Example sentences of "court [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She can stay on court for 6 or 7 hours .
2 Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’
3 If they still do not pay , the council can apply to the magistrates court for a summons to be served .
4 ABE NATHAN , the former RAF Spitfire pilot who for 23 years has led an often lonely crusade for peace , was jailed for six months yesterday by a Ramla court for breaking an Israeli anti-terrorism law by meeting the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , in September last year .
5 The Sussex youngster was on court for only 52 minutes for her 6-2 , 6-1 triumph .
6 It is the first time the inspectorate has taken the board to court for an alleged lapse of safety .
7 His lawyers yesterday applied to the Manchester High Court for an injunction to halt the use of confidential information .
8 The Crown Prosecution Service will ‘ continue the fight ’ to get at least limited rights of audience in the Crown Court for its lawyers once the new advisory committee for legal education and conduct is set up under the Government 's White Paper plans for the legal profession , Fiona King , a recruitment specialist at the service said yesterday .
9 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 .
10 If they refuse , the lawyers say they will begin proceedings in the High Court for damages .
11 James Palmer , who bungled an attempt to push his neighbour over a cliff in Exmouth , Devon , was jailed yesterday by Bristol Crown Court for 10 years .
12 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 .
13 Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda .
14 Ms Mitchell was jailed for three years on Wednesday at Cambridge crown court for possessing and supplying cocaine .
15 He had asked the court for a ruling after Judge Robert Lymbery and Judge Kenneth Machin excluded the public from pre-trial hearings in September .
16 HOSPITAL consultants yesterday won permission in the High Court for a judicial review of the Government 's right to spend money on its health service shake-up in advance of legislation .
17 Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order .
18 The central plank of the proposals is to give the county court the power to deal with a substantial numbers of cases , particularly injury cases , reserving the High Court for complex and specialist cases .
19 The central plank of the proposals is to give the county courts the power to deal with a substantial numbers of cases , particularly injury cases , reserving the High Court for complex and specialist cases .
20 Lachie Deuchar , the world Real Tennis No.2 , won the French Open Championship at Bordeaux yesterday , but was kept on court for 3 |C hours by an amateur , James Male , the world rackets champion .
21 Appearing in court for the Corporation of Lloyd 's , Stephen Ruttle said : ‘ Mr Cameron- Webb is marginally short on merits .
22 ‘ A company would be highly unlikely to get a journalist into court for the purpose of getting information about someone they had a claim against , ’ said Mr Michael , an American lawyer specialising in international media law .
23 Told me that one youth was in custody and another due to appear in court for the break-ins .
24 AFTER six years of tortuous legal battles , Mr Thomas Mathew was yesterday granted permission in the High Court for a full trial in his action against the solicitor who held his brother 's will for £4 million .
25 The film star Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages and apologies in the High Court for allegations in the News of the World in February 1988 that he held ‘ fervent Nazi and anti-semitic views ’ and was a ‘ secret admirer of Hitler ’ .
26 IF HISTORY is anything to go by , the legal action being brought in Britain by 3,000 patients against Wyeth ( a subsidiary of American Home Products ) and Switzerland 's Hoffmann-La Roche will either be dismissed or settled out of court for a pittance .
27 Or suppose that A has broken his contract to sell land to B ; here , again , B might have had to bring one action in a Common Law Court for damages , and another in the Chancery to compel specific performance .
28 Whether a mortgage is legal or equitable , the mortgagee can enforce his security by applying to the court for an order for foreclosure .
29 At any time after adjudication a bankrupt may apply to the court for his discharge , which , if granted , will enable him to start again , stripped of his property , but ( with certain exceptions ) free from any claim which might have been proved against him in the bankruptcy .
30 But on and after that date the Inheritance ( Family Provision ) Act 1938 gives to the dependants of a testator , and the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 gives to those of an intestate , power to apply to the court for a reasonable maintenance out of the estate , if such is not provided by the will , or the law of intestacy , or the combined operation of will and law where the intestacy was only partial .
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