Example sentences of "[noun sg] put to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In proceedings under Parts IV and V of the Children Act this privilege is waived and no person is excused from giving evidence or answering a question put to him in the course of his evidence on the ground that it will incriminate him or his spouse ( s98(1) ) . |
| 2 | By section 434(5) an answer given by a person to a question put to him by the inspectors may be used in evidence against him . |
| 3 | In order to consider the proposal put to them by the management , the prospective providers of equity finance , and/or the providers of debt , and indeed the management in a management buy-in , will wish to see as much information as possible about the target . |
| 4 | The point to make here is that the logic of adversary adjudication is that the decision of the court should be based on the case put to it by the parties in dispute and not on material or information supplied by third parties ; and rules of evidence are designed to achieve this result . |
| 5 | The committee declined to accept the view put to them by the Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury that tribunals ought to be regarded as part of the machinery of public administration for which the Government should retain a close and continuing responsibility . |
| 6 | No , he said , he was just disagreeing with a view put to him by the interviewer — just as Lady Thatcher herself would have disagreed with it . |