Example sentences of "[art] defendant had [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them . |
| 2 | Galliher , the defendant had been served with the writ in England . |
| 3 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 4 | The defendant had been convicted under two different statutes of two offences which both arose out of essentially the same facts . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal ( Lord Lowry dissenting ) , that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner of goods or consented to by him could amount to an appropriation of the goods within section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 where such authority or consent had been obtained by deception ; and that , accordingly , the defendant had been rightly convicted of theft ( post , pp. 1073F , 1076G–H , 1080C–F , 1081C–D , 1109F , 1111E ) . |
| 6 | Counsel 's second argument was that all the evidence presented to the court was that the defendant had been seen engaging in actual violence , but not threatening it , as the section requires , On this submission the Court concluded that there was sufficient evidence in the narrative presented to the jury from which they were entitled to conclude that there was threatening behaviour . |
| 7 | The defendant had been told by the police to leave the scene outside a party where he had been swearing and shouting , which he grudgingly did , continuing to use foul language . |
| 8 | The decision ended a trial which the government of Mexico had repeatedly denounced as illegal on the grounds that the defendant had been forcibly abducted and taken to the USA in violation of the US-Mexican extradition treaty . |
| 9 | The material facts are that , some time before the notice was served , the defendant had been knowingly and actively permitting the house to be used as a brothel … |
| 10 | The defendant had been employed by the company as its compliance officer ; his duty it was to supervise the procedures and practices of the plaintiff so as to secure fulfilment of the regulatory requirements imposed by FIMBRA . |
| 11 | The defendant had been a director of plaintiffs for 13 years and had been in charge of the development and sales of a certain type of heater . |
| 12 | But the court heard that after the defendant had been left alone on the ward with Katie for about ten minutes , she had turned blue and stopped breathing . |
| 13 | The court was influenced by evidence pointing to the fact that the defendants had been negligent and it was stated that had steps been taken to mitigate the nuisance , the Council would not have found itself in the position it was now in . |
| 14 | The background to this injunction , as is apparent from its terms , was that the defendants had been ordered by a subpoena duces tecum issued in New York on 24 July 1990 to produce the documents referred to in the injunction . |
| 15 | Even if a breach of fiduciary duty by the defendants had been proved , they would not thereby have lost their right to commission unless they had acted dishonestly , and the plaintiff did not allege , nor did the judge find , any bad faith by the defendants ( post , p. 944C ) . |
| 16 | As to the defendants ' claim for commission , even if a breach of fiduciary duty by the defendants had been proved , they would not thereby have lost their right to commission unless they had acted dishonestly . |
| 17 | Although it was found that the defendants had been at fault , Atkinson J. considered that , irrespective of this , the defendants would have been liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 18 | Arguing that the defendants had been accused simply because they were non-white , the defence dismissed the confessions ( which the youths themselves retracted ) as having been extracted under police duress . |
| 19 | The defendants had been accused of orchestrating an illegal scheme to boost the value of Guinness shares above their normal market levels , at the time of Guinness 's ultimately successful takeover bid for the Distillers Company in 1986 . |
| 20 | One of the defendants had been Ivan " Janez " Jansa , who was now Slovenia 's defence minister and an advocate of setting up a separate Slovene army . |
| 21 | However , in that case the defendants had been aware of the plaintiff 's medical evidence and to avoid possible objections at trial it is good practice to amend to plead any substantial changes to the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 22 | The defendants had been employed as executives by the plaintiffs . |
| 23 | 612 where it was held that a defendant had been validly committed for trial by justices notwithstanding that they had previously embarked on a summary trial but decided before the summary trial was concluded that in the circumstances they should not deal with the case and should commit the defendant for trial . |