Example sentences of "to court " in BNC.
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| 1 | What brings you here to court so hastily ? |
| 2 | It is the first time the inspectorate has taken the board to court for an alleged lapse of safety . |
| 3 | Unless they are called as witnesses , victims are often not told when a case is coming to court . |
| 4 | ‘ Our understanding is that if it does go to court , the hearing will be next year . ’ |
| 5 | He was fatigued even before the start of the fourth game when he was late back on to court . |
| 6 | A friend of Knighton said : ‘ It is very unlikely he would go to court . |
| 7 | Galileo is scheduled to be launched tomorrow on the space shuttle Atlantis , but opponents went to court yesterday in an attempt to stop it . |
| 8 | One will enable employers to take the union to court , where it would risk losing its immunities , if it fails to repudiate the action . |
| 9 | Mr Patten promises that the Government will ‘ allow ( sic ) the public to take local authorities to court if they fall down on the job of keeping the streets clean . |
| 10 | A TECHNICAL failure on the space shuttle Atlantis has given anti-nuclear activists time to return to court for a second attempt to prevent the space craft 's launch , which they believe risks raining radioactive material over Florida . |
| 11 | Local authorities will have a duty to keep the streets clean , on pain of being taken to court by members of the public . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's an anti-Socialist plot , ’ said the party 's secretary-general , Tsuruo Yamaguchi , threatening to take the magazine to court . |
| 13 | They were to be very ‘ diplomatic ’ with recalcitrant poor peasants , and on no account were they to take to court more than a small minority in any one area , even if a majority were guilty . |
| 14 | One civil servant , at least , managed to escape the net when Clive Ponting , a Ministry of Defence official who had leaked documents about apparent ministerial lies on the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War , was acquitted by a jury when the case came to court . |
| 15 | I 'm going to take them to court and sue them |
| 16 | George Eastham backed by the PFA took Newcastle United to court for ‘ unjustifiable restraint on trade ’ and won the case , although significantly the logical implications of the judgement in respect of full freedom of contract for players was resisted by the Football League for nearly another twenty years . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not office-based — I 'll go to court duty one day , a prison visit the next and perhaps a home visit the following day , ’ she says . |
| 18 | Out of 700 cases that the PPL took to court last year , it is thought that as many as 100 could have been brought against hotels or restaurants . |
| 19 | ‘ They are not in the same cells , but they come together in the trucks going to court and in the exercise yard where they are often subject to physical and sexual abuse , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Dusan Zivkovic , aged 65 , a Yugoslav Serb who was handed to the communists by the British but managed to escape , said he had come to court to find the culprits and ‘ nail the bastards ’ who had sent his fellow countrymen to their deaths . |
| 21 | Courier , aged 19 , comes from the same stable as Agassi and has a similar big-hitting baseline game but a more diplomatic approach to court etiquette . |
| 22 | Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order . |
| 23 | THE man responsible for uncovering South Africa 's hit-squad scandal , the condemned security branch policeman Almond Nofomela , is being brought to court tomorrow by the authorities who are seemingly intent on hurrying him on to his postponed appointment with the hangman . |
| 24 | The judge 's decision means that the case will not come to court before early 1991 , when the issues will be decided in the context of the individual cases . |
| 25 | The law provides for central government approval in the hiring and firing of editors and says journalists should reveal the source of their information on request to court authorities . |
| 26 | [ But ] I do n't want an agreement where I have to apply to court to get them out . |
| 27 | This time the losers , including the cities of New York , Los Angeles , Chicago and Houston , and the US Conference of Mayors , have taken the bureau to court to try to make it agree to change its initial 1990 findings and to add in its estimated under-count . |
| 28 | AT&T fought hard to hang on to its equipment businesses through telephone deregulation — the Justice Department took the firm to court on the issue in 1949 and again in 1974 . |
| 29 | SEC staffers are looking for a suitable test case to take to court . |
| 30 | And so to court |