Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cresswell believed that the ‘ dole business ’ in the south was responsible ; Cooper claimed that on election day ‘ when children went to get free dinners they were told to tell their parents that if Cooper was returned no more free dinners would be given ’ ; Coath said that electors had been told that if they voted for him ‘ they would get no more doles ’ ; and Clare had been accused of voting against the guardians ' grant of coal to the unemployed ( SE 11 November 22 ) . |
| 2 | They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before . |
| 3 | Arrested on 22 January , he had been accused of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 4 | Through its 50 per cent stake in the El Cerrejon open cast coal mine in northern Colombia , Exxon has been accused of acquiescing in the pollution of the Wayuu people 's lands , resulting in some communities being uprooted . |
| 5 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 6 | The men , who are all from West Oxfordshire , are accused of assisting in the baiting of two cockrels . |
| 7 | Some people are accused of playing with the problem . |
| 8 | One can easily see in this historical account the effort to explain the disaster as God 's punishment for the sins committed under Bayezid I. He and his Ali Pasha are accused of encroaching upon the and introducing innovations in the government . |
| 9 | It was important to pass the examination — and not only that , but to be near the top of the list in order to be assured of getting through the door of the right secondary school . |
| 10 | As a result of these additional responsibilities , an increasing number of companies will wish to have properly drafted contracts and may wish to inspect disposal sites where their waste goes if they want to be perceived as ‘ environmentally friendly ’ and be assured of complying with the duty of care . |
| 11 | The concern of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) stemmed from several considerations : regret that two neighbouring Muslim states should be spilling one another 's blood ; anxiety lest the conflict provoke the intervention of one or both superpowers , with dangerous consequences ; fear lest member states be attacked by one of the belligerents if they were suspected of sympathizing with the other ; a feeling that a conflict of this sort diverted Arab and outside world attention and resources from the paramount issue of palestine ; a desire not to see either belligerent emerge from the conflict so strengthened by the spoils of victory as to become the most powerful entity in the Gulf ; and , finally , anxiety lest their internal security should be threatened as a by-product either of the war or of Iran 's revolution . |
| 12 | Of the estimated 170,000 Palestinians remaining in Kuwait after the Iraqi defeat , a number were killed by Kuwaiti soldiers and civilian vigilantes after being accused of collaborating with the occupying forces . |
| 13 | BUS firms are being accused of discriminating against the Skerne Park estate in Darlington . |
| 14 | They are being held hostage with three other peacekeeping officials after being accused of spying for the Phnom Penh Government . |
| 15 | James Shelton aged 25 , and George Barnes , aged 23 , two Liverpool constables , with a taxi-cab driver named Charles Wareing , were accused of breaking into the Co-operative Stores in Wavertree Road and stealing a safe containing £146 . |
| 16 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 17 | And in tutorials there is opportunity to take well judged risks — by which I mean being unafraid of going for the character and seeing where it leads — even with well known speeches . |
| 18 | Meanwhile on Jan. 9 the Supreme Court ordered a retrial of 10 members of the opposition Liberia Unification Party who in October 1988 had been convicted of plotting against the Doe regime [ see p. 36610 ] . |
| 19 | In 1435–9 he is heard of lodging in the ‘ cornertowre ’ at a property in Penshurst , Kent . |
| 20 | The Antarctic meteorite ( ALHA8 1005 ) , which is suspected of coming from the Moon , was discovered far to the west of the main meteorite concentrations in the Allan Hills region . |
| 21 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 22 | Aikenhead J. , a judge of the High Court , is convicted of driving under the influence of drink . |
| 23 | A compact disc player was suspected of interfering with the flight management of a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 which caused an uncommanded change of modes . |
| 24 | Mr Waite , formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy , had been trying to secure the release of Western hostages when he was himself captured because he was suspected of spying for the Americans . |
| 25 | Later his doubts revived when the exiled King James was suspected of making over the Kingdom of Ireland to Louis XIV of France . |
| 26 | Jatoi was accused of conspiring with the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) to install his son Masroor Jatoi as Sind 's Chief Minister . |
| 27 | He was accused of calling for the violent overthrow of the monarchy . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend protested when he was accused of barracking by the hon. Member for Ryedale ( Mr. Greenway ) . |
| 29 | Specifically Sir Joh was accused of lying to the Commission when he denied any knowledge of the business plans of a Singaporean entrepreneur Robert Sng , from whom he had received a " contribution to party funds " of A$100,000 . |
| 30 | In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties . |