Example sentences of "the defendants ' [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants ' actions were not detrimental to road safety and were exceptional cases as set out under article 11 of AETR , |
| 2 | The defendants ' case was not entirely met , however , by the interpretation of ‘ rent reserved ’ as meaning the rent agreed and not the rent actually payable . |
| 3 | The defendants ' conduct was not unconscionable , nor an interference with any legal or equitable right of the plaintiffs . |
| 4 | The House of Lords held that in the present case the defendants ' disclaimer was sufficient to exclude the assumption by the defendants of a duty of care towards the plaintiff . |
| 5 | On the facts the court had no clear evidence that the copy sent to the defendants ' solicitors was made by or on behalf of the second defendant . |
| 6 | The plaintiffs ' accountants were Deloitte , Haskins & Sells and the defendants ' accountants were Peat , Marwick , Mitchell . |
| 7 | The defendants ' operations were not destructive of telegraphic communication generally , but only affected instruments unnecessarily so constructed as to be affected by minute currents of the escaping electricity . |
| 8 | The risk involved in the defendants ' operations was so great that a high degree of care was expected of them . |