Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] the courts " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Harris also said ‘ with absolute certainty ’ that any adverse findings by the JDS would have been overturned by the courts . |
| 2 | The distinction is explicable on the basis that directorship has not been regarded by the courts as a profession , and hence a director is not expected to satisfy a higher standard , for example that of the reasonably competent business manager , simply by virtue of holding office . |
| 3 | Last night Liverpool council commented in a statement : ‘ These matters have now been resolved by the courts after one of the most thorough investigations ever undertaken into any council 's affairs . ’ |
| 4 | We will be tracing its pervasive effects below , firstly in relation to the largely untrammelled sentencing powers that have traditionally been enjoyed by the courts in England , and secondly in inhibiting policy initiatives that have sought to substitute an element of strategic planning for the policy vacuum that continues to characterize the English sentencing system . |
| 5 | They have also been attacked by the courts , with the result that it is difficult to see what practical effect such clauses might be thought to have . |
| 6 | The question of justifiability has been considered by the courts in a number of employment cases , where it has been construed most recently as meaning that the discriminatory effect of the requirement or condition must be weighed against its ‘ reasonable necessity ’ for the purposes of the business enterprise in question . |
| 7 | No case of this kind has ever been considered by the courts before , and I do not think the dicta in the previous cases should be read as excluding a case of this kind where a landlord seeks , by a course of intimidation , to " annul his own deed " , to contradict his own demise , by ousting the tenant from possession which the landlord has conferred upon her . |
| 8 | Contraceptives can not be sold freely — Ireland 's Family Planning Association has just been fined in the courts for putting condoms on sale in a Dublin record store — and divorce is illegal . |
| 9 | Most of the workers concerned had or would have been deemed by the courts to have had contracts of employment . |
| 10 | It has been said by the courts that there are good reasons of public policy to enforce such time-limits : public programmes ought not to be suspended or held up indefinitely for fear of a challenge at some later date . |
| 11 | No use has been made of the courts . |
| 12 | No use has been made of the courts . |
| 13 | Instead , some examples will be given of the type of claims that have been made in the courts of the United Kingdom , Australia , and the United States , and of the responses that have been favoured by these domestic courts . |
| 14 | To the extent that statutory changes were necessitated by these recommendations , they have largely been made by the Courts and Legal Service Act 1990 , Part I. Consequently , the relationship between the jurisdiction and procedure of the county courts and High Court will change over the next few years . |
| 15 | FORD had been formed on Aug. 2 by six opposition leaders including former Vice-President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga , whose attempt in February to form a political party [ see p. 37995 ] had been thwarted by the courts . |
| 16 | How has the ‘ reasonable man ’ test been interpreted by the courts ? |
| 17 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
| 18 | The words in section 2(1) ‘ transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer ’ have been interpreted by the courts to require that the transfer of ownership to the buyer should be the main object of the agreement . |
| 19 | This is all the more so because other provisions in the Act , as they have been interpreted in the courts , amount to what is effectively an indirect attack on the ‘ right to silence . |
| 20 | However , an amnesty law passed in 1978 , which granted immunity to the perpetrators of human rights violations , has been used by the courts to block full investigations into these cases . |
| 21 | It is perhaps unsurprising that the matter should have been challenged in the courts , given that it was an affront to the requirements of even the most basic conception of the rule of law . |
| 22 | The closure of Ulimwengu could have been challenged in the courts had anyone felt willing , or been at liberty , to do so . |
| 23 | The right of an employee inventor to claim statutory compensation from his employer has recently been asserted before the courts for the first time in a series of three reported cases emanating from the Comptroller of Patents and the Patents Court . |
| 24 | It has long been recognised by the courts that the protection of business secrets is a legitimate ground for the imposition of restrictions on persons to whom such secrets have been disclosed . |
| 25 | The Code has been recognised by the courts as establishing objective standards of fairness towards minority shareholders which they will take into account when exercising their own discretion under , for example , CA 1985 , s430C or s459 . |
| 26 | First , does Lord Diplock 's taxonomy provide a ‘ better ’ set of labels than those of Lord Greene M.R. which have traditionally been employed by the courts ? |
| 27 | Intellectual honesty may well require a better explanation as to why an act is unreasonable than that which has been provided by the courts using traditional techniques of review . |
| 28 | Hitherto only border guards had been brought before the courts in connection with the " shoot-to-kill " policy [ see pp. 38736-37 ; 38782 ] . |
| 29 | Over the past five years , 2,346 cases of illegal logging have been brought before the courts . |
| 30 | 1.34 Significant changes to the allocation of personal injury actions between the High Court and county courts have been introduced by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 and the High Court and County Court Jurisdiction Order 1990 . |