Example sentences of "[subord] give evidence " in BNC.

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1 So , if gives evidence , having become competent because he has pleaded guilty , erm , then we can cross-examine him , but we are in difficulties if we then bring up his previous convictions attack his credibility .
2 The public was incensed against Tawell and emotions ran high , inflamed by the melodrama of Sara 's mothers , fainting theatrically while giving evidence .
3 He made the claim while giving evidence to the Employment Select Committee into events .
4 He made the claim while giving evidence to the Employment Select Committee , which is looking at the way the closure programme was handled .
5 It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 .
6 Its terms were so depressingly restrictive — it was not to consider the guilt or innocence of Meehan or Waddell — that the Meehan Committee and Meehan himself debated whether to give evidence to it or not .
7 Thomas himself mentioned a figure of 600,000 cubic yards of earth moved when giving evidence at the inquest on one of his workmen killed on the site .
8 The comparison between the canals and railways was most graphically drawn by Mr W.F. Martin of the Mountsorrel Granite Company , one of the companies that could conceivably have benefited much from an improved canal , when giving evidence to the Royal Commission of 1906 .
9 They were permitted into it only when giving evidence and not more than one at a time .
10 She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere .
11 No statement which you make during the interview may be given in evidence against you unless : ( a ) you are prosecuted for making a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular ; or ( b ) you are prosecuted for some other offence and when giving evidence , you make a statement which is inconsistent with a statement made during the interview .
12 The deceased 's closest friend at the time of his death appears to have been the first defendant , a man now in his forties , who , when giving evidence , described himself as an unemployed seaman .
13 When giving evidence to the PCA , the then permanent secretary to the Department agreed that that situation could not be defended , so we decided to put it right .
14 SCREENS to shield child witnesses when giving evidence against adults they know and fear are to be installed at Darlington magistrates court .
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