any police purposes ; in so doing he was acting for the Crown ’ . |
| 5 | A file was being prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 6 | But before doing so , he contacted the solicitors who represented him in 1981 and they arranged for the crown court appearance . |
| 7 | Little was recovered for the crown by these proceedings , but recognition was gained that all secular jurisdiction was exercised on behalf of the crown by explicit or inferred royal licence . |
| 8 | These arrangements will continue in respect of 1992/93 even if the House of Lords finds for the Crown . |
| 9 | Another old argument is that ‘ manly sports ’ help to keep people fit to fight for the Crown if necessary , whereas fights which involve maiming rob the Crown of able-bodied men for the armed forces . |
| 10 | To fight for the crown against the Church and in order to neutralize the influence of canon lawyers , the regalists introduced the teaching of Natural Law , an innovation which was promptly suppressed in 1794 when the revolutionary dangers of secular political thought were made evident in France . |
| 11 | At the Forest Eyre which opened before him at Windsor in September 1632 , counsel for the Crown was Sir William Noy , the Attorney-General , a learned lawyer determined to re-establish Forest rights which had long been forgotten . |
| 12 | In the course of the hearing , counsel for the Crown accepted that , if notice for the amounts payable as determined by the General Commissioners had not been served on the debtor , the tax had never become payable under s 55(a) , TMA 1970 and s 5 , TA 1988 . |
| 13 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 14 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 15 | Counsel for the Crown conceded , in our view rightly , that in a case where the prosecution has been completed and the judge thereafter refuses leave to the Crown to discontinue , it is counsel for the prosecution 's duty to remain in the case . |
| 16 | Counsel for the Crown argued that if the House of Lords so held this would mean that the foreign income of an accumulation trust administered in England and governed by English law to avoid taxation on overseas source income by the simple expedient of appointing one co-trustee resident abroad . |
| 17 | Lord Havers : April 1 , aged 69 : Led for the crown in the cases of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four and was made Attorney-General in 1979 until 1987 . |
| 18 | A strong prince is infinitely better than ten strong princes fighting for the crown . ’ |
| 19 | At the start of the further hearing , the Attorney-General , who appeared for the Crown , drew our attention to a letter addressed to him by the Clerk of the House of Commons suggesting that any reference to Hansard for the purpose of construing the Act might breach the privileges of that House . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ I take the strongest objection to the suggestion that anyone other than the Daily Mirror themselves are to blame for the Crown Prosecution decision that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute Lucy Marshall for drugs offences . ’ |
| 21 | In 1385–6 Lewyn was superintending building works for the Crown at Berwick-on-Tweed , and about the same time may have been concerned with the great new donjon at Warkworth for the Earl of Northumberland . |
| 22 | Andrew Crookes works for the Crown Prosecution Service in Nottingham . |