Example sentences of "was entitled [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my opinion , it was a conclusion which he was entitled to reach on the evidence before him . |
| 2 | Owing to the provisions of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 C could not rely upon a simple conspiracy to injure but in the House of Lords it was held that he was entitled to succeed on the ground of intimidation . |
| 3 | Jones ( Note ) [ 1957 ] 1 W.L.R. 1118 , also cited by Kerr L.J. , a granddaughter was allowed to occupy one room in the house of her grandmother and it was held that the granddaughter was entitled to succeed to the tenancy of the whole house . |
| 4 | Controversy over who was entitled to vote in the referendum had begun in July 1991 , when Morocco had appeared to have retracted its previous acceptance of the 1974 census as a basis [ see also p. 38410 ] . |
| 5 | At the option of the proprietor of the feu , he was entitled to receive from the superior a receipt which did not require to be tested or holograph and was effectual without being recorded . |
| 6 | Smith J. , at p. 458 , held that the plaintiff was entitled to recover on the authority of Morgan v. Palmer and Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 . |
| 7 | In Morgan v. Palmer ( 1824 ) 2 B. & C. 729 it was held that the plaintiff was entitled to recover from the Mayor of Great Yarmouth a sum which he had been required to pay as a condition of being granted a renewal of his publican 's licence , the payment having been demanded without lawful authority . |
| 8 | An illustration of deception by words is Banaster ( 1979 ) 68 Cr App R 272 ( CA ) , which held that a judge was entitled to leave to the jury the question whether a mini cab driver at Heathrow airport deceived a foreigner when he said that he was driving an " airport taxi " because the foreigner , who was on his first visit to England , might have thought that the taxi was an official one . |
| 9 | As the maximum gradient was 1 in 12 , the Inspecting Officer said he was entitled to insist on the use of cars with track brakes , but as the road flattened out before the bottom , he would not insist on this occasion . |
| 10 | v. Wilts United Dairies the question arose whether the Food Controller was entitled to charge for the granting of a licence under this Order . |
| 11 | Their Lordships held that a chief constable who was dismissable only for cause was entitled to notice of the charge and an opportunity to be heard before being dismissed . |
| 12 | A member state was entitled to discriminate in the ages at which men and women became entitled to state pensions but it was not acceptable for a distinction to be made between the sexes as to the age of retirement : see Marchall v Southampton and SW Hampshire Area Health Authority ( Teaching ) ( 1986 ) ICR 335 ; Roberts v Tate & Lyle ( 1986 ) ICR 371 . |
| 13 | Having taken into account the facts known to the inspector , the Special Commissioner was entitled to come to the conclusion that the inspector 's opinion was reasonable in the circumstances . |
| 14 | He referred specifically to the point that this concrete path was only " " seven feet long " " , and it seems to me that on the evidence he was entitled to come to the conclusion which he reached on the question of fact , i.e. that in all the circumstances the steps formed part of the building . " |
| 15 | The Special Commissioner was entitled to find on the facts whether it was reasonable for an inspector to have formed an opinion that a notice should be raised requiring information from a taxpayer . |
| 16 | The judge found as a fact that the flats were ‘ substantially completed ’ and that payment was due to the plaintiff in respect of the number of flats substantially completed , which left an outstanding amount due from the defendants to the plaintiff in the absence of the payment of which the plaintiff was entitled to remove from the site . |
| 17 | The Special Commissioner found that the taxpayer was entitled to elect for the amount distributed to be reduced by the allowable expenditure in accordance with s 74(4) , since , as a matter of construction , the provision applied to all capital distributions in respect of shares regardless of the relative amount . |