Example sentences of "the court [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both types of case , the minister 's words are considered and taken into account by the court : in both , the use of such words by the courts might affect what is said in Parliament . |
| 2 | The reference to ‘ all the circumstances ’ was not included in the Bill , but had been in earlier legislation , and was reinstated for fear that the courts might read into the omission a legislative intention that was not truly held . |
| 3 | More information was to be obtained on offenders , and their backgrounds , in order that the courts might select methods of disposal ‘ most likely to achieve the ends of justice in relation to the individual offender ’ . |
| 4 | There are three rules of construction which the courts might employ when construing a statute . |
| 5 | It would seem sensible , therefore , that given the current limitations of s.62 the courts ought to adopt a liberal interpretation of ‘ adversely affected ’ . |
| 6 | Caution against dealings provides that a third party claiming an interest such as the courts would enforce , shall be notified of any proposed dealing with the land so that he or she might challenge it . |
| 7 | There was no clear theory of jurisdiction and it was impossible to draw up a set of rules which could be used to predict when the courts would intervene . |
| 8 | If the courts were to develop the idea that all errors of law are jurisdictional , defined the word law in a purely analytical way so that it embraced any , or almost any application of a statutory term and substituted judgment on the meaning of that term , then a prospective applicant would be clear that the courts would intervene using that standard . |
| 9 | The courts would decide all questions of law using that word in the sense described above . |
| 10 | The approach of the majority seems to have been that even if there was such a breach the courts would refuse to acknowledge that it existed . |
| 11 | Whether the courts would extend this remedy to information in documents which were accidentally released as opposed to surrepticiously obtained was answered in English and American Insurance Co Ltd v Herbert Smith [ 1988 ] FSR 232 . |
| 12 | It is true of course that the device could potentially backfire : having equipped this Tribunal with so much power , it might begin to use it and impose demands on the executive which exceed those which the courts would demand . |
| 13 | In our example the courts would classify the condition of the house , " furnished , " as a jurisdictional fact . |
| 14 | However , the justification for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts would appear to rest on two grounds , both of which may be open to question in the light of the foregoing analysis . |
| 15 | Libel damages call for a metaphysical evaluation of dignity , a compensation , in many cases , for loss of amour propre which may be higher than the courts would award for the loss of an arm or a leg . |
| 16 | It is possible , though very unlikely , that the courts would grant a further exception to the rule in Foss v. |
| 17 | An ambiguously worded provision , patently lacking adequate means of enforcement , may be too slender a ground on which to anticipate that the courts would sanction a derogation from the ownership rights of the shareholders , lying as they do at the foundation of the legal model of the company . |
| 18 | You are such a bad man bringing women home for me to cook for that the courts would acquit me . ’ |
| 19 | The traditional position was that the courts would control the existence and extent of prerogative power , but not the manner of exercise thereof . |
| 20 | A fundamental breach is one which the courts would consider more serious than an ordinary breach . |
| 21 | Until the seventeenth century the courts would declare Acts of Parliament void if they considered them contrary to natural law , repugnant to the law or impossible to be performed . |
| 22 | It may be that the courts would apply some sort of reasonable annual percentage . |
| 23 | On this view the courts would determine what adjudicative procedures are required in particular areas . |
| 24 | Notwithstanding that the transfer is not lodged for registration or registration is refused , the beneficial interest in the shares will , it seems , pass from the seller to the buyer at the latest at stage ( 2 ) and , indeed will do so at stage ( 1 ) if the agreement is one which the courts would order to be specifically enforced . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that the courts would criticise a practitioner who had acted in good faith and in the interests of his patients . ’ |
| 26 | Their doubts arose from the inability to predict or control how the courts would use the power . |
| 27 | Dicta in Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 suggested that the courts would adopt a generally non-interventionist approach to exclusions in commercial contracts . |
| 28 | It is not clear whether the courts would take the same attitude in relation to a general disclosure in a discretionary customer agreement of the fact that the firm might sometimes act as principal . |
| 29 | Legal advice from learned leading counsel on both sides was contradictory , and at one stage the Attorney-General advised the Minister of Transport that if the GLC should adopt a certain budgetary policy he thought the courts would accept it . |
| 30 | However , it is not known whether the courts would accept this argument , because it can perhaps be said that the shares management acquire in Newco are acquired pursuant to ( though not causally connected to ) an opportunity offered to management ( namely to buy Target or its business ) by reason of their employment/directorships with the vendor or Target . |