Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in 1979 , to the Elysée 's amazement and consternation , Roger Gicquel , anchorman on TFI ‘ s 8 p.m. news , alluded — albeit prudently — to what was becoming a French ‘ Watergate ’ — ‘ l'affaire des diamants ’ , in which President Giscard was suspected of accepting diamonds from the self-styled ‘ Emperor ’ Bokassa . |
| 2 | We 've been accused of screwing employers into the ground by our demands . |
| 3 | Benny swallowed the barley sugar rather than be accused of eating sweets in the public view , and let herself in the back . |
| 4 | Later in the 1970s Idi Amin , then dictator of Uganda , was accused of eating parts of the human beings who , indubitably , died in his torture camps . |
| 5 | Libya has been accused of international terrorism and was accused of supplying weapons to the IRA to help them with their terrorist campaigns here in the UK . |
| 6 | Fifteen people including church workers were arrested on Dec. 1 in connection with an attack on Oct. 30 on the military high command [ see p. 37038 ] , and a US church worker , Jennifer Casolo , was held for 18 days accused of stockpiling weapons for the FMLN , before being released on Dec. 13 under intensive pressure from the USA . |
| 7 | On July 13 five members of the fundamentalist Nahda ( " renaissance " ) group accused of attacking offices of the ruling Democratic Constitutional Rally in February [ see p. 38026 ] had a judicial appeal against their death sentences rejected . |
| 8 | I had not thought of catching things on the hop , as Ivy would say . |
| 9 | Every subterfuge is availed of to furnish excuses for the spending of money , not because the spending thereof is necessary , or even desirable , in the public interest , but because of the opportunities for graft incident thereto . |
| 10 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |