Example sentences of "case was [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last night Taylor said : ‘ Our case was that the video showed evidence of contact between the players and that the referee was not in a good position to judge . ’ |
| 2 | The next point which posed a problem in this case was that the clause was unlimited in geographical area and the business of Littlewoods was solely within the UK whereas the businesses of the GUS group were worldwide . |
| 3 | ‘ ( a ) Allegations . ( i ) The allegation in this case was that the respondent had obtained a 70 per cent . |
| 4 | The allegation in the case was that the respondent had obtained a 70 per cent . |
| 5 | The significant feature of this case was that the creditor 's solicitors had specifically written independently to the elderly parents , enclosing the forms of charge with a letter addressed to each , advising them to seek independent legal advice before signing . |
| 6 | However , the important additional point in that case was that the transferor foundation was in principle and in fact a legal person whose objects were non-commercial . |
| 7 | The prosecution case was that the victim , R , came with others to a party attended by F and was stabbed by F during a general disturbance when R and the two other men in his group were stabbed by F's two brothers ( who were also charged ) . |
| 8 | The prosecution case was that the defendant had fired deliberately at Paulette . |
| 9 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 10 | Another difficulty in the Gouriet case was that the applicant sought an injunction to restrain a threatened breach of the criminal law . |
| 11 | Lord Osborne told the accused that it was a very serious offence and the happy feature of the case was that the baby had apparently not suffered very much at all in the long term — and this could only be seen as a miracle . |
| 12 | The prosecution case was that the murder was premeditated , the evidence of the premeditation being , as the prosecution suggested , that Mr. Pegg had returned to his home to fetch the knife before setting out to meet Goddard . |
| 13 | Accordingly the issue in the case was whether the removal of Bury by the visitor was valid or not . |
| 14 | LORD JUSTICE BALCOMBE said that the point of substance in the case was whether the mother 's consent was unreasonably withheld . |
| 15 | However the question in the present case was whether the duty of confidence which the defendant no doubt owed to the plaintiff extended so far as to bar disclosure of the report to the hospital or the Home Office . |
| 16 | The question which arose in those cases was whether the cessation of trade , in the sense of ‘ putting the shutters up , ’ immediately deprived the court of bankruptcy jurisdiction over the married woman , or whether it continued while the trade debts remained unpaid . |
| 17 | The test adopted in both cases was that the decision-maker should not capriciously withhold approval . |