Example sentences of "[verb] be convicted of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure would be even higher , she adds , if the guidelines included children who live in a home where an adult has been convicted of a sexual offence with children . |
| 2 | For example , knowing someone has been convicted of theft might influence one 's reactions and attitudes to that person . |
| 3 | Ambitious Essex Young Conservatives chairman Christopher Rutter has been convicted of stealing . |
| 4 | The words must be uttered by someone with the necessary authority , in a country in which there is a death penalty , to a person who has been convicted of a particular crime ; they must be spoken , not written , at the right time ( at the end of a trial ) and in the right place ( in court ) . |
| 5 | He has been convicted of crime , and we shall assume for the moment that he has not behaved himself within the meaning of these words . |
| 6 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 7 | He has been convicted of car crimes 16 times and had one charge pending at the time of our discussions three months ago . |
| 8 | Surely , if someone has been convicted of possessing weapons or explosives , it is vital for the information to be passed on as quickly as possible , so that the officer concerned can take it into account . |
| 9 | Is the Minister confident that when information is no longer relevant , because somebody has been convicted of the offence , the information relating to other people is removed as soon as possible ? |
| 10 | A rehabilitated person is one who has been convicted of and sentenced for an offence or offences and who has not committed a further offence or offences during the appropriate rehabilitation period and that period has expired . |
| 11 | ( i ) has been convicted of a criminal offence involving fraud , dishonesty or violence ; or |
| 12 | British Nuclear Fuels ( BNFL ) has been convicted of violating safety rules at its Sellafield reprocessing plant . |
| 13 | This task will be easier if the plaintiff has been convicted of an offence under the Motor Vehicles ( Wearing of Seat Belts ) Regulations 1982 or the 1991 Regulations making the wearing of seat belts in rear seats by adults compulsory because that conviction will throw the onus on to the plaintiff who will have to show it was erroneous or irrelevant to discharge it . |
| 14 | Noel Rogers has been convicted of drink driving 4 times . |
| 15 | A man has been convicted of causing suffering to thirty eight pets in his tiny terraced house . |
| 16 | It 's the second time van driver Martin Clarke has been convicted of drink-driving . |
| 17 | The nurse , Beverley Allitt has been convicted of a third child murder and faces seventeen other charges . |
| 18 | A florist has been convicted of smuggling three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain . |
| 19 | And registration may be denied anyone who has been convicted of any certain types of offense . |
| 20 | Did you know he 'd been convicted of drunken driving ? |
| 21 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 22 | Had his plan worked he would have been convicted of obtaining the insurance money by deception through enabling his wife to obtain it . |
| 23 | The court considered that the accused should have been convicted of obtaining property by deception . |
| 24 | Suppose someone 's name is entered on the computer as having been convicted of prostitution in London and they report an assault in York or perhaps somewhere totally different . |
| 25 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 26 | A Honduran drug trafficker , Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros , 45 , was on Jan. 16 , 1990 , in Los Angeles sentenced to life imprisonment , with no possibility of parole , having been convicted of cocaine smuggling on Sept. 6 , 1989 . |
| 27 | John Vento became the third white to be sentenced in connection with the Bensonhurst attack , having been convicted of unlawful imprisonment and menacing behaviour , on July 3 , and was on Aug. 14 imprisoned for between 2@2/3 and 8 years . |
| 28 | Six people ( five Iraqis and a Jordanian ) were on May 19 sentenced by a martial law tribunal to prison terms of up to 15 years , having been convicted of collaboration with the Iraqi occupation forces in the first of a series of war trials [ see p. 38166 ] . |
| 29 | Luis Miguel Almeida and René Salmerón Mendoza were executed by firing squad on Feb. 19 , having been convicted of killing four policemen at the Tarara naval base on Jan. 8 during an unsuccessful attempt to steal a vessel and escape from Cuba to Miami [ see p. 38715 ] . |
| 30 | Willie Leroy Jones was executed on the evening of Sept. 15 having been convicted of the murder of an elderly couple in 1983 ; Jones was the third Virginia prisoner to be executed in 1992 and the 16th in the state since the re-instatement of the death penalty in 1976 . |