reliable witness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreliableandwitness
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reliable
adjective
uk/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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witness
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɪt.nəs/us/ˈwɪt.nəs/
a person who sees an event happening, especially a crime or ...
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(Definition ofreliableandwitnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Any lawyer knows that the witness whose interest it is to tell the truth is the mostreliablewitness.
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That is hardly the behaviour of areliablewitness, nor is it the proper use of identity parades.
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But it would be necessary to prove the making of the statement, probably by oral testimony, of areliablewitness.
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Anybody connected with this trade, actively or otherwise, knows that he is likely to be areliablewitness.
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Then, there is a great incentive always to see that you are accompanied at least by areliablewitness.
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It is not going to be easy unless we are proceeding on the evidence of areliablewitnessand one accepted by the court.
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The case had not been brought to court because, although the woman was capable of writing that letter, she was not areliablewitness.
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Unless fly-tippers are caught in the act by the police, the authority or areliablewitness, it is impossible to prosecute.
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At present, unless fly tippers are caught in the act by the police, the authority or areliablewitness, it is impossible to prosecute.
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It amounted not merely to a denunciation of his competence in that case, but called into question his standing as areliablewitnessin any case.
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The court heard that the doorman had been involved in other criminal activities and was therefore not areliablewitness.
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I have the evidence of a veryreliablewitness, who assures me from his experience that, in some workshops, the output could be doubled if these restrictions were withdrawn.
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The tenth witness, a yachtsman who was offshore, reported it as being 1 mile, though he is regarded as a lessreliablewitnessas he changed his testimony.
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