Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All the same there is a strong argument that low investment in the British economy is not just a matter of funds being unavailable ; there is a reluctance to borrow for investment purposes on the part of many enterprises . |
| 32 | Malik , who rescued Rugby from extinction in 1986 by buying the clubhouse from the liquidators , has alleged breach of contract in commercial dealings with the club and has used his ownership of the drive and car park to sue for trespass . |
| 33 | This shift in the meaning of marriage was accompanied by changes in married women 's property rights and in the grounds women could use to sue for divorce , both of which benefited primarily middle class women . |
| 34 | Lawyer Mark Scoggins advises some of our biggest insurance companies on workplace liabilities , he believes workers could soon be able to sue for stress damage , costing British firms and their insurers , millions . |
| 35 | It was in response to what Lord Penzance called ‘ sensational cases of cruelty ’ that the first law giving working class wives an opportunity to sue for separation and maintenance was passed in 1878 . |
| 36 | Breach of promise suits , which allowed individuals to sue for damages if they had been injured by unenforceable marriage contracts and which became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century , provide one example of this development . |
| 37 | Some banks also have a hit list of people whom they threaten to sue for damages . |
| 38 | Depending upon the kind of problem that has arisen , it may be easier and safer for you to sue for damages for breach of your contract while remaining in your job . |
| 39 | You may also be able to sue for damages if your employer , past or present , fails to take care to ensure that his comments are based on correct information . |
| 40 | We are taking details , legal advice and our rights to sue for damages are fully reserved . |
| 41 | Where the term breached is a less important term , a warranty , breach merely entitles the victim of it to sue for damages and does not allow the victim to end the contract . |
| 42 | Section 303(5) provides that the section does not deprive the director of the right to sue for damages for breach of contract , if in fact he or she has one . |
| 43 | Since Morland J. found that the cases mentioned above demonstrated , without uncertainty or ambiguity , that the council as a local authority was entitled to sue for damages in respect of the libels alleged in the statement of claim , he held that it was not necessary to have regard to article 10 . |
| 44 | I suspect that the reason why the right has been so little asserted or used is because of the established right of individuals , who are personally libelled by a false attack upon a local authority , to sue for damages and because those in control of local authorities have sensibly left the issues to be resolved in those proceedings . |
| 45 | B may refuse to accept that as a repudiation by S. In that case B will be able to sue for damages for non-delivery if on December 1 S does not deliver . |
| 46 | a child in utero is to be treated as already born thereby having a right to sue for damages for the death of his father . |
| 47 | The court must first determine whether the particular statute gave rise to the right to sue for damages . |
| 48 | O ate said that the government is to allow all citizens to sue for damages over environmental hazards , and to accompany environmental inspectors on site visits . |
| 49 | The landlord would be entitled to sue for damages for breach of covenant and/or endeavour to forfeit the lease ( although the risk of forfeiture is extremely unlikely in the current market ) . |
| 50 | Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head . |
| 51 | Once the right to reject the goods has lapsed , the buyer 's only remedy is to sue for damages for breach of contract . |
| 52 | In this case , the contract may be set aside and the buyer will be able to sue for damages . |
| 53 | They say they still want to find out how the girls died , but ca n't get legal aid to sue for damages . |
| 54 | A man who was apparently brain damaged during an operation has been given permission to sue for damages … even though the operation took place twenty five years ago . |
| 55 | The Department of Trade opposed his application to sue for damages . |
| 56 | ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’ |
| 57 | Richard took hostages from them and then sent them and other members of their league to England to sue for mercy at his father 's feet . |
| 58 | Do you know , the editor of the Observer has had six married men ringing him this morning , threatening to sue for libel ? |
| 59 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 60 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |