Example sentences of "[vb mod] be open to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These are also to be reported to colleagues under the provisional code of conduct , and any relationship which is not agreed to should be open to a sexual harassment complaint .
2 Shaken as she was by his startlingly generous gesture , and weak with relief , it did n't occur to her that his words , or his actions , might be open to a different interpretation .
3 But if they do not , I am inclined to think that it would be open to the Divisional Court , in an appropriate case , to order production of the document in judicial review proceedings despite the confidentiality .
4 Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings .
5 For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions .
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