Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great things are expected of Meeting the Dawn by Hishida Shunso ( est £130,000 ) . |
| 2 | A practice developed of allowing the individual to make representations and call witnesses before a panel of three people who would advise the Secretary of State . |
| 3 | To save time when judgment is given , the practice has been adopted of stating the disposition of the case in open court , but of providing printed copies of the full judgments to the parties ' lawyers and to the representatives of the press in court . |
| 4 | In many cases , one or more of those parents are suspected of abusing the children , and in the case of organised abuse , also facilitating abuse by others . |
| 5 | For example , the widespread use of DDT in the 1960s was suspected of affecting the calcium metabolism in the oviducts of birds of prey ( raptors ) . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the English soldiery hunted down every Irishman suspected of helping the French and put them to death in a variety of ingenious fashions . |
| 7 | If he claimed to remember nothing , Murray might be suspected of stealing the letter — unless he also claimed that it was a forgery ; there had , indeed , been several of those . |
| 8 | Recently , tension had been building along the South Hampshire coast , culminating in the arrest of a man suspected of stealing the eggs of the protected migrant seabird — the little tern . |
| 9 | In a speech on July 5 President Banda had announced an intention to charge and try all detainees suspected of breaking the law , saying that a special tribunal headed by a High Court judge would be set up to hear appeals from any detainees who had not been charged with any offence . |
| 10 | On May 30 , 1990 , the West German Cabinet approved legislation banning the production or use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs — one of the chemicals suspected of destroying the ozone layer and also a greenhouse gas ) from Jan. 1 , 1995 . |
| 11 | The original Montreal Protocol , passed in 1986 , called for halving the production of eight substances suspected of harming the ozone layer by the year 2000 . |
| 12 | According to later reports Gerard Harte was suspected of triggering the Ballygawley bomb . |
| 13 | ‘ The cops suspected of killing the two old guys have been suspended but not arrested , even though I 'm told there 's a suspicion that murder is involved . |
| 14 | DETECTIVES are investigating claims that a security guard suspected of fleeing the country with £1 million of stolen cash instead used an Essex caravan site as a hide-out . |
| 15 | Norwegian police confirmed the arrest of two Norwegian businessmen suspected of selling the computers to a UK-based company which subsequently arranged for their shipment to Pakistan . |
| 16 | On Feb. 5 the former Under-Secretary of State in the Interior Ministry , Wladyslaw Ciaston , and department director Zenon Platek , were accused of ordering the murder of Fr Jerzy Popieluszko in October 1984 [ see pp. 33292-93 ] . |
| 17 | THE MAN accused of stealing the memo which exposed Paddy Ashdown 's love affair was cleared yesterday — only for the jury to hear that he is a professional cat burglar . |
| 18 | Messrs Jordan and Stone are accused of breaching the Institute 's ethical guidelines in acting as administrators for Polly Peck in spite of an alleged ‘ continuing professional relationship ’ between Coopers & Lybrand and the company . |
| 19 | FA CHIEF executive Graham Kelly was last night accused of bringing the game into disrepute over his court-room comments in defence of Gary Blissett . |
| 20 | The commons also brought charges of corruption and extortion against Neville and a number of other courtiers and merchants , while Alice Perrers was accused of misappropriating the king 's goods and of bribery ; but it is quite clear that Latimer and Lyons were the principal objects of the commons ' hostility . |
| 21 | It is the first time the fraud squad has been directly accused of leaking the report . |
| 22 | Then , Labour was accused of holding the tax timebomb , with secret plans to raise taxes and put up national insurance contributions . |
| 23 | In 1226 Roger Gernet , hereditary warden of the royal forest of Lancaster , and one of his foresters were accused of causing the death of Hugh of Wyresdale . |
| 24 | A twenty-three year old woman has been accused of causing the death of another woman by driving dangerously at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour with her one-year-old daughter on her lap . |
| 25 | A man has appeared in court accused of causing the death of a pensioner by dangerous driving . |
| 26 | Earlier , he was accused of insulting the Africans by holding his nose because he could not stand the smell . |
| 27 | Earlier , he was accused of insulting the Africans by holding his nose because he could not stand the smell . |
| 28 | Diana was accused of banishing the Prince 's friends . |
| 29 | The bicycle was accused of enlarging the scope for theft , and we were encouraged to linger over some of the more squalid details of profiteering and corruption which had accompanied the boom in the cycling industry . |
| 30 | I would n't want to be accused of frightening the patients away . ’ |