Example sentences of "a [noun pl] court [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each policeman is supplied with a police court attendance card , on which is recorded the date of all attendances at police court in connection with charges or summonses , and each entry has to be initialled by the officer in charge of the station . |
| 2 | The initial decision of the complainant was not without importance , for if , after hearing the evidence of witnesses , the justice of the peace decided that the case was not serious enough to be sent to a superior court , he could not then and there try it as a police court case . |
| 3 | The two claims were made for damage to machines , and neither was serious or a Police Court case . " |
| 4 | Information relating to a particular employee , former employee or applicant to become an employee of , or a particular officer , former officer or applicant to become an officer appointed by a magistrates court committee or a probation committee . |
| 5 | Nintendo Co has lost a bid to keep competitors from selling devices that modify its video games after the US Supreme Court refused to hear its arguments against an appeals court ruling in favour of Lewis Galoob Toys Inc , which offers Game Genie , which plugs into the Nintendo Entertainment System and cartridges , enabling players to use a simple code to change up to three elements of a game at a time ; the appeals court wrote that because Game Genie does n't cause any permanent change to the Nintendo cartridges — and is dependent upon a cartridge and the Nintendo system in order to operate — it does not usurp Nintendo 's copyright ; Nintendo said Game Genie violates a copyright owner 's exclusive right under the Copyright Act of 1976 to authorise or prepare derivative works . |
| 6 | Reputed to be a conservative and an advocate of a narrow interpretation of the Constitution , Souter 's recent appointment as an Appeals Court judge , together with a sparse record of published opinion , meant that his views on contentious contemporary issues remained largely unknown at the time of his nomination . |
| 7 | Marshall had been appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 after a successful career as a civil rights lawyer , legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) and an Appeals Court judge . |