Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] liable to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that such liability is firmly established , the question becomes whether persons who give advice or perform services should be liable to all persons who may foreseeably rely upon their work being properly performed with all due care . |
| 2 | The decision in Sutcliffe v Thackrah ( cited at 14.4.1 ) was very recent , and the Lords justified their view mainly on public policy grounds that the primary rule is that those who commit breaches of a duty of care should be liable to those affected . |
| 3 | The question remains whether an expert should be liable to a party for damages for the consequences of procedural unfairness . |
| 4 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 5 | A senior civil servant later corrected the Home Secretary 's interpretation by arguing that offensive speeches against the Jews as a whole might be liable to prosecution if they were likely to occasion a breach of the peace under the Public Order Act . |
| 6 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 7 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 8 | And they will never pass on the fact that owners could be liable to the same punishment . |
| 9 | Spokesman Jim Sutton says they should be ‘ prosecuted with vigour ’ , but he reminds owners that they could be liable to the same fate if planners ever get tough . |
| 10 | 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) The Act of 1976 expressly recognised the possibility that under the pre-existing law ‘ a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ’ see section 4(5) . |
| 12 | ‘ This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; … |
| 13 | In that case , the House of Lords concluded that a bank giving information as to the liquidity of one of its own customers to another bank so that the latter could show the information to one of its customers could be liable to that customer , even though the first bank did not know the identity of the second bank 's customer , the ultimate recipient of the information . |
| 14 | Your tenants , not you , will be liable for the community charge ( poll tax ) , but you may be liable to capital gains tax when you sell . |
| 15 | So if a guest invites a friend back to the room , and the friend is injured in that room , the guest and not the hotel has occupational control and may be liable to the friend . |
| 16 | If you fail to provide a specimen you may be liable to prosecution . |
| 17 | Anyone ( whether he is a manufacturer or not ) who ought to appreciate that his acts or omissions may well cause harm to another may be liable to that other for any damage caused by his negligence in carrying on those activities . |
| 18 | Importers of goods may be liable to one or more of four taxes : |
| 19 | First , he may be liable to conviction of an offence under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 20 | Secondly , he may be liable to his purchaser for breach of a term of his contract — a matter to be considered in the next chapter . |
| 21 | He was advised that if he did use the vehicle he and his employers may be liable to prosecution . |
| 22 | Firstly , the mean velocity profile may be liable to local instability , somewhat analogous to instability of laminar flow . |
| 23 | The landlord may be liable to the vendor in damages if the vendor suffers loss through the landlord 's unreasonable delay in considering the application . |
| 24 | In brief , this regime means Newco may be liable to VAT if the vendor 's use of ( inter alia ) certain business premises or computer equipment before completion has changed from taxable use to exempt use . |
| 25 | However , this will often conflict with the vendor 's desire to ensure that such assets are not sold for more than their tax written down value , otherwise the vendor may be liable to a balancing charge ( see , eg , s4 Capital Allowances Act 1990 regarding industrial buildings and s24 regarding plant and machinery ) . |
| 26 | Where D was intoxicated when committing the ‘ unlawful act ’ , it is likely that he would be liable to conviction for that offence despite his intoxicated state . |
| 27 | Also , the material when embanked would be liable to settlement and slippage . |
| 28 | There would , however , be a selective audit of returns and self-assessed tax payments and taxpayers would be liable to surcharges if they failed to send in payments , returns or accounts on time . |
| 29 | Moreover , apart from this defect , the election could not be regarded as complete until he had received his pallium from the pope , and he would be liable to deposition unless he received it within a year of his consecration . |
| 30 | Thus , industries which only occasionally are problematic would not be subject to continual regulation but rather would be liable to lightning attacks by the Monopolies Commission or whatever . |