Example sentences of "has commit [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before this defence has any role to play it must be shown that the defendant has committed a tort . |
| 2 | No longer will you need to work backward : you can take some crime situation , such as the possibility that your main character has committed a murder , and from there work forwards . |
| 3 | A may not terminate the contract on the ground that B has committed a breach by not opening a confirmed credit — but he may insist that B opens a confirmed credit within a reasonable time and , if B does not do so , he will then be in breach of contract . |
| 4 | Tony Bottoms ( 1983 : 176–7 ) has compared this notion to that of the ‘ sin-bin ’ in ice hockey : the player who has committed a foul is excluded ( or ‘ disqualified ’ ) from the game for a while and symbolically marked out as an offender , but after a term of fixed duration the player is allowed to rejoin the game as a full participant or ‘ requalified subject ’ . |
| 5 | A publican or tobacconist who , in good faith , sells his goods to a 15-year-old who looks 20 has committed a crime , unless he successfully employs the permitted defence that he sold the goods innocently . |
| 6 | The overriding problem is that unlike most criminal acts where one knows clearly that one has committed a crime , one can often only know one has published obscene or indecent material at the very end of a prosecution . |
| 7 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 8 | Many people say that the solution is to take the young person who has committed a crime out of their community and lock them away , that will achieve a solution . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's right to hand him back to the government of the country to which he belongs in the expectation that he will be properly treated and if he has committed a war crime he would be tried accordingly , ’ Lord Aldington replied . |
| 10 | But it is by no means certain what the law is when the goods are on the premises of one who was not responsible for bringing them there and who has committed no tort with respect to them . |
| 11 | In supporting the Bill at its Second Reading in the House of Commons , the Minister of State at the Home Office , Mr Alexander Lyon , explained the Bill 's overall purpose thus : ‘ If a man has committed an indiscretion that brings him before the courts and results in his being convicted and penalised , it must be right that after he has served the penalty and lived it down by a substantial period of good conduct thereafter , it should be without meaning for most people of good will . ’ |
| 12 | examined the legal position of a man who has committed an act of bankruptcy and said , at p. 452 : |
| 13 | Section 35 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 empowers the courts to require any person who has committed an offence to compensate anyone who has suffered adversely as a result of his crime . |
| 14 | ‘ 7(1) In the course of an investigation into whether a person has committed an offence under section 4 or 5 of this Act a constable may , subject to the following provisions of this section and section 9 of this Act , require him — ( a ) to provide two specimens of breath for analysis by means of a device of a type approved by the Secretary of State , or ( b ) to provide a specimen of blood or urine for a laboratory test . |
| 15 | If a child has committed an offence and the parents are not providing adequate care , protection and guidance , or the offence indicates the child is beyond parental control , then they can be brought before the court as in need of care , protection and control . |
| 16 | In other words , if a shopkeeper can not show that he took every reasonable step to satisfy himself about the age of the person buying cigarettes or any other tobacco product , he has committed an offence . |
| 17 | Le Palace presents a reconstruction of the events of a day , a night and the next morning during the Spanish Civil War , apparently in the mind of a student — into this narrative is imbricated the ‘ Récit de l'homme-fusil ’ by an Italian who has committed an assassination . |
| 18 | There is no point in correcting a dog even thirty seconds after he has committed the misdemeanour . |
| 19 | Essentially , everything is much the same as in the classical template except that in all probability it will be pretty well apparent to the reader quite soon who it is who has committed the murder . |
| 20 | If you listen very carefully to the background music , you might hear a clue to who has committed the crime , that 's if you know Morse code . |