Example sentences of "had [been] properly [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 2 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 3 | The canvases had been properly relined in the nineteenth century and only the ‘ Hosea ’ and ‘ Obadiah ’ required new linings . |
| 4 | ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’ |
| 5 | The first policeman on the scene of the crash says both children had been properly strapped into the safety seats before the accident : |
| 6 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 7 | Instead he was named Panos and had been properly adopted by a Greek couple . |
| 8 | He was clear that International Relations was a science , brought into existence by a perceived need to rid the international system of an evil — war — but dominated by a concern with eradicating the evil before it had been properly understood . |
| 9 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 10 | The judge was satisfied , as he made clear , that they had been properly served with the proceedings throughout and no proper explanation of their absence was vouchsafed by their solicitor , who appeared at the hearing on their behalf . |
| 11 | Curiously , the clause in Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes was almost certainly a penalty and unenforceable even if it had been properly incorporated ( see paragraph 14–13 below ) . |
| 12 | ( i ) The aircraft had been properly maintained and its documentation was in order . |
| 13 | It explained that the test should not affect an engine which had been properly maintained , and said any damage resulting from the test would be the liability of the owner or the testing station . |
| 14 | What had happened , it later emerged , was that British Nuclear Fuels had accidentally released a quantity of a contaminated solvent called Purex into the sea before it had been properly treated . |
| 15 | If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble . |
| 16 | In the present proceedings , as counsel has pointed out , the respondent 's chances of purging his contempt at an early stage were not high , even if he had been properly informed of his right to make the attempt , but that is to confuse the existence of a right with its strength . |
| 17 | A new life with him , before the old had been properly buried . |
| 18 | The allegations were dismissed on the same day by an Egyptian Interior Ministry official , who cited a small number of cases of abuses by policemen but claimed that they had been properly investigated . |
| 19 | But , as stated in Anderson v. The Queen , at p. 108 , per Lord Guest ‘ in cases of murder great care must be taken to see that there has been no miscarriage of justice ’ and the test , a strict one , has been described in Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1935 ] A.C. 462 , 482–483 , per Viscount Sankey L.C. as whether ‘ if the jury had been properly directed they would have inevitably have come to the same conclusion ’ and in Stirland v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1944 ] A.C. 315 , 312 , per Viscount Simon L.C. , as involving ‘ a situation where a reasonable jury , after being properly directed , would , on the evidence properly admissible , without doubt convict . ’ |
| 20 | The administration in the United States ( which had never formally recognized the incorporation of the three Baltic republics into the Soviet Union ) on March 12 ruled out such recognition until independence had been properly negotiated with the Soviet authorities , and it called on the latter to respect Lithuania 's declaration , and on all parties to avoid violence . |
| 21 | While baptism was the main sacrament that could be performed by lay persons , the Church counselled the clergy to check that it had been properly performed . |
| 22 | Her ankle had been properly bandaged and she had been given pain-killers and ordered to keep off her foot as much as possible . |
| 23 | In another case , the Court of Appeal held that a prosecution had been properly discontinued when a defendant had taken out a private prosecution for perjury against a witness who had given evidence against him at committal proceedings . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the process of converting names into dealing clients was time-consuming and costly , although it would have been far less economical still if the Department of Trade 's regulations had been properly adhered to . |
| 25 | It was a pretty little garden — or at feast , it could have been , if it had been properly looked after . |
| 26 | Sulphur hexafluoride , which normally filled the tower as an insulator , should have been removed beforehand but they mistakenly began work before the tower had been properly vented . |