Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] on charges " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the summer 's inquiries , MPs decided to commit Mr Papandreou and a handful of ex-colleagues for trial on charges of ordering telephone tapping and accepting bribes . |
| 2 | On Sept. 3 a court sentenced 26 Moslem militants to lengthy terms of imprisonment on charges of attempting to murder two former Interior Ministers and a journalist . |
| 3 | ( Abdala Bucaram spent much of 1990 in exile on charges , since dropped , of corruption as mayor of Guayaquil ; his sister is mayor now . ) |
| 4 | Mr Devaty was sentenced in August to 20 months in jail on charges of incitement connected with the petition . |
| 5 | Daniel Carey returned to Frizingley as its Chartist Candidate entirely by chance , the gentleman who had originally been selected to fight the by-election having taken up a longish residence in jail on charges of plug-drawing and helping to demolish a workhouse near Rochdale . |
| 6 | October 25 : Gibraltar lawyer James Levy appears in court on charges of conspiracy involving the use of false accounting departments . |
| 7 | This afternoon Kevin , his brother Ian and an American business associate appeared in court on charges of fraud involving more than a hundred and thirty five million pounds . |
| 8 | Suspect Ricondall ‘ Rico ’ Wiggins ( 19 ) , appeared in court on charges of armed robbery and first degree murder . |
| 9 | One traveller , Lisa Miller , is due to appear in court on charges of criminal trespass dating back several months . |
| 10 | TWO men have appeared in court on charges following a gang fight and shooting at the Market Trader pub , Kirkby . |
| 11 | In Belfast , a brother of Gerry Adams , West Belfast Sinn Fein MP , was remanded in custody on charges arising from a gun attack on an RUC station last weekend . |
| 12 | They had spent two years in custody on charges of treason , murder and kidnapping in connection with the attempted coup in July-August 1990 [ see pp. 37606-07 ; 38239 ] . |
| 13 | In recent weeks , many opposition politicians had campaigned for guarantees of future immunity from prosecution on charges of corruption . |
| 14 | The Home Office said all five were on trial on charges connected with the Strangeways riot . |
| 15 | Detainees have often been held for weeks or months without access to defence lawyers before being brought to trial on charges such as rebellion , illegal association and ‘ enemy propaganda ’ ( a charge brought against those accused of producing , distributing or possessing any information regarded as subversive by the authorities ) . |
| 16 | On Dec. 11 , 1989 , by a vote of 178 to 91 , the European Parliament ( EP ) agreed to a request from Pierre Arpaillange , the French Minister of Justice , to allow Le Pen ( who was also an MEP ) to be brought to trial on charges of slandering in September 1988 the French Minister of State for Civil Service and Administrative Reforms , Michel Durafour , in a pun with anti-Jewish overtones [ see p. 36230 ] . |
| 17 | Attempts were made to bring Erich Honecker , the former East German party and government leader , to trial on charges of giving the " shoot-to-kill " order to guards preventing illegal border-crossings , but the Soviet Union , where Honecker and his wife were , refused to hand him over to the German authorities [ see pp. 37828-29 ; 38110 ; for June sentencing of Harry Tisch see pp. 37967 ; 38298 ] . |
| 18 | On Dec. 3 , 1991 , the Supreme Court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to bring the former President and senator for life , Alan García Pérez , to trial on charges of illegal enrichment during his 1985-90 period in office . |
| 19 | But the worst offenders go to court on charges of dangerous driving and they face stiff fines and a possible jail sentence . |