Example sentences of "case [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing so depressingly encapsulates the heart-rending decline from imperial majesty to federal anonymity which the nation has undergone in her lifetime , than a case devoted to stamps and banknotes . |
| 2 | There was no reason why , once they had taken her statement , she should n't go home to Norway until the case came to trial . |
| 3 | She died before the case came to trial but a written statement signed by her on 16 December 1985 was received into evidence under the Civil Evidence Act 1968 . |
| 4 | His case came to hinge on one point . |
| 5 | The case came to hinge on the legitimacy of Mabel because of William 's first contracted marriage and so to be a matter for the church courts . |
| 6 | One civil servant , at least , managed to escape the net when Clive Ponting , a Ministry of Defence official who had leaked documents about apparent ministerial lies on the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War , was acquitted by a jury when the case came to court . |
| 7 | As a consequence the PFA continued to support George Eastham 's legal battle and it was not until 1964 that the case came to court and Sir Justice Wilberforce established the players ' legal right to the second freedom that had already been negotiated in 1961 . |
| 8 | LAST week , a case came to court in which a mentally unstable man was convicted of stabbing three policewomen and one policeman in a shopping centre . |
| 9 | The mesne process allowed a creditor to have his debtor arrested and detained before the case came to court and judgement was made on it . |
| 10 | When the case came to court , he did n't attend , leaving his lawyers to make a dramatic plea to the jury . |
| 11 | The case came to court 21 months later . |
| 12 | When the case came to court , the magistrate evidently decided that it was impossible to say which party was to blame in a scuffle of this sort . |
| 13 | When the case came to court , Pauline Baldwin was granted a decree nisi because of her husband 's admitted adultery , but the judge found no evidence proved against Gabrielle . |
| 14 | By the time the case came to court , General Amin was neither available as a witness nor regarded as a person worthy of belief . |
| 15 | Because before the case came to court , key witness Alan Chalky White was found murdered in the Cotswold Water Park . |
| 16 | The case came to light at Liverpool magistrates ' court when Shaw Bakery was prosecuted for a lapse in food hygiene standards . |
| 17 | The case went to court in September and resumes on 2 December . |
| 18 | ‘ And one of the conditions of her bail was that she was n't to go anywhere near Times Square until her case went to court , ’ Carmen said . |
| 19 | Solicitor Alistair Babbington decided she was mature enough to decide and the case went to court . |
| 20 | Writers can excoriate poor persons secure in the knowledge that , unless a trade union or well-wisher finances the action , it is unlikely to be pursued : even a journalist as senior as Adam Raphael has quailed when told that the legal cost of suing another newspaper to vindicate his reputation could be as high as £250,000 if the case went to trial . |
| 21 | In particular distinctions were drawn between errors of law going to jurisdiction and errors of law within jurisdiction and between errors of law on the face of the record and other errors on law which in neither case went to jurisdiction . |
| 22 | and split the case and all on the T V and he come back in he said oh I picked this up he said and the case fell to bits . |