Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about this time there also emerged the Islamic Revolutionary Party ( IRP ) , to provide a banner under which approved candidates could run for election to the Majles , and the Revolutionary Guards or Pasdaran-e-Enqelab-e-Eslami . |
| 2 | Engels was to remark that since property was not a consideration , only the proletariat could marry for love . |
| 3 | The church also set up a number of permanent rural communities where members of the Christian communities could go for weekend retreats or live there full-time . |
| 4 | For the reasons which I have set out I consider that Morland J. was wrong , both not to apply article 10 and to hold that the Derbyshire County Council could sue for libel . |
| 5 | A typical examination question could ask for comment on , say , how the designers of Word for Windows might have been influenced by Ventura Publisher . |
| 6 | There seemed to be no dark corners left , no little cupboards and half-hidden shelves through which a boy could hunt for evidence of his lost mother . |
| 7 | At the same time , and as we saw in section 5.1 , the regulations increased the range and number of bills which institutions could offer for discount at the Bank by recognising as ‘ eligible ’ bills commercial bills accepted by certain leading banks . |
| 8 | With this mysterious absence of ‘ stain' goes a forgetting of grief ; though the Fellowship has just lost Gandalf in Moria , the fact is not mentioned for some twenty pages ( I , 350–70 ) , and indeed we are told that ‘ In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring ’ . |
| 9 | Beyond this opened a small glass-sided cubicle from which a senior clerk could watch for frivolity among the underlings . |
| 10 | It was intended to provide a large number of alternative words and expressions for subjects , so that advice workers could look for information under terms which were familiar to them and still find the right information . |
| 11 | After hearing two days of legal argument at the Court of Session on whether relatives could sue for damage caused to a foetus , the judges said they wanted time to prepare a ruling . |
| 12 | But the power of the feudal barons was real enough in military , economic and political terms ; with no unified state controlling military power , competing armies could vie for control . |
| 13 | It had no business goodwill and was not permitted to trade ; nor did it have shareholders ; ( 5 ) in failing to take proper account of the fact that it logically followed that if a local government corporation could sue for libel in respect of its governing reputation then so too could any institution of central government ( including , for example , a government department which was a statutory corporation such as the Department of the Environment ) ; ( 6 ) in the premises in considering that there was no uncertainty or ambiguity in English law in relation to the extent to which local authorities might sue for libel . |
| 14 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 15 | The trial of the preliminary issue was heard by Morland J. who on 15 March 1991 gave judgment for the council , holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation when no actual damage was alleged , and that the council had a cause of action in libel against the defendants on the basis of the pleaded statement of claim . |
| 16 | Browne J. in Bognor Regis Urban District Council v. Campion [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 considered the specific question whether a local authority could sue for libel . |
| 17 | The people could look for deliverance to no one but themselves . |
| 18 | The width of Tubwell Row could allow for bus pick-up points on the pavements north side and extra pickups on a new platform down the centre . |
| 19 | Watkins L.J. , at p. 82 , asked where else the Home Secretary could look for guidance as to retribution and deterrence , if not to the judges . |
| 20 | No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law . |
| 21 | Only fools , liars and criminals could hope for mercy from the enemy . |
| 22 | But Walkinshaw could counter-sue for breach of contract . |
| 23 | The larger unincorporated industrial towns could petition for incorporation under this Act and many did so over the following years . |
| 24 | A decision to the contrary in the British Columbia Court of Appeal , City of Prince George v. British Columbia Television System Ltd. , 95 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 577 , held that a municipality could sue for libel , but did not consider the argument of competing interests and the balancing exercise required under article 10 , and I do not consider it to be relevant to this appeal . |
| 25 | The argument would run that the appointing authority would have seen the clause ( as they always ask to do ) before making the appointment , would have taken a fee for making the appointment , that the arrangement was therefore a contract incorporating the clause about suitability , and that an aggrieved party could sue for breach of that term of the contract . |
| 26 | Until the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , only a registered patent agent or a solicitor could act for gain as agents for persons seeking patents , but now anyone can do this as long as he does not describe himself as , or hold himself out to be , a " patent agent " or " patent attorney " . |