Example sentences of "have [vb pp] bankrupt " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by : ( a ) the executors , representatives or disponees of any person who held a licence in respect of premises situated within the area of the board and who has died before the expiry of the licence ; or ( b ) the trustee , judicial factor or curator bonis of any person holding such a licence who has become bankrupt , insolvent or incapable before the expiry of the licence ; transfer the licence to the applicant if the applicant is in possession of the premises . |
| 2 | CHRISTOPHER GILES , flamboyant former Brighton Tory councillor , dynamic entrepreneur and friend of David Mellor , has gone bankrupt this month , owing £289,000 . |
| 3 | He had worked for various firms doing all sorts of jobs , for he was nothing if not adaptable , and recently , just as he was approaching retirement , the firm he worked for in Deptford had become bankrupt . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 5 | The family was still of some standing but the merchant firm of Höchstetter had become bankrupt in 1530 with the failure of a heavily financed speculation in mercury and the end of a dream of world monopoly in that substance . |
| 6 | I 've gone bankrupt once through it and I can see the same thing happening again … . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , by 1846 they had gone bankrupt . |
| 8 | STRIKER David Hirst is back in business after believing his season had gone bankrupt . |
| 9 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 10 | The king ensured that vital funds continued to flow , and was in any case disposed to make concessions on the question of cartels because many of the monopolistic companies had gone bankrupt and were useless to him . |
| 11 | He bought a small printing firm that had gone bankrupt , and because of contacts in the Labour Party and all kinds of left-wing political groups , soon had a bread-and-butter basis of pamphlets , brochures , tracts , leaflets , and then a couple of small newspapers . |
| 12 | He had bought too many farms and had gone bankrupt in the agricultural depression at the beginning of this century . |
| 13 | Fumio Abe resigned as secretary-general of the Miyazawa LDP faction on Dec. 12 , amid allegations that he had received 100,000,000 yen ( about US$780,000 ) in undeclared political donations from the Kyowa Corporation , a steel frame manufacturer which had gone bankrupt in November 1990 , and several of whose executives were later charged with fraud . |
| 14 | He was charged with having received 80,000,000 yen ( about US$630,000 ) in bribes from Kyowa , a steel frame manufacturer which had gone bankrupt in November 1990 , in return for providing confidential information to the firm concerning development projects on Hokkaido . |
| 15 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 16 | My father had gone bankrupt , and my mother was nearly penniless , but as a relative of Robert Barclay , I got a good bursary . |
| 17 | Good shape despite the tens of thousands of firms which have gone bankrupt this year ? |
| 18 | When the US firm of Laventhol & Horwath folded in the face of a mass of litigation , the court required its partners to find $40m of their own money to help pay the creditors , and some of the partners have gone bankrupt . |
| 19 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the past 12 months , because of his policies , 768,000 people have lost their jobs , 100,000 people have lost their homes and 45,000 companies have gone bankrupt ? |
| 20 | The survey found that half of the UK 's knacker businesses have gone bankrupt since they began charging last July . |
| 21 | Mm , that 's right and they 've got all the hassle of the airport , mind you they ought to be able to get a local airport I do n't know who they 're going , going with , who the erm Gavin said , I think Gavin said or somebody said something the , the original company have gone bankrupt |