Example sentences of "the [noun] [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 | At the time , Eurotunnel said the contracts had been placed on the assumption passengers would stay with cars , but that the rolling stock could be altered , if required , by the Safety Authority . |
| 17 | And that 's it and the contracts had been signed and everything and it was |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This was thought by trade unionists to be inconsistent with the leading decision of ten years before which had protected employers ' associations from conspiracy on the ground that the acts had been done ‘ with the lawful object of protecting and extending their trade and increasing their profits ’ without employing unlawful means , although the consequence had been to injure their competitors . |
| 20 | If the verdict of the experts had been that the artist was in truth Gabriele Munter , the claim would not have arisen . |
| 21 | With half the regiment away on exercise and some on the range , the remainder had been busy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The weather signs in the sky of the previous evening had foretold correctly but the Ben had been kind to me on my first ascent . |
| 25 | The consequence of the reduction had been to put resignalling work around Waterloo — which led to the Clapham disaster — two months behind schedule . |
| 26 | The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took . |
| 27 | The justices found that there had been a breach of the peace before the police arrived , because the mother-in-law of the person who had asked the defendant to leave the swings had been ‘ alarmed ’ by the defendant 's conduct . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But several readers had pointed out that if evil could not create , was only good perverted , then presumably the orcs had been by nature good and might in some way be saved ; Tolkien certainly balked at calling them ‘ irredeemable ’ , see Letters , pp. 195 , 355 . |
| 30 | This has become something of a cause célèbre in rock press folklore , but in truth the NME had been in worse scrapes before and no doubt has many more ahead . |