Example sentences of "been [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One member of the House of Lords put it succinctly in 1884 : ‘ Very few of their Lordships … had not , when young men , been guilty of immorality . |
| 2 | The first person must have been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Act or would have been but for a defence in sections 24 or 25 , Coupe v. Guyett ( 1973 D.C. ) . |
| 3 | Section 40 , like section 23 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ( paragraph 16–26 above ) , deals with the situation where A commits an offence because of the fault of B. It enables B to be convicted where A has been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Consumer Protection Act or would have been one but for one of the statutory defences . |
| 4 | At this meeting the dauphin may have implied that the duke , whose reluctance to adopt a strongly anti-English stance was generally recognised , had been guilty of treason to the French crown . |
| 5 | Most of the rules are applied strictly and it is hard to imagine any outcome more frustrating than for your legitimate claim to fail simply because you have been guilty of delay . |
| 6 | Although Sontag ( 1979 ) may have been guilty of exaggeration in her claim that Benjamin 's most important influence came from surrealism , it is certain that he was enthusiastic about surrealism both as a movement in the arts and as often explicit politics . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal has taken the matter a step further in Shomer v B&R Residential Lettings Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 2 , by holding that in making the comparison with a hypothetical sick man , all relevant circumstances must be taken into account so that where , as in this case , there had been misconduct by the pregnant woman , the correct comparison was with a sick man who had also been guilty of misconduct . |
| 8 | when a partner has been guilty of misconduct likely to be harmful to the firm 's business ; |
| 9 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 10 | ‘ The disciplinary committee found that Geoff Blackburn had been guilty of misconduct during the match . |
| 11 | The church 's attitude to Lynch stands in marked contrast to its harbouring of some Catholic priests who have in fact been guilty of child abuse . |
| 12 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 13 | ‘ I should not be alive today if I had ever been guilty of complacency or carelessness , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Part of the blame for that has to be accepted by the industry , which has been guilty of complacency . |
| 15 | On July 7 protesters had claimed in Trinidad , the capital of Beni , that the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) and the local anti-drug Umopar police had been guilty of abuses against the local population . |
| 16 | Lapper had certainly been guilty of conceit ( a wrought iron gate had been ordered with senior managers ' initials worked into it ) , but the sentence was interpreted as a politically motivated attack on wastrel public corporations , and was widely felt to be unjust . |
| 17 | He would thus have been guilty of perjury if he had submitted them when they were not to the best of his knowledge correct and complete . |
| 18 | On that footing the taxi driver could have been guilty of larceny by a trick ( in old-fashioned terms ) , so as to be guilty of theft under any interpretation of section 1(1) . |
| 19 | Publication of the report by the Observer in March this year caused a furore and prompted a special committee of Law Lords to decide whether Lonrho had been guilty of contempt of court before its appeal to the House of Lords on the Fraser bid . |
| 20 | Kirkman Finlay who was represented by an advocate at the district meeting complained that his opponent had been guilty of bribery and corruption and had thereby disqualified himself . |
| 21 | In a remarkable case , very much of our times , the applicants lived in Belfast and had been guilty of criminal and anti-social activities . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the transaction might be upset if the debtor had acted as agent for the lender and had been guilty of misrepresentation or undue influence . |
| 23 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 24 | Relationships between practices and the primary care division in Grampian have traditionally been close and officials have , on the whole , been supportive of efforts to ensure high standards of general practice . |
| 25 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |
| 26 | Another rare loss has been that of Mark Weedon , the Managing Director in London until the autumn of 1988 , now at Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 27 | The thought of the forthcoming windfall reminded Rev. Levitt that his last wedding had in fact been that of Mrs Cohen 's elder daughter . |
| 28 | He could have sworn that the voice had been that of Christine Ashdown . ) |
| 29 | In the last decade a new basis for argument has been that of consumerism and accountability . |
| 30 | In more recent times , the most highly developed exposition has been that of Wilhelm Reich ( 1897–1957 ) . |