Example sentences of "lord [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Hedley Byrne & Co. v. Heller & Partners ( below , p. 338 ) Lord Devlin said of this case : ‘ …
2 Lord Hailsham spoke of elective dictatorship .
3 The Court of Appeal upheld the judgment that the accountants owed no duty of care to the plaintiff , but Lord Denning dissented from this decision and in doing so , discussed at some length the types of statement in respect of which accountants owe a general duty of care and the people to whom that duty extends .
4 Again , in Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] 2 AC 733 Lord Diplock said of non-pecuniary loss :
5 Lord Lane called for centralised control of advocates ' conduct , enforced by the judges .
6 Lord Carrington resigned as Foreign Secretary , pre-empting a distracting row about who was to blame , leaving the Prime Minister unambiguously in charge of policy .
7 As Lord Quinton remarked at one point :
8 Lord Donaldson spoke on 54 occasions .
9 Lord Goff referred to multidisciplinary partnerships as ‘ most objectionable ’ , and Lord Griffiths called them a ‘ profound mistake ’ .
10 In those two cases Murray and MacFarlane Lord Sands referred to this point .
11 It could be that Lord Roskill wished in this way to exonerate the mischievous label-switcher , but that person is anyway not guilty of theft because he does not have the mental element .
12 Lord Henry laughed at this idea .
13 Lord Tebbit rounded on former Premier Sir Edward Heath , who had accused him and Lady Thatcher of trying to persuade Tories to vote against Mr Major .
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