Example sentences of "court [verb] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 2 | Despite this the courts began to draw a dichotomy between administrative and judicial decisions , to take a narrow view of what constituted a judicial or quasi-judicial decision and to require this as a condition precedent for the application of a right to a hearing . |
| 3 | A judge last night ordered a retrial in the case of a man accused of murdering a sex offender after a jury at Newcastle Crown Court failed to reach a verdict . |
| 4 | Ironically medical evidence brought out in court failed to find a link between the drugs sold by Georgia Griffiths and those found in the body of Henry Skelton |
| 5 | This does not apply where a magistrates ' court declines to hear a case because it could be dealt with more conveniently in another court ( s94(2) ) . |
| 6 | On conviction , the court has to set a value on the drug assets earned during the previous six years , and a confiscation order . |
| 7 | In cases in which pain and suffering is not expected to continue for life the court has to form a view as to how long it is likely to continue . |
| 8 | In approaching this case the court first stated that there were many cases where a court has to construe a standard clause in , for example , a charter party , and there may be some earlier decisions on the same clause or on a clause which is in terms which are indistinguishable . |
| 9 | Now Anne Henderson is going to court to try to keep a roof over her head . |
| 10 | The court tends to adopt a relatively liberal attitude towards extensions of time for commencing arbitration ( Patel v Peel Developments ( South ) [ 1992 ] 30 EG 88 ) . |
| 11 | The supreme court declined to hear a case involving a ton of gold recovered so far from the SS Central America , resting in 8,000 feet of water off the coast of South Carolina after being sunk by a hurricane in 1857 . |
| 12 | The court seems to give a broad interpretation to these powers . |
| 13 | After this the law became increasingly convoluted as the courts tried to escape the rigours of a rule which meant that the court had to make a finding in favour of one party or the other . |
| 14 | However , since other issues had been fully argued the court continued to deliver a comprehensive judgment of persuasive authority , some aspects of which have an important bearing on the issues raised in this appeal . |
| 15 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |
| 16 | At the other end , a court refused to enforce a six-month restraint against a Mayfair hairdresser , extending for a radius of half a mile . |
| 17 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
| 18 | On Nov. 6 , 1989 , the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the settlement agreed to be paid to the victims of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device . |
| 19 | The last hurdle to liquidation was overcome in August when a New York bankruptcy court refused to reopen a class action negligence suit brought by 160,000 former investors in Jim Bakker 's Praise the Lord ministry , which was once a Laventhol client . |
| 20 | Sir : Reference is made to the recent case in which Sheriff Muir Russell at Stonehaven Sheriff Court refused to endorse a licence because of an offence of exceeding the 50 and 60 miles per hour ‘ political ’ speed limits which he is reported as describing as having been ‘ introduced for inflationary and balance of payments reasons , nothing more ’ . |
| 21 | The fact that the threshold test is met does not mean that the family proceedings court have to make a care order . |
| 22 | The courts have to draw a line somewhere when it comes to obviousness although it is difficult to lay down hard and fast rules . |
| 23 | In Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris Lord Denning MR said that by construing a restriction according to the object and intent rule the courts refuse to hold a covenant bad merely because of unskilful drafting and will cut it down so as to reveal its essential reasonableness . |