Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 2 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 3 | The response had been massive strikes in the public sector . |
| 4 | The purchaser will not necessarily wish to be paid as if the income had been taxed . |
| 5 | Mr Smith said when the Premier had been quizzed about poverty in Britain recently he had snapped back : ‘ What poverty ? ’ |
| 6 | Valeri said he had found a tent and various items on the ridge , which they were attempting , so I made a list of them and he drew a sketch map of the location where the tent had been found . |
| 7 | I remember seeing an early plan ( of the Bois de Boulogne ) on which the rivers and other parts of the park had been painted green , in watercolour , by the august consort of the Emperor . |
| 8 | Both Norman Tebbit and John Wakeham were now back after the Grand Hotel blast and the opportunity had been taken to arrange a Cabinet photograph . |
| 9 | She had wanted to meet the young man again , but now the opportunity had been afforded her she had not been confident enough to accept it . |
| 10 | Most of them , she observed , were Asian or Caribbean , in contrast to the machine shop where the majority had been white . |
| 11 | Several could not recall subscribing to Channel 7 ; one had refused to subscribe ; one had signed up for a trial period at some point ; and the majority had been unhappy with the service . |
| 12 | The majority had been of wood and most of these were lost through fire . |
| 13 | The majority cited was not in fact the Belorussian Communists , since Russians predominated : the reference was to the Belorussian ethnic majority in the republic 's population . |
| 14 | The Stand had been taken to the recent Funeral Service Exhibition at Mottram Hall . |
| 15 | Southern analysis of stable transformants showed that the plasmid had been integrated into the tubulin locus by homologous recombination . |
| 16 | They received no damages for the loss of some exceptionally lucrative government dyeing contracts which they would haze secured if the boiler had been delivered on time . |
| 17 | With half the regiment away on exercise and some on the range , the remainder had been busy . |
| 18 | It was found that while the annual revenue was about $400,000 , there was only about $1,000 in the account ; John Piper had received $20,000 as his percentage and $8,000 as his salary , and the remainder had been frittered away by lax and costly administration . |
| 19 | I received twenty completed record sheets — and a load of very apologetic letters explaining why the remainder had been unable to do justice to the trial . |
| 20 | The consequence of the reduction had been to put resignalling work around Waterloo — which led to the Clapham disaster — two months behind schedule . |
| 21 | One problem encountered by the Ombudsman had been the extent of canvassing and lobbying of individual councillors by applicants for planning permission in a ‘ clandestine ’ process to influence decision makers . |
| 22 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 23 | If the link had been spotted , Sir Anthony concluded , Barlow Clowes 's operations would have been halted in 1984 . |
| 24 | A few weeks later , when the link had been made between Willi and his mother , who lived in Rochdale , the Movement collected money for the rest of his journey . |
| 25 | With the passing of Law and Long there were no Unionists in the cabinet who had both authority and detachment ; the link had been broken , but its importance was demonstrated with devastating effect when both intervened to influence the events of October 1922 . |
| 26 | She remembered the dark movement she had seen just before the link had been severed . |
| 27 | Committee chairman , Coun Handel Morgan , said the funding had been earmarked in the education committee estimates but was deleted by the policy committee and full county council . |
| 28 | On one occasion Lord Mountbatten had found him licking his wounds and asked if the Prince had been upsetting him . |
| 29 | During 1981 the Prince had been patron of the International Year of Disabled People , and met yet another vast group of people who suffered enormous hardship and prejudice , and whom society did not seem to care about . |
| 30 | Buckingham Palace last night insisted the prince had been misinterpreted . |