Example sentences of "[prep] [det] a case " in BNC.

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1 This is not a case where the demand was based on an erroneous interpretation of legislation by the revenue ; my provisional view is that there is no distinction between such a case and a case like the present where the demand is based on an invalid regulation and is therefore ultra vires .
2 I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles .
3 The coroner 's Proceedings were once again opened at Reading Magistrates ' Court in Valpy Street , the coroner 's court deemed too small for such a case .
4 As Bernard said , and I had to agree , private nurses with the right technical experience for such a case do n't grow on gooseberry-bushes . ’
5 A letter was despatched to the secretary there asking the County Hospital authorities to provide an ambulance if , in future , it were necessary for such a case to be sent to St. Peter 's .
6 Had it happened in Britain there would have been uproar if the judge had n't recommended a minimum of 20 years in jail for such a case . ’
7 They knew , we knew and the police knew that the chance of such a case finding its way into the overloaded court system was minimal .
8 Trades Unions have the expertise to deal with this , and to tackle employers in the event of such a case arising .
9 A leading example of such a case is Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton , L.R. 4 H.L. 226 ; for a more recent Scottish case , also the subject of an appeal to this House , see South of Scotland Electricity Board v. British Oxygen Co .
10 But the difficulty with this approach for the present case is that Woolwich was in reality suffering from no mistake at all , so much so that it was prepared to back its conviction that the revenue was acting ultra vires by risking a very substantial amount of money in legal costs in establishing that fact ; and , since the possibility of distraint by the revenue was very remote , the concept of compulsion would have to be stretched to the utmost to embrace the circumstances of such a case as this .
11 An example of such a case was In re E. ( A Minor ) ( unreported ) , which came before Ward J. on 21 September 1990 .
12 Though it is possible that the facts of such a case might show merely the legitimate compromise of a claim to damages , on the other hand , the facts might be such as to constitute extortion and blackmail of a serious type .
13 Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 is an example of such a case , though there the plaintiffs sued as equitable assignees as that agreement to assign had not been executed .
14 An example of such a case is Bjorlow ( GB ) Ltd v Minter [ 1954 ] 71 RPC 321 in which the employer claimed that a process was secret and had been wrongfully used and disclosed by the defendant , a former employee .
15 What they learn in such a case is , of course , only a rule of thumb ; for if criticism sometimes has to be prescriptive , its prescriptions are never applicable except ‘ by and large ’ .
16 But Ramsey , who had come to love Halifax , wanted what Halifax wanted ; in such a case , in his view , the law does not care about trivialities .
17 In such a case the court has power to stop the prosecution in its tracks .
18 According to the conventional thinking , what matters in such a case is the allocation of property rights .
19 In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all .
20 In such a case , if the wife contracted as agent for her husband , and disclosed that fact to the shop , she incurs no personal liability .
21 Escheat has been abolished , and all property in such a case devolves on the Crown as bona vacantia .
22 Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs .
23 In principle , it seems unjust that a homicide conviction should not be possible in such a case , if all the other elements can be established and only the ‘ year and a day ’ rule stands in the way .
24 As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it .
25 In such a case , however , it is still possible to recognize much in his poetry that is a response to his origins .
26 In such a case the discrimination would be direct .
27 ‘ Pulling the plug ’ in such a case is significant from a medical-legal point of view .
28 There is no doubt that in such a case , given the necessary knowledge and intent , the person turning off the machine would be guilty of murder .
29 In such a case , the degree of risk involved in retaining you , both to the business and yourself , will be an important factor .
30 Unfortunately , there are limits to the extent to which tribunals can lean in your favour in such a case .
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