Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] find guilty [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 2 | Franco Boretti , a proud pet-owner from Sicily , was taken to court and given two fines amounting to the equivalent of 67p each after his dog had been found guilty of committing ‘ an obscene act in a public place ’ . |
| 3 | It was believed that Humphrey was a farm worker employed on the Normanby Park estate in the distant Past and that he had been found guilty of stealing from his employers . |
| 4 | Christie , 24 , a former private in the Ulster Defence Regiment , had been found guilty of manslaughter . |
| 5 | When I was 12 years of age , a woman in one of the small villages not far from Riyadh had been found guilty of adultery . |
| 6 | In another murder case , after a 19-year-old youth had been found guilty of a stabbing murder in Oakley Street , a woman who had given crucial evidence against him was ill-treated by neighbours and eventually turned out of her Oakley Street home amidst ‘ a terrible scene ’ . |
| 7 | The SACHR felt it should be used as an incentive to good practice rather than as a weapon after an employer had been found guilty of a criminal offence ( discrimination ) . |
| 8 | On 14 October 1991 Mr. Butler had been found guilty of contempt of court by breaching the injunction granted on 12 September 1991 and was sentenced to four weeks in prison , the sentence being suspended for six months . |
| 9 | Fama , who had been found guilty of shooting Hawkins as he entered the predominantly white area of Bensonhurst , ostensibly to buy a used car , was sentenced to 33@2/3 years to life . |
| 10 | He had been found guilty of ordering security forces to fire on demonstrators in Sibiu during the December 1989 revolution , resulting in 89 deaths . |
| 11 | A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 . |
| 12 | They had been found guilty of five murders , having entered a house of some neighbouring villagers earlier in the month and clubbed to death five members of one family . |
| 13 | Responding to foreign criticisms of the heavier sentences handed down to civilians as compared with those passed on soldiers following the massacre [ see pp. 38769 ; 38965 ] , the ABRI spokesman said that the civilians had been convicted of " subversive acts " against the Indonesian authorities , while the soldiers had been found guilty of acting beyond their authority in dealing with the demonstrators . |
| 14 | Polisario sources claimed that in a recent internal investigation he had been found guilty of corruption and diversion of funds . |
| 15 | Harris , of Shieldhall Road , West Drumoyne , Glasgow , had been found guilty of assaulting Mr Brown and attempting to murder him on 18 February last year in Shieldhall Road . |
| 16 | OWING to an error in a report supplied by a news agency in last night 's Echo , it was wrongly stated that Mr Bryan Williams , of Wye Street , Walton , Liverpool , had been found guilty of conspiracy to rob and sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 17 | Diro , suspended from government duties since April , had been found guilty on Sept. 27 by a specially appointed tribunal , after hearings lasting nearly four years [ see p. 36936 for August 1988 Supreme Court ruling against the bringing of earlier perjury charges ] , on 81 charges of corruption . |
| 18 | He had been found guilty by inferred accusation , and this had ruined his career . |
| 19 | He began by saying that seven years earlier Meehan had been found guilty by a jury ‘ on evidence which was amply justified ’ , and then went on : ‘ Some public support was whipped up over the years for reasons which were not entirely clear and for motives which might be imagined . ’ |
| 20 | Winnie Mandela told supporters that she had been found guilty by the media . |
| 21 | In December 1991 Keating had been found guilty in a Californian state court on 17 counts of fraud [ see p. 38669 ] . |
| 22 | Noriega had been found guilty in April on eight charges following a seven-month trial [ see p. 38857 ] . |