Example sentences of "[be] [adj] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this meeting the dauphin may have implied that the duke , whose reluctance to adopt a strongly anti-English stance was generally recognised , had been guilty of treason to the French crown . |
| 2 | Although Sontag ( 1979 ) may have been guilty of exaggeration in her claim that Benjamin 's most important influence came from surrealism , it is certain that he was enthusiastic about surrealism both as a movement in the arts and as often explicit politics . |
| 3 | ‘ The disciplinary committee found that Geoff Blackburn had been guilty of misconduct during the match . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On that footing the taxi driver could have been guilty of larceny by a trick ( in old-fashioned terms ) , so as to be guilty of theft under any interpretation of section 1(1) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 9 | Unfortunately , as history has shown , some of the companies are guilty of misconduct in the pursuit of such profit . |
| 10 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |
| 11 | There is a substantial overlap here with the fiduciary controls and so this issue will be considered below , and in more detail in Chapter 9 where the extent to which the legal rules are tolerant of expenditure for ‘ socially responsible ’ purposes will be examined . |
| 12 | You are tolerant of ways in which the natural world impinges on your life that other people might find a nuisance . |
| 13 | To believe that people have been sensible of God in other ages is not however to accept what I may call the ‘ vehicle ’ of the Christian myth which has carried their religious sensibilities . |
| 14 | They are afraid of storms and will ask for shelter when it rains — invariably they are received hospitably , for folk are afraid of retribution from a gwyllion . |
| 15 | These people are afraid of anger to such an extent that they are dishonest . |
| 16 | Since that day of Dirac 's discovery the dual nature of light as wave and particle has been free of paradox for those in the know . |
| 17 | Julia had been free of pain for many months , but still she had grown weaker . |
| 18 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
| 19 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 20 | However , it is often necessary to use several solvents so that regions obscured by bands of one are free of interference in the spectrum of another . |
| 21 | You are free of feelings of guilt , worry , anxiety , embarrassment , envy or jealousy . |
| 22 | The Liberals are free of links with class interests . |
| 23 | Apart from a few minor displays , they are free of aggression toward their own kind . |
| 24 | in its first six months the agency has handled half a million cases , but there 've been hundreds of complaints about the way it operates . |
| 25 | There have been hundreds of convoys through Serb territory . |
| 26 | There are hundreds of instances of this kind of pose created by many different choreographers . |
| 27 | There are hundreds of things to be done for tomorrow . ’ |
| 28 | There are thousands on the housing waiting lists and there are hundreds of families in bed and breakfast . |
| 29 | There are hundreds of arcades in London , and people become addicted to these machines just as they become addicted to drugs . |
| 30 | There are hundreds of cases of men who took the most drastic and precarious actions to rid themselves of , what is after all , a minor irritant . |