Example sentences of "[vb pp] guilty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paton was also banned from driving for ten years and fined £100 on separate driving charges to which he had pled guilty earlier . |
| 2 | Kevin Drummond , QC , for McMartin , said the accused had gone to the police with his parents almost immediately and he had pled guilty to greatly reduced charges . |
| 3 | Two other hackers , Karl Strickland , 22 , of Childhall Road , Liverpool , and Neil Woods , 26 , of Broadway , Chadderton , Oldham , have already pled guilty to dishonestly obtaining information and will be sentenced later . |
| 4 | Last month , David Walters , 56 , former director of the Institute of Retail Studies and Professor of Retailing at Stirling , had pled guilty to defrauding the university of £14,631 and attempting to defraud it of £345 . |
| 5 | Philip Coles , 37 , of Clackmannanshire , had pled guilty last month to conspiracy to obtain money by deception . |
| 6 | At a later hearing Guppy had pled guilty to three charges of falsely claiming he was entitled to repayment of VAT for bogus gold bullion exports , and Marsh pled guilty to one charge . |
| 7 | An argument often made in their briefs , against random testing in particular , is that it reverses the normal presumption of innocence : an employee is deemed guilty unless he can prove himself innocent by producing ‘ clean ’ urine . |
| 8 | If what they discuss and teach is considered to be a danger to the state , they may be deemed guilty of ‘ thought crimes ’ . |
| 9 | The campaign relies on a provision in the Water Resources Act 1991 , under which company directors are deemed guilty of an offence if their company causes pollution with their " consent or connivance " or if it is " attributable to any neglect " on their part . |
| 10 | The Court declared that " laws must be made in advance of a crime , not afterwards " and that " only the [ former communist ] state and not the individual " could be " considered guilty " . |
| 11 | Thus I claim that for decades we have attempted to change the nature of the art in order to meet the requirements of child-centred education — and have felt guilty because it does not work . |
| 12 | Martha dissolved into tears and burst out , ‘ I 've never dared to tell anyone until now , but I 've felt guilty ever since . ’ |
| 13 | She must have felt guilty about not inviting me as she gave me £1 to get myself home . |
| 14 | Have you ever felt guilty about your drinking ? |
| 15 | For example , there has always been a part of me which has felt guilty about killing Blyth , Paul and Esmerelda . |
| 16 | If she had not examined , she would have felt guilty . |
| 17 | Felt guilty as hell the first time I went on there ! |
| 18 | Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity . |
| 19 | And if it goes the other way , and he 's called guilty of murder , then , worse , he 'll hang . ’ |
| 20 | But some homosexuals in the church — especially in America — have exchanged guilty , fervid prayers for support groups and gay pride marches . |
| 21 | If not , the accused was pronounced guilty and the priest might , therefore , be associated with a sentence of death . |
| 22 | He had first been found guilty of setting fire to an armoured personnel carrier commandeered by students and a car during the 19898 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing . |
| 23 | He was found guilty and sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | At their trial in Pristina in February 1989 , all were found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 25 | If you are found guilty , the trial enters into its next very complicated part — the sentencing phase . |
| 26 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 27 | Victoria Carrington , 23 , of Northolt , west London , a convent-educated stockbroker who attacked a mother and daughter on an Underground train after they knocked into her newspaper was fined £400 by Knightsbridge magistrates and ordered to pay £600 compensation after being found guilty of assault . |
| 28 | He was found guilty of conspiracy to murder but not guilty of attempted murder . |
| 29 | All humbug is punished sooner or later ; but Nemesis is notoriously slow , and it was a quarter of a century before she struck and the United Kingdom found itself , to the malicious glee of her neighbours , the first signatory state to the Convention to be found guilty of a breach of its terms , in Ulster in 1971 . |
| 30 | 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 . |