Example sentences of "court [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court recommended that she should be reinstated . |
| 2 | The court admitted that it was giving an unusual meaning to the word , for a historian who described the end of Rizzio by saying that he met with a fatal accident in Holyrood Palace would fairly be charged with a misleading statement of fact . |
| 3 | It has also been said that if a member of a court announced that he would give expression to his views by voting against every licence , he would be disqualified : McGeehan v. Knox ( supra ) , Lord Mackenzie at p.696 . |
| 4 | There have been some minor revisions of these rules recently , since the European Court ruled that they were discriminatory against women , but this has not made much difference . |
| 5 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 6 | Mrs Teresa Leinen , 25 , may be parted from Sean , three , and Ashley , one , within five days after the High Court ruled that she broke international laws . |
| 7 | In 1989 , the Supreme Court ruled that it was ‘ constitutional ’ to execute juvenile offenders and the mentally retarded . |
| 8 | The court ruled that there was indeed no jurisdiction , and on this ground dismissed the appeal . |
| 9 | On Dec. 3 , 1991 , the Supreme Court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to bring the former President and senator for life , Alan García Pérez , to trial on charges of illegal enrichment during his 1985-90 period in office . |
| 10 | The court ruled that there was sufficient evidence for a sixth charge , of complicity in the execution of seven Jewish hostages in 1944 , but that this was not a crime against humanity since it was not part of a " methodical extermination plan " , and that it therefore fell under a 20-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of " ordinary " war crimes . |
| 11 | The court ruled that there had been a " failure of justice " in the original trial in a lower court , when the accused were not allowed to include a full range of documentation in their defence submissions . |
| 12 | In Glynn v. Keele University the court found that there had been a breach of natural justice by the failure to give a hearing to a student who had been disciplined . |
| 13 | Dominic Mngomezulu and Ray Russon were released after the court found that there was no evidence to support charges that they had attended a public political meeting contrary to the state of emergency . |
| 14 | The court found that there was a wide division of opinion among actuaries as to the relative merits of both methods , that the method chosen by the actuary was a fair and proper method , and that the calculation based on that method was unobjectionable . |
| 15 | This was followed in the case of Ellen Street Estates Ltd. v. The Minister of Health ( C.A. , 1934 ) where the court found that it was impossible for Parliament to enact that , in a subsequent statute dealing with the same subject-matter , there should be no implied repeal . |
| 16 | The new government was formed after consultations with seven parliamentary parties , but not with the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) , which was banned on June 24 after a Sarajevo court found that it had developed into a " classic terrorist organization " , nor with the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) . |
| 17 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 18 | The court judged that their principles , objectives and methods conformed with the sharia ( Islamic law ) and was satisfied that they sought to preserve national unity , social peace , the socialist democratic system and socialist gains in keeping with the principles of the July 1952 and May 1971 revolutions . |
| 19 | The only comment I wish to make at this stage is that the court recognised that I had no intention to act in defiance of an order of the court or to hold myself above the law . |
| 20 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 21 | The court stated that they had to take the plaintiff as they found him . |
| 22 | ( See re Barry Artist [ 1985 ] 1 WLR 1305 , where the court stated that it would not in future accept an informal decision to reduce share capital . ) |
| 23 | Many Bank Assistant members who saw the Association 's Submission to the Labour Court commented that it contained a case which was irresistible . |
| 24 | The court emphasised that it was upholding party autonomy and would not rewrite the contract to take account of subsequent concerns . |
| 25 | On the hearing of the appeal the court ordered that there be no identification of W. , any institution or establishment where she was residing or being educated and any natural person having or prospectively having day to day care of her or of any material calculated to lead to her identification . |
| 26 | The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books . |
| 27 | The court heard that it was a nursing auxiliary who had spoken to her about Liam after finding him alone in his room and looking pale in his incubator . |
| 28 | He sat shame-faced as a court heard that his career was in tatters because of the stag night brawl . |
| 29 | The court heard that his daughter Deborah Anderson had last seen him alive when he had visited her on December 22 . |
| 30 | But Cleveland Coroner 's Court heard that his benders got worse after the tanker BT Nautilus spilled 260,000 gallons of oil into a busy shipping channel near New York in June , 1990 . |