Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [be] liable to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your tenants , not you , will be liable for the community charge ( poll tax ) , but you may be liable to capital gains tax when you sell . |
| 2 | If you fail to provide a specimen you may be liable to prosecution . |
| 3 | If a proprietor were to trade as ‘ The Saucy Sausage ’ and failed to comply with either of the above requirements , then he or she would be liable to criminal prosecution for such a failure . |
| 4 | Under the revised code new principles were introduced , notably ( i ) the penal responsibility of legal entities of public and private law such as companies , trade unions and political parties ( a measure aimed at new crimes such as fraud , hazardous working conditions and pollution ) ; ( ii ) the concept of an " instigator " of a crime ( who would be liable to criminal prosecution and punishment on a similar basis as the " perpetrator " of a crime ) ; and ( iii ) the extension of " legitimate self-defence " to cover defence of property . |
| 5 | But erm most of the things that you will be de now the thing is about properties , that if you 've got a second property for example , or erm you know that 's not your primary residence , you would be liable to capital gain on a disposal , so if you 'd bought the house for ten thousand and you sold it five years later for twenty , then the gain er on that would be the twenty er the ten thousand that you 'd gained , less any indexation from nineteen eighty two , and they would then er er look at that as an allowance to use against it . |
| 6 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 7 | Spokesman Jim Sutton says they should be ‘ prosecuted with vigour ’ , but he reminds owners that they could be liable to the same fate if planners ever get tough . |
| 8 | Successful litigants who are vindictive , or excessively conscientious , or who fear that they will be liable to litigation themselves if they fail to extract everything possible from a claim , might well pursue the individual partners for their assets . |
| 9 | First , he may be liable to conviction of an offence under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 10 | Secondly , he may be liable to his purchaser for breach of a term of his contract — a matter to be considered in the next chapter . |
| 11 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 12 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 13 | Where D was intoxicated when committing the ‘ unlawful act ’ , it is likely that he would be liable to conviction for that offence despite his intoxicated state . |
| 14 | Moreover , apart from this defect , the election could not be regarded as complete until he had received his pallium from the pope , and he would be liable to deposition unless he received it within a year of his consecration . |
| 15 | N. B. The third party action between the solicitors and the barrister did not decide that he was negligent merely that if he was negligent he would be liable to the solicitors . |
| 16 | If convicted , he would be liable to a prison sentence of up to 25 years and a fine of up to $1,250,000 . |