Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] committed a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | examined the legal position of a man who has committed an act of bankruptcy and said , at p. 452 : |
| 6 | 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 . |