Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] legal [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the FA protested , they received a splendid rebuff to the effect that the PFA could not be expected ‘ to regard seriously the opinion that a football player forfeits a common legal right on entering into a professional engagement with a football club ’ . |
| 2 | Inn , therefore , has a specific legal meaning and only those establishments which fall within that definition are subject to the duties and able to exercise the rights accorded to establishments of that status . |
| 3 | Under present UK law , a company has a separate legal personality ; and its members , even if it is wholly owned by another company , are not — at any rate in theory — liable for its debts and other obligations . |
| 4 | The leading Stockholm trade publisher Norstedts , also included in the 1990 takeover , has a significant legal publishing department . |
| 5 | The modern surveyor involved in administering building contracts needs more than just a working knowledge of its terms — he needs a detailed legal appreciation . |
| 6 | On the one hand , it would seem that if a claim can be framed as one in contract or tort , or if it concerns a private legal right , it need not be brought under Ord. 53 even if the very ground on which the respondent 's action is alleged to be a tort or breach of contract is that it was illegal in a public law sense . |
| 7 | The treaty creates a new legal framework for co-operation between member states in foreign and security policy and in the fight against international crime . |
| 8 | In addition , the Directive creates a new legal right against the ‘ unfair extraction ’ of information from databases . |
| 9 | The solution to this market failure is a patent system , which confers a temporary legal monopoly on the inventor who registers or patents the invention . |
| 10 | In addition to corporations aggregate , English law attributes a continuous legal personality under the name of ‘ corporations sole ’ to the Queen , and to the successive holders of certain offices , especially the holders of ecclesiastical offices , such as bishops , and rectors and vicars of parishes . |
| 11 | There remains a strong legal bias to the audit process , one that places considerable reliance on examining the probity of state institutions . |
| 12 | It proposes a new legal format , the Incorporated Business Firm ( IBF ) , which wold require a simpler presentation of accounts , simpler constitutional documents , a clearer definition of directors ' duties , and a choice between partnership or limited liability tax regimes . |
| 13 | This arrangement secures a quiet legal life for the film industry in general , although it is resented by some film-makers who are obliged to tailor their product to BBFC standards in order to secure distribution outlets . |
| 14 | This ambitious project faces a major legal obstacle . |
| 15 | TENNIS star Steffi Graf faces a new legal ordeal over her father 's affair with a nude model . |
| 16 | Although these differences of terminology amount to more than semantic predilections , for they support — perhaps even generate — rival conceptions of the limits of contractual obligations , the generic idea remains a special exercise of choice by an individual , through which he deliberately incurs a binding legal responsibility . |