Example sentences of "[was/were] entitled [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ( At the end of the War , it was found that over 50 deaf men from Manchester Institute for the Deaf were entitled to the Defence Service Medal for their work with the Civil Defence , and this could be repeated throughout the country .
2 The judgment held that men and women were entitled to the same pension from the same age .
3 ( 2 ) That the judge 's failure to direct the jury adequately as to the defendant 's previous good character was a material misdirection which could have caused injustice to him ; that at any stage of the trial the jury were entitled to the judge 's assistance on the facts as well as on the law , the withholding of which constituted an irregularity which might , depending on the circumstances , be material ; and that the judge had erred in failing to ascertain what the jury 's problem was and to give the requisite help ( post , pp. 166C , F–G , 167G , H ) .
4 It happened that , for whatever reason , the charge was signed only by the first appellant , whereas both of them were entitled to the freehold .
5 He further submitted that in any event , the Bank were entitled to the benefit of a presumption that the notice was validly issued , and that this presumption could only be displaced by evidence of facts which could not be reconciled with the Bank having the required reasonable opinion .
6 It was a bit cross ( and told the Germans so ) when Germany seemed to think it could have a debate about whether Turkey , a NATO member , was entitled to the benefits of the same collective security which Germany has enjoyed for more than four decades .
7 William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France .
8 The caddies received only a proportion of this as a caddie master was entitled to the remainder .
9 On a reference from a Dutch court , the European Court in Luxembourg held that the Dutch company was entitled to the same treatment as other Dutch companies , notwithstanding that it was the subsidiary of a UK parent .
10 In such a case , the auditors ' report referred to in s 248 would be better separated from the main audit report and included instead in a note which explained that , although it was entitled to the exemption , the company was not taking advantage of it .
11 However , M. Frontenac was entitled to the final say and he had rejected a veritable Gotha of applicants before music in France became somewhat un-sympathetic to a romantic text .
12 ‘ So even before the passing of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 the fact that the suit was brought to enforce jus publicum was not of itself sufficient to displace the ordinary rule that a defendant was entitled to the usual undertaking in damages as a condition of the grant of any interlocutory injunction against him , though the undertaking was exacted from the relator and not from the Crown on whose behalf the Attorney-General was the nominal plaintiff in the suit .
13 Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) .
14 It is obviously fundamentally different in this respect , that , whereas before , he was entitled to the protection of the Act until successful proceedings were taken , he is now in the position that proceedings have been taken and that an order for possession has been made .
15 Accordingly , the tenant whom we are here considering was entitled to the protection of section 3 .
16 In , prior to ninety one ninety two which is three years prior to now , a married woman was entitled to the same as that , it was , they did n't call it basic allowance , the same amount only if she was married of course and working , it had to be earned income .
17 He was entitled to the truth .
18 It was held that he was entitled to the return of the price , on the ground that he had suffered a ‘ total failure of consideration . ’
19 The garda was entitled to the evidence on which the allegation was made .
20 ( 210 ) But a handsome butcher , who had found a place beside her , held that she was entitled to the post of honour in the front row , and bade her not be frightened .
21 If they went to the common law courts , they would be told that the legal estate in the land was vested in the grantee , and that he was entitled to the benefit himself .
22 L1 demised Sevenoaks Farm to B and Greenland to C. L1 granted B a right of way over Greenland , and C was entitled to the benefit of a covenant granted by L1 for the quiet enjoyment of Greenland .
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