Example sentences of "[verb] be declared [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morocco 's fledging Green Party has been declared illegal , ostensibly because it has not been officially authorized . |
| 2 | The piglet they bred at school has been declared supreme champion at one of the country 's top farming shows . |
| 3 | Moreover , experience demonstrates that once over 50 per cent acceptances have been received and the offer has been declared unconditional as to acceptances , the minority ( particularly institutional shareholders ) often sell . |
| 4 | But the vote has been declared invalid because fewer than half the parents took part in the ballot . |
| 5 | THE Queen 's cousin — art-dealer John Bowes-Lyon — has been declared bankrupt in London 's High Court , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 6 | In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) . |
| 7 | A BUSINESSMAN who defied Sunday trading laws ten years ago , and gathered over £4,000 in fines and legal fees in the process , has been declared bankrupt . |
| 8 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 9 | DEVELOPMENT continues apace in Syria as the Wadi Aabeid field — in which LASMO has an interest — has been declared commercial . |
| 10 | He 's not the first gentleman to turn to crime to pay off his debts , but I suspect that had we brought him before a court he would have been declared insane . ’ |
| 11 | ( Even our typewriters are mechanical horrors that should have been declared obsolete decades ago . ) |
| 12 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 13 | Tamas had led in a first round of polling on Dec. 9 , but the result had been declared void because the turnout did not reach the necessary 50 per cent [ see p. 37130 ] . |
| 14 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 15 | In Kosovo , which like Vojvodina was officially administered as an autonomous province within Serbia , and where elections to a 130-member " constituent Republican Assembly " on May 24 [ see p. 38919 ] had been declared illegal by the Serbian authorities , the assembly was prevented from proceeding because on June 23 Serbian authorities surrounded the building and arrested several deputies . |
| 16 | The strike had been declared illegal by the Russian Prosecutor General . |
| 17 | In Florida on Oct. 20 two members of the rap music band " 2 Live Crew " were acquitted on obscenity charges for having performed songs from their album As Nasty as They Wan na Be , although a retailer had been convicted of selling the record after it had been declared obscene by a federal district judge on June 6 . |
| 18 | We even managed to acquire a small grant towards the costs , as the house had been declared uninhabitable and was zero-rated ( in the pre-Poll Tax era ) . |
| 19 | Of these 95 had been declared admissible and , if no negotiated settlement could be reached by the Commission , would go on to the European Court of Human Rights , which had issued 25 judgments in 1989 . |
| 20 | Again , it was clear that the ministers and their parliamentary colleagues , many of whom in any case disliked the scheme , would not pass into legislation any bill which had been declared contrary to church teaching by the bishops . |
| 21 | By the end of 1989 El Salvador had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending , having accumulated arrears of $6,500,000 on loans of $110,000,000 from this body . |
| 22 | By the end of 1989 Nicaragua had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of US$150 million accumulated on loans of $160 million from that body . |
| 23 | By the end of 1989 Honduras had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of having accumulated arrears of US$80,000,000 on loans of $400 million from this body . |
| 24 | An emergency bridging loan to the value of US$247,500,000 , granted by the Japan , Mexico , Spain , Taiwan , Venezuela and the USA , in June , restored multilateral lines of credit cut off since November 1989 , when the previous government had been declared ineligible for further assistance by the IMF [ see p. 37039 ] . |
| 25 | It is noteworthy that by 1976 , eight years after the original Pastoral Measure came into effect , almost 500 churches had been declared redundant by the Church Commissioners . |
| 26 | He had held the post only since a December 1990 congress when the party had been declared independent of the CPSU [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 27 | The court ruled that a 101-year-old treaty with the USA could be used instead of a 1979 treaty which had been declared unconstitutional in June 1987 [ see p. 35756 ] . |
| 28 | A hospital spokesman said the wards had been declared election-free zones . |
| 29 | Gironella 's solution was entirely individual : to focus on the art of the European past , looming large as it did in Latin American consciousness regardless of how often it had been declared dead and buried by Europeans . |
| 30 | Some , they said had been declared unroadworthy by the Department of Transport who 'd then banned then from the roads and others were needed as evidence of alleged offences . |