Example sentences of "guilty [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 2 | As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else , why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence ? |
| 3 | They feel guilty for the black predicament , as if the Jews caused it . ’ |
| 4 | I even carried out a double-bluff of appearing slightly guilty for the wrong reasons , so that adults told me I should n't blame myself because I had n't been able to warn Paul in time . |
| 5 | Children who have to leave a lone parent , whether single from death or divorce , are obviously going to be more troubled and guilty about the possible loneliness and vulnerability of the one they leave behind than children who know there are others to carry that burden . |
| 6 | Even then , you might still finish each day feeling guilty about the many chores which inevitably remain undone . |
| 7 | The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty through the preliminary hearings and trial in the King 's Bench Court , where Mr Justice Embury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging . |
| 8 | He was guilty of no more than his usual exaggeration when , at the age of twenty-four , he announced to a friend that he had read ‘ almost every thing ’ . |
| 9 | Lukic was guilty of no more than a challenge for a 50–50 ball with the speeding Rob Jones around the 18-yard line . |
| 10 | ‘ ( 1 ) Any person who at a lawful public meeting acts in a disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together shall be guilty of an offence … ( 2 ) Any person who incites others to commit an offence under this section shall be guilty of a like offence . |
| 11 | If that be not done , he is guilty of a technical offence : Brunfaut v. Neilson ( 1893 ) 20 R. ( t. ) 68 . |
| 12 | In 1661 , when C. N. Lesle published on the mobility of the earth , he was considered by fellow clergy to be guilty of a dangerous departure . |
| 13 | It may be , then , that there is a distinction between the two cases and that , notwithstanding the later doubts expressed in Hills v. Ellis , Willmott v. Atack should be taken to stand for the proposition that a person who interferes with the police intending to help them is not guilty of a wilful obstruction . |
| 14 | In another murder case , after a 19-year-old youth had been found guilty of a stabbing murder in Oakley Street , a woman who had given crucial evidence against him was ill-treated by neighbours and eventually turned out of her Oakley Street home amidst ‘ a terrible scene ’ . |
| 15 | A few years earlier the judge observed of a 17-year-old girl who was raped by a motorist with whom she hitched a lift after being stranded following a party , that ‘ the victim was guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence ’ 1 . |
| 16 | Charlie Francis is guilty of a sporting crime — of that I am sure — but what about the guilt of those in high officialdom who have allowed the situation to go on growing for 20 years without trying to stop it ? |
| 17 | Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " . |
| 18 | The other side of the coin is that , when your employer is guilty of a serious breach of your contract , you must not delay your response too long . |
| 19 | The District Attorney ( this is an American story ) believes the prisoners to be guilty of a serious crime , but has no proof that would stand up in court . |
| 20 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 21 | But the question is , can he both maintain that monads do not reduce to bundles of qualities and continue to adhere to his principle of indiscernibles without being guilty of a serious inconsistency ? |
| 22 | Bruce , who has been inspirational in United 's pursuit of their first championship in 25 years , was guilty of a reckless and needless challenge he will regret . |
| 23 | If a user continues to operate the computer after being struck off the list he will be guilty of a criminal offence and liable to an unlimited fine . |
| 24 | The SACHR felt it should be used as an incentive to good practice rather than as a weapon after an employer had been found guilty of a criminal offence ( discrimination ) . |
| 25 | H's purpose , however , was to punish the tenant for having given evidence ( under subpoena ) in an action brought against him by another of his tenants and it followed that the landlord was guilty of a criminal contempt of court . |
| 26 | If you are weekly tenant your landlord must provide you with a rent book otherwise he/she may be guilty of a criminal offence . |
| 27 | He warned Evans that they were both guilty of a criminal offence , and advised him to leave London ; Christie would dispose of Beryl 's body and have the baby Geraldine adopted . |
| 28 | If a ganger was working on the track and was found to be over the limit , a director or manager could be found guilty of a criminal offence . |
| 29 | The justices accepted that publication of those documents would harm the national interest , and might even make the newspaper guilty of a criminal offence . |
| 30 | To the extent that we do this I believe we are guilty of a modern form of syncretism which is of necessity unsatisfactory . |