Example sentences of "[be] found [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Young motorists face a Government clampdown including having to display a special plate to show they 're new to driving and the possibility of having to pass a tough new test if they 're found guilty of serious traffic offences . |
2 | Nobody 's really a missing person till they 're found dead , and then they 're not missing any more . ’ |
3 | Sometimes they are found wanting , under suspicion of triggering off cosmetic acne and blocked pores . |
4 | The size of the claims , and the fact that the defendants can not recover their costs if they are found innocent , persuade many firms to settle out of court . |
5 | If you are found guilty , the trial enters into its next very complicated part — the sentencing phase . |
6 | Defendants who are found guilty of any drug-selling offence may be stripped of all their assets , including any means of legitimate livelihood , on the presumption that all their wealth is the proceeds of crime . |
7 | However , it is important to bear in mind that while most people break some , if not many , of the laws of their society , few people are found guilty of criminal offences . |
8 | Furthermore , the typical penalties for those individuals and organisations who are found guilty of corporate crime do little to deter the would-be criminal . |
9 | Having said that , as the figures given above indicate , the younger age groups , the 14 to under 17 's followed closely by the 17 to under 21's , contain far higher proportions of people who are found guilty of , or cautioned for , criminal offences than do older age groups . |
10 | Furthermore , 12 per cent of males compared to 2 per cent of females are found guilty of , or cautioned for , criminal offences by the age of 17 . |
11 | ‘ If you are found guilty , ’ he told me , ‘ they are going to put you away . ’ |
12 | And auditors are found guilty in court , censored by regulatory investigators , and have even had their practising licences suspended in certain US states . |
13 | Looking at five sets of data relating to different police areas , the author finds that the proportion of defendants given bail who are found guilty of offences committed while they were on bail is around 10 to 12 per cent. , rising to some 17 per cent . |
14 | A crime may be recorded as cleared by the police for a variety of reasons : where an individual has been charged or summonsed for the offence ( whether or not they are found guilty ! ) ; where an individual admits an offence and receives a formal caution from a senior police officer ; where an individual convicted of an offence asks , before sentence for other offences to be ‘ taken into consideration ’ ( TICs ) ; where forces officially take ‘ no further action ’ and the offence is written off . |
15 | It is then a matter for due process of law before a trial judge and jury as to whether people are found guilty and punished . |
16 | Burning car murder conspirators are found guilty . |
17 | Timbmet are Britain 's second importer of tropical timber — they argue that if any of the companies they buy from are found guilty of illegal logging , they 'll stop trading with them . |
18 | His team may be ordered to play behind closed doors if they are found guilty of failing to control their fans . |
19 | Vigilantes are found guilty after death of man |
20 | Still to come , 8 men are found guilty of one of Britain 's biggest ever drug trafficking operations , and rail unions warn they 're prepared to strike over this year 's pay claim . |
21 | Other name and course order lists are found useful in general library administration such as processing external readership applications for Polytechnic students . |
22 | At the top , in " 1 " we see the basic environmental situation , with a land-mass to the left on the margin of which are found fluviatile , near-shore and off-shore sediments . |
23 | Order 29 , r17 provides for adjustment at trial between a defendant who has made an interim payment and his co-defendants who are found liable to the plaintiff . |
24 | Tonight , three people are found dead at a house in Buckinghamshire . |
25 | Whatever their character , there is one curious feature shared by most private press books , which is that they are very rarely read — a fact testified to by the fact that an extraordinary number are found unopened , as though their charm and beauty may not be defiled even by the gentlest slitting of the sacred sections at the top and fore-edges . |
26 | As Fig. 4 shows , the relationship , of course , is negative : the earlier women marry in a country the more are found infecund at age 20–24 years ; a clear suggestion of long lasting infecundity as a consequence of early , premature marriages and conjugal unions . |
27 | There had been rumours lately that the new owner was going to stop even local people from using the estate , because poaching had been going on , and some of the deer had been found wounded . |
28 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
29 | Another 4,000 have been found temporary shelter with families . |
30 | The old simplicity of purpose and quiet efficiency continues as always , without any notice of the passing centuries ; it has not been found necessary to install the telephone . |