noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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legal
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In Regina v Widdowson, a legal technicality saves the defendant - rather luckily - from a criminal indictment. 1.
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He thinks the issue could be revisited through a legal technicality .
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But the issue penetrates, or ought to, rather deeper than the fine weave of legal technicality .
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A City of London County Court judge rejected the jail application on a legal technicality .
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He pilots company promoters through the legal technicalities of forming companies.
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And Lord Hodson was concerned primarily with the substantive merits and demerits of the Bill, not with its legal technicalities .
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All works in progress had ceased due to complicated legal technicalities .
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This went beyond a legal technicality , Susan realised.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Baxter was released on a technicality because his" offence " was committed in the city, and only a city judge had the authority to sign the warrant.
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The vote was declared invalid because of a technicality .
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Unless you're an experienced musician, you wouldn't be able to explain the technicalities of the music.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the case was dropped on a technicality .
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But the issue penetrates, or ought to, rather deeper than the fine weave of legal technicality .
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It is perhaps a technicality whether a certain part of the storage space is to be regarded as internal or external.
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It is protected from public scrutiny by the technicality of its jargon.
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Much may hinge upon points that the typical executive might understandably regard as irritating technicalities.
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Shorn of its technicalities, the essence is this: You place electrons in a magnetic trap.
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When the psycho is caught, then let go on a technicality , Mom takes matters into her own hands.
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While the convictions were overturned on a technicality , Warner argued that the felonies made him unsuitable for the Senate.