adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
legally bound
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You are legally bound to report the accident.
legally responsible
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The airline is legally responsible for the safety of its passengers.
medically/legally qualified
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Decisions about such measures must rest with medically qualified personnel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
binding
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Entry to this competition implies acceptance of the rules as final and legally binding .
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As soon as a contract becomes legally binding , performance ceases to be optional, thereby curtailing individual autonomy.
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This calls for the adoption of much stricter and legally binding standards.
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Explain whether this is a legally binding contract and whether or not Wilson Decorators must supply materials and receive £800. 4.
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But there is already a head of steam in parliament to make the proposed voluntary takeover code legally binding .
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But the new measures are not legally binding .
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It would hear appeals involving assessments, chaired by a lawyer, and decisions would be legally binding .
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When a director dies, without a legally binding agreement his or her shares will not automatically to the surviving directors.
enforceable
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A gambling debt is not legally enforceable .
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The House of Lords accepted that there was a legally enforceable obligation of confidence in certain relationships.
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A code of practice is not legally enforceable , like a statutory instrument, for example.
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Clearly, the development of futures markets in such countries has to wait until futures contracts are legally enforceable .
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For example, legally enforceable rules need to be applied to crops such as genetically altered, frost-resistant potatoes.
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Such an agreement would not, of course, be legally enforceable .
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Sections 2-3 are expressly restricted to legally enforceable liabilities.
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Labour would insist on legally enforceable democracy in a union's internal affairs.
liable
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They discover to their horror that they are still legally liable .
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In contrast, partners are legally liable for all debts and unpaid bills of the partnership.
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In that instance, the insurer was legally liable for the loss.
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The corporation could be legally liable !
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The money comprised contributions from member States, which maintained their position of not being legally liable .
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Neither was the Government legally liable to pay compensation, he said.
responsible
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If the Policyholder is legally responsible , there would be cover.
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The skipper is legally responsible for your safety and has the final say over where you go.
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Imagine our horror at the thought that we might now be held legally responsible for the tragic results of an inadequate diet.
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Legal remedies can ensure that landlords carry out the works for which they are legally responsible .
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Remember, that as the carrier, you remain legally responsible for the actions of your subcontract haulier.
■ VERB
aid
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The plaintiff had been legally aided throughout.
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In certain circumstances an unassisted party may be awarded costs from the legal aid fund if his opponent is legally aided.
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As to costs, the applicants are legally aided .
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The legally aided action is likely to cost taxpayers more than £500,000.
allow
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Agencies and landlords are not legally allowed to discriminate on grounds of race but ways are invariably found around this.
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The fact that literal retaliation by bodily mutilation was legally allowed does not necessarily mean it was practised.
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A man was legally allowed to savour his first curry for three months.
become
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As soon as a contract becomes legally binding, performance ceases to be optional, thereby curtailing individual autonomy.
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His vision was impaired in 1984 due to retinitis pigmentosa and he became legally blind in 1987.
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I won't be held by a promise that was unfairly extracted from me before I legally became an adult.
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It became legally possible for the church to own property.
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Although the farmers have the right to appeal, the land legally became government property once the orders were served.
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The Independent Television Commission codes are due to become legally enforced on 1 January 1993.
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Should some one attack you with a tennis racket and you calmly blast them with a shotgun, then you legally become unreasonable.
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A warranty becomes legally binding once you've paid for your machine.
bind
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Talks resume next week in Bonn on legally binding emission reduction targets that Washington has rejected.
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Janzen offers something besides going to court: mediation and arbitration services that are just as legally binding .
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Home helps felt that they are being legally bound not to care!
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The goal is to write a legally binding treaty that would be signed in December by as many countries as possible.
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Although these communications are not legally binding , they do give member states strong guidance on legal and taxation issues.
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You must also sign a written contract and receive a copy of it for the contract to be legally binding .
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To make it legally binding the protocol requires ratification by countries with at least 55 % of the developed world's emissions.
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There were indications last week that Yeltsin had dropped his insistence that this be a legally binding document.
enforce
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In fact most of the rules we follow in our social lives are not legally enforced , but they are rules nevertheless.
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Ministers are considering providing subsidies to people in high-risk categories, as well as a legally enforce able moratorium.
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To compel a pupil to obey a teacher makes no sense without placing it in the context of compulsory schooling enforced legally .
hold
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Imagine our horror at the thought that we might now be held legally responsible for the tragic results of an inadequate diet.
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Should the 12,090 legally held handguns not be the first to go?
oblige
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Because of this, the tobacco industry has been legally obliged for some years now to print health warnings on packets.
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Local authorities are legally obliged to record unmet needs and disclose details of these.
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Building societies are legally obliged to sell repossessed properties at the best possible price.
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But that is far from saying that the testator's son is to be legally obliged to carry it out.
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But county councils aren't legally obliged to provide facilities for travellers, and they can't use camps for gipsy families.
represent
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At present many more employers than employees are legally represented , and it is not uncommon for counsel to appear for employers.
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The person must be told that he may be legally represented .
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Where the applicant has no representation and the respondent is legally represented the applicant's probability of success is reduced to 10%.
require
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Even if women are raped, he says, they should be legally required to bear the children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Government employees cannot legally go on strike.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A gambling debt is not legally enforceable.
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Entry to this competition implies acceptance of the rules as final and legally binding.
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Public campaigners fear that Celera's control of the code, legally secured with patents, could impede breakthroughs by other researchers.
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Recycled water can never be legally considered sewage.
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Saenz said he doubts that state officials can legally show that these programs are wholly state funded.
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The normal exercise of political authority is by the making of laws and legally binding orders.
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The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum, and until 1988 was the one subject legally required.