Example sentences of "was fine " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thames Water Authority was fined £3,000 with £1,000 costs by Newbury magistrates after it admitted pumping ‘ virtually raw ’ sewage into a stream flowing through land owned by Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , at Bagnor Manor , Winterbourne , Berkshire . |
| 2 | The Greek captain of a ship responsible for Sunday 's oil spill in the Solent was fined £3,500 . |
| 3 | He got four years and later emigrated to Australia , whereas I was fined £30 and am welcome on Wogan , except that I am not . |
| 4 | C & G was fined £250 on each of those offences . |
| 5 | Joolz was fined £100 for contravening the Public Order Act . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 1986 Sogat 82 was fined and had its entire assets sequestrated because of its illegal disruption of the distribution of Rupert Murdoch 's News International newspapers . |
| 8 | Julia Pledger , owner/director of Fitzbillies , took her case to Cambridge Crown Court after she was fined £900 on each of 15 counts ( Caterer & Hotelkeeper , 30 May–5 June ) . |
| 9 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 10 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 11 | ALEX HIGGINS escaped suspension but was fined £3,000 yesterday for bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 12 | When he last appeared before Lightman he was fined £12,000 and suspended from five tournaments for head-butting Paul Hatherell , the WPBSA tournament director , during the 1986 UK championship . |
| 13 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |
| 14 | In January Habitat was fined £3,600 for similar offences in Croydon , south London . |
| 15 | Mr Jack Cunningham , shadow Leader of the House , was fined £150 after admitting driving at 103 mph . |
| 16 | Schmit was fined £700 plus £30 costs . |
| 17 | Mr Mark Gale , who was fined £50 after completing his poll tax registration form in Arabic , said yesterday he will appeal against the penalty . |
| 18 | A soldier who feared flying was fined £600 yesterday for endangering a civil aircraft and disobeying the captain 's orders . |
| 19 | ‘ When seven miners were killed in an accident at their McClure No.1 mine in 1983 , Pittston was fined $47,500 , ’ Gene tells us , ‘ and they fine us $30 million for demonstrating peacefully in defence of our communities . ’ |
| 20 | Thomas , his elder brother , was fined as a recusant in 1646 , and little by little the Brydges ' fortune dwindled . |
| 21 | Salomon Brothers , a big investment bank , was fined $1.3m by the New York Stock Exchange . |
| 22 | After pleading guilty to polluting a brook and killing 2200 fish , Dyfed farmer Geraint Bowen , Wolfsdale , was fined £375 on each offence and ordered to pay £819 compensation and £400 costs by Haverfordwest magistrates . |
| 23 | John Gibbons , a courtier , was fined £8,600 for exceeding the terms of his grant of land in the forest : between 1629 and 1634 he had , without warrant , cut down 4,000 oaks worth £1 apiece , spoiled certain coppices , and enclosed 94 acres . |
| 24 | 8d. for encroachments and unlawful destruction of the covert ; Sir John Winter , another forest landowner and ironmaster , was fined £20,000 for taking wood without warrant . |
| 25 | His heir was fined £20,000 , even though his father had obtained a pardon from James I. The Earl of Westmorland was fined £19,000 , and Sir Christopher Hatton £12,000 ; Sir Giles Mompesson was adjudged to pay a total of £3,300 for felling timber even though he produced an Exchequer warrant . |
| 26 | His heir was fined £20,000 , even though his father had obtained a pardon from James I. The Earl of Westmorland was fined £19,000 , and Sir Christopher Hatton £12,000 ; Sir Giles Mompesson was adjudged to pay a total of £3,300 for felling timber even though he produced an Exchequer warrant . |
| 27 | She admitted causing the dog unnecessary suffering and was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £508.72 costs . |
| 28 | Last month , O'Neill was fined £200 under the same FA disciplinary rule , following an incident with referee Royston Osborne , when Wycombe lost at Cheltenham in February . |
| 29 | But in 1984 he suffered further humiliation when he was fined £100 for an act of gross indecency with a lorry driver in a public lavatory in Reading . |
| 30 | Trainer Paul Kelleway was fined £500 by the stewards after their inquiry into Wilde Rufo failing to draw the correct weight . |