Example sentences of "law do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the situation that we find ourselves in with the Maxwell Pension situation , where we find that the the erm Trust Law did n't prevent the things from happening which did happen . |
| 2 | The new law did n't stress how children should learn to speak standard English — or state how they should be taught to read . |
| 3 | She was supposed to be suffering from a nervous breakdown , but that could be because the law did n't want anybody talking to her . |
| 4 | The law did not forget her . |
| 5 | No less hierocratic than Pecham , Winchelsey eagerly supported the king with clerical taxes when the realm was in danger and when papal decree or canon law did not prevent it ; in 1295 and late in 1297 he evinced an almost unseemly — and not widely shared — enthusiasm to assist the king with clerical subsidies , but much of his tenure is remembered rather for his resistance to the crown 's efforts to tax the clergy . |
| 6 | Until 1926 English law did not recognize the institution of adoption . |
| 7 | However it did enable anyone who was in fact a trader , but the law did not recognize as such , to achieve something resembling the benefit of bankruptcy . |
| 8 | The election won , Baldwin prepared to move , both into 11 Downing Street , which was his by right , and into Chequers , which Bonar Law did not want . |
| 9 | Fahfakhs explained that Native Law did not cover this case . |
| 10 | The charge was dismissed on the ground that Michigan state law did not prohibit assisting someone to commit suicide . |
| 11 | The law did not specify which court should try most specific offences . |
| 12 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
| 13 | The attitude of the Bench to past proposals for the reform of the criminal law did not suggest that their judgment in such a matter was reliable , and those Government supporters in Parliament who had given most study to the matter were unanimously in favour of abolition . |
| 14 | The British Government stumbled at this hurdle , and in fact failed simply because domestic law did not regulate the circumstances in which the power could be exercised with sufficient clarity . |
| 15 | On behalf of the Crown it was contended that the law did not recognise any such general principle as was involved in the primary submission for Woolwich , that the facts of the case did not meet the established principles governing the restitution of sums paid under duress , and that the revenue were never under any obligation to make any repayment and did so only as a matter of grace . |
| 16 | Where a plaintiff claims in respect of the consequences of an injury caused to the foetus before birth , the following questions arise : ( 1 ) How can the defendant have owed the plaintiff a duty of care at a time when the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? ( 2 ) How can the defendant be liable for causing injury to the plaintiff when , at the time that the injury was caused , the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? |
| 17 | Where a plaintiff claims in respect of the consequences of an injury caused to the foetus before birth , the following questions arise : ( 1 ) How can the defendant have owed the plaintiff a duty of care at a time when the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? ( 2 ) How can the defendant be liable for causing injury to the plaintiff when , at the time that the injury was caused , the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? |
| 18 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge misdirected himself in holding that the preliminary issue should be answered in the affirmative and/or in giving judgment on the preliminary issue for the plaintiff and ( 2 ) the defendants were not liable in negligence to the plaintiff for any injury , loss or damage suffered by him while a foetus and en ventre sa mère since he was born prior to the passing of the Congenital Diabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 and the common law did not recognise such a cause of action . |
| 19 | It would be absurd if the law did not recognise the causal connection between these events despite its refusal to imply a non-competition restriction post employment . |
| 20 | Sir Matthew Hale was to ensure , however , that the law did not proceed in this direction . |
| 21 | However , due to changes made at the insistence of President Turgut Özal , the law did not apply to those accused of terrorism or crimes against the state , nor was it effective in those provinces under a state of emergency . |
| 22 | The charges of gross embezzlement and abuse of power carried a maximum sentence of 20 years ' imprisonment , but Zhivkov , aged 79 , looked unlikely to suffer this fate since Bulgarian law did not permit anyone over 80 to be sent to prison . |
| 23 | But the law did not take specific account of Arabs who left their homes for fear that Israeli forces might cause them harm — the reason most Arabs give for their sudden departure . |
| 24 | The revolutionaries ' lack of interest in a programme of political reform and gradual extension of the rule of law did not imply indifference to individual liberty . |
| 25 | Unfortunately Dutch law did not provide equality of treatment in every respect for the subsidiaries of foreign parent companies — certain social security rules were not applicable to them . |
| 26 | The Chancellor could grant a remedy to an individual where the common law did not provide a remedy , the aim being to attain justice in each case . |
| 27 | What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? |
| 28 | But in their place , Law did not fill his shadow cabinet with assertive businessmen . |
| 29 | It concluded that Community law did not impose requirements concerning the granting to ships of flag rights . |
| 30 | A QC claimed yesterday it would be ‘ absurd ’ if the law did not allow people forced to leave homes made uninhabitable by radioactive contamination to be compensated . |