Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] guilty " in BNC.

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1 Taylor has been guilty before of overlooking the impact Gazza can have on a game .
2 Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice .
3 The Jockey Club 's Disciplinary Committee upheld the York stewards ' judgement that Eddery had been guilty of interfering with Green 's Bid and Splendent in the Gimcrack Stakes .
4 It concluded that Dr Silvester had been guilty of a ‘ serious error of professional judgment ’ and ordered him to take a six-month retraining course .
5 ‘ The disciplinary committee found that Geoff Blackburn had been guilty of misconduct during the match .
6 He claimed all countries have been guilty of tampering with the ball and conceded : ‘ We do n't know what we are going to do , and the countries do n't know the answer .
7 They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before .
8 Kirkman Finlay who was represented by an advocate at the district meeting complained that his opponent had been guilty of bribery and corruption and had thereby disqualified himself .
9 Under the Common Law , proof that the plaintiff had been guilty of contributory negligence , and that he had the ‘ last opportunity ’ of avoiding the accident , entirely deprived him of his remedy .
10 One ingenious convict , Alfie Hinds , sued a police officer for stating in the " News of the World " that Hinds had been guilty as charged .
11 As we saw , permissive trends in today 's culture are in part derived from a one-sided and shallow apprehension of Freudian ideas ; but in my view the situation has not been improved by one major distortion of Freud 's thinking of which many analysts and nearly all writers in the social sciences who have used psychoanalytic ideas have been guilty .
12 If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse .
13 Public protest followed a judge who fined a rapist 2,000 after asserting that the woman had been guilty of contributory negligence by hitch-hiking .
14 Most mammalian embryologists have been guilty in the past of using age as a measure of developmental stage ; this has proved to be an inadequate and often misleading criterion .
15 ‘ Secondly , I 'm afraid the owner of the Delos has been guilty of telling you fibs , Admiral .
16 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . "
17 The Monis government had been guilty of foolish panic , the Marne growers of mob violence .
18 Publication of the report by the Observer in March this year caused a furore and prompted a special committee of Law Lords to decide whether Lonrho had been guilty of contempt of court before its appeal to the House of Lords on the Fraser bid .
19 The government for its part claimed that the Tigers had been guilty of over 30 breaches ; reports also indicated that they had used the opportunity to build new fortifications near government military bases in the north Jaffna area and near the Elephant Pass ( linking the Jaffna Peninsula with the rest of the country ) .
20 If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued .
21 In recent years , leading nationalist politicians have claimed members of the armed forces have been guilty of ‘ collusion ’ — allowing UVF and UFF gunmen to enter and leave areas without fear of arrest .
22 Of course if her doctor has been guilty of serious neglect , you and your parent may decide that you should lodge a complaint with the local Community Health Council , whose job is to represent to the Area Health Authority the interests of the public in the district in which it operates .
23 On the other hand it was a very swift descent from the heights of a collectorship to the rank of a common gauger for a man who had friends among the voting freeholders , and some of those friends at once moved to his aid , their resolve strengthened by Carrick 's complaint that while five supervisors were dismissed , the other four were quickly reinstated in their rank and only he remained reduced , while , according to Carrick , at least one of the lucky men had been guilty of far more serious omissions than himself .
24 On July 7 protesters had claimed in Trinidad , the capital of Beni , that the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) and the local anti-drug Umopar police had been guilty of abuses against the local population .
25 The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected .
26 It has been suggested above that , in view of the clear statement in the and the unsatisfactory nature of Mustakimzade 's argument , Turkish tradition has been guilty at least of inconsistency , if not of error , in doing so .
27 Section 40 , like section 23 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ( paragraph 16–26 above ) , deals with the situation where A commits an offence because of the fault of B. It enables B to be convicted where A has been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Consumer Protection Act or would have been one but for one of the statutory defences .
28 when a partner has been guilty of misconduct likely to be harmful to the firm 's business ;
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