Example sentences of "of court for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF HISTORY is anything to go by , the legal action being brought in Britain by 3,000 patients against Wyeth ( a subsidiary of American Home Products ) and Switzerland 's Hoffmann-La Roche will either be dismissed or settled out of court for a pittance . |
| 2 | Coopers later settled out of court for a fraction of that sum . |
| 3 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 4 | There was a sniff of disapproval signifying that it was out of court for a grown man to be still in his bedroom in mid-morning , and not at a place of work . |
| 5 | This was certainly the view of the Justices ' Clerks ' Society ( 1992 ) , which conducted a comparative survey of the use of custody in the two levels of court for a selected range of offences . |