Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [art] interests " in BNC.

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1 It placed a disproportionately severe restriction on the defendant 's right to compete after leaving the employment and went further than was reasonable in the interests of the parties .
2 Despite the passing of the Children Act 1989 , the inherent jurisdiction of the court could still be invoked in such a case to prevent an abortion which was contrary to the interests of the minor .
3 It was Mr. Newman 's submission that the matters to which regard should be had in the present case were ( 1 ) the lapse of time between the commission of the alleged offences and the request for extradition , and ( 2 ) the fact that the accusation against the applicant was contrary to the interests of justice , in that it would lead to the trial of the applicant in Sweden on the basis of the record of Price 's evidence , despite the fact that Price had subsequently retracted that evidence in this country in so far as it implicated the applicant .
4 That discretion would not be exercised reasonably if no reasonable Minister could conclude that the issuing of the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security or for the prevention or detection of crime .
5 In conducting this exercise the Commissioner has explained that he has adopted the wide test of subversion formulated by Lord Harris in 1975 and that his duty ‘ is to look at each case individually and say whether the Home Secretary could reasonably take the view that the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security ’ ( Lloyd , 1987 ) .
6 The House of Lords held that the question whether the conduct was prejudicial to the interests of the state was for the court and not for the jury .
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