Example sentences of "court [to-vb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , there is no necessity for the courts to abandon a concern with substantive outcomes entirely , since , despite the above strictures , a judicial evaluation of the likely profit consequences of a particular course of action would not be impossible , within fairly broad limits .
2 Magistrates made a commitment order against him and asked the court to issue a warrant for his arrest .
3 An application can be made to the court to obtain a ruling by issuing an originating summons under RSC Ord 7 , seeking a declaration in the terms of the meaning desired .
4 You are hereby served with an application by your husband/wife which asks the Court to grant a decree of divorce .
5 He appeared in court to answer a charge of drink-driving — not , it transpired , for the first time .
6 He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July .
7 ( 1 ) ( a ) If on the pre-trial review the district judge has ordered that the hearing be adjourned generally and certificates of readiness ( with an estimate of length of hearing ) be lodged by all parties before the matter is set down , then it will not be regarded as practicable by the court to fix a date of hearing until the certificates or readiness are in fact provided .
8 In a county court , unless a hearing date has already been fixed , the plaintiff should request the court to fix a day for the hearing within six months of the close of pleadings ( CCR Ord 17 , r11(3) ( d ) ) .
9 The ruling came after BSDI asked the court to postpone a hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction against it made by USL .
10 But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed .
11 Mr Spalvins holds a crucial 20 per cent stake in Bell Resources and asked Australia 's High Court to appoint a receiver to the company .
12 John Spalvins , the head of Adelaide Steamship which holds a key 20 per cent stake in Bell Resources , has asked the Western Australian Supreme Court to appoint a receiver to that company along with Mr Bond 's master company , Bond Corporation , and his private family concern , Dallhold Investments .
13 This may , in fact , already be the position as far as executive directors are concerned , in that they are employees and it is usual for the court to imply a term in employment contracts to the effect that employees will carry out their duties with reasonable care and skill .
14 PETER Cameron-Webb , one of the men at the centre of the largest Lloyd 's scandal in history , yesterday failed in the Appeal Court to overturn a judgment against him for £5million .
15 The Marquis of Blandford arrived at Chipping Norton magistrates court to face a charge of possessing a shot gun without a licence , only weeks after he was released from Oxford prison .
16 The Court had every sympathy with that desire , but it was not the province of the court to manipulate a sentence in this way .
17 There is therefore ample scope for the court to distinguish a decision on the meaning of a particular word or clause in a different contract .
18 The point to make here is that if it is good enough for the courts to judge a publication as a whole then it would be perverse of a librarian to do otherwise in book selection .
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