Example sentences of "the [noun] that [pers pn] had acted " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trial judge rejected this submission , whereupon the defendant pleaded guilty to count 4 , but defended himself on count 5 on the basis that he had acted under duress . |
| 2 | He rejected the charge that he had acted with bias against the UK . |
| 3 | When the Daily Mail published the commission 's findings , Norris took legal action against the paper , then dropped it in favour of a libel suit against the FA , to challenge the suggestion that he had acted dishonestly . |
| 4 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |
| 5 | The magistrate dismissed the case against Lord Harlech and Stephen Murphy on the grounds that they had acted in good faith and with due care and attention to the issues involved . |
| 6 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 7 | He over-simplified American reactions with his comment that they " particularly resented the fact that we had acted on our own without American permission or concurrence . " |
| 8 | Sir Hilary " Hal " Miller , a senior Conservative MP , told the House that he had acted on behalf of WS during the past few years , and had warned the DTI , the Defence Ministry and an unidentified " third agency " on a number of occasions about suspicious Iraqi orders . |