Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] court " in BNC.

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1 When the judges allow the woman 's sexual history to be heard in court , they allow it to be reported in the press .
2 The settlement , which concluded four months of negotiations , obviated the need for the separate cases to be heard in court .
3 You will be informed when the date has been fixed for the appeal to be heard in Court when you must appear personally before the Court in support of your Appeal .
4 Doctors have given Mr McTear , 48 , a former smoker , only a short time to live , but his case — which will open the floodgates of claims if he is successful — will take months to be heard in court .
5 You see , he 's got thousands of titles and things , and she likes him into the bargain ; also she wants me to be presented at court next year — as his wife .
6 It could , for example , refuse to hand a child back to a drunk parent but the child 's continued detention against parental wishes would have to be authorised by court order as soon as possible .
7 In all cases , three copies of the application and affidavit are required to be lodged at court — no fee is payable .
8 The court ordered the original bills of lading , which were in the hands of B. , the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia appointed to the United Nations Organisation by the former government , to be placed in court to facilitate the sale of the cargo and for the net proceeds of sale to be paid into court .
9 The court ordered the original bills of lading , which were in the hands of B. , the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia appointed to the United Nations Organisation by the former government , to be placed in court to facilitate the sale of the cargo and for the net proceeds of sale to be paid into court .
10 This does not apply , however , to money ordered to be paid into court , to payments from debtors under warrants , attachment of earnings orders , administration orders and a small number of minor provisions , to some orders as to enforcement , nor where any party is under disability ; in those cases where the court will be taking payments , all other payments will be made direct from debtor to creditor .
11 Relevant state benefits for which the plaintiff must give credit should still be estimated and deducted when fixing the amount to be paid into court before a certificate is received as the plaintiff will be entitled to take out the whole amount in court and the defendant remains liable to reimburse the Secretary of State .
12 While its primary purpose is to advise local authorities , the guidance adds flesh to the statutory bones of the Children Act and is likely to be quoted in court proceedings .
13 Very ordinary people ( or at least ordinary men ) could afford to attend a performance of a Shakespeare play in the large Globe Theatre , and appear to have done so , and the same play might be requested to be performed at court .
14 The first is that some 600,000 debt cases ( that is , all types of unpaid debt , including rent and fuel bills as well as unmet credit obligations ) have had to be settled in court each year : that 's one for every 30 families or so .
15 There may be points of dispute in which case they 'll have to be settled in court . ’
16 Over the past 18 months more than 10 cases have come to light , one of which is soon to be pursued in court .
17 Children — Custody — Enforcement — Mother removing children from Australia without father 's knowledge in breach of joint custody rights — Father acquiescing in children 's removal — Father 's subsequent application for children 's return — Judge refusing to make order in interests of children — Whether children 's interests to be considered in court 's exercise of discretion — Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 ( c. 60 ) , Sch .
18 Well if they owe us money and stuff like that , we might have to be going to court in the end with it but the only trouble is , we 're losing that much bloody time taking a day off and going down there !
19 Yet in sharp contrast to this development , the 1985 Act provides expressly that evidence which tends to suggest that illegal tapping has taken place is not to be admitted in court .
20 It is surprising that the Commission has failed to recognise that if uncorroborated confessions are to be admitted in court then their accuracy must be above suspicion .
21 The imbalance between the parties does not mean that all disputes ought to be resolved in court , rather it suggests that there may be methods of organising dispute resolution which are fairer for the parties involved .
22 These typically concern matters which are either too petty to receive formal legal treatment , or too involved to be brought to court .
23 If it succeeds , other shops can expect to be brought to court .
24 ‘ We heard nothing until March 1989 when we were told we were to be taken to court — myself , Mrs Roper and Mrs McNeil .
25 Trafalgar came within a hair 's breadth of being the first company to be taken to court by the Financial Reporting Review Panel last year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) .
26 I would like him to be taken to court ; where the Jury ,
27 more likely to be taken to court and , in some cases to prison , once they have broken the law ; and
28 There 's a lot to be done if cases are to be taken to court , but the last thing Thames Water will want during the run up to privatisation is a long , drawn out damages claim where the point at issue is the safety of the water in the tap .
29 Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault .
30 Clearly if , if the fines were more that would help , but I do think now because of the consciousness of the general public and because of the involvement of the media in , in the environment , er that firms are not keen and the third parties , whoever they may be , are not keen to be fined in court for pollution , because public opinion is such that it 's very much disapproved of .
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