Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they really mean to improve transport in Scotland , why are they frightened of agreeing to the new clause ? |
| 2 | PEG ( to Abberley ) : Are you frightened of dying at the moment ? |
| 3 | In 1435–9 he is heard of lodging in the ‘ cornertowre ’ at a property in Penshurst , Kent . |
| 4 | Mr Husseini , the most senior supporter of the PLO in the occupied territories , has spent much of his time recently trying to prevent the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities . |
| 5 | Reports in the Washington Post of April 2 , citing the New York-based human rights group Middle East Watch , also confirmed cases of revenge attacks meted out against Palestinians [ see p. 38118 ] and others suspected of collaborating with the Iraqis . |
| 6 | Yassin had been sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1991 for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 7 | The concern of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) stemmed from several considerations : regret that two neighbouring Muslim states should be spilling one another 's blood ; anxiety lest the conflict provoke the intervention of one or both superpowers , with dangerous consequences ; fear lest member states be attacked by one of the belligerents if they were suspected of sympathizing with the other ; a feeling that a conflict of this sort diverted Arab and outside world attention and resources from the paramount issue of palestine ; a desire not to see either belligerent emerge from the conflict so strengthened by the spoils of victory as to become the most powerful entity in the Gulf ; and , finally , anxiety lest their internal security should be threatened as a by-product either of the war or of Iran 's revolution . |
| 8 | The report detailed widespread arrests , torture and mass extrajudicial killings of people suspected of participating in the uprising in northern and southern Iraq . |
| 9 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 10 | A compact disc player was suspected of interfering with the flight management of a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 which caused an uncommanded change of modes . |
| 11 | Later his doubts revived when the exiled King James was suspected of making over the Kingdom of Ireland to Louis XIV of France . |
| 12 | Mr Waite , formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy , had been trying to secure the release of Western hostages when he was himself captured because he was suspected of spying for the Americans . |
| 13 | The State Department announced on Feb. 7 that Felix Bloch , a US diplomat suspected of spying for the Soviet Union , had been informed that he was being suspended without pay with immediate effect . |
| 14 | An Israeli military court in Gaza on Oct. 16 sentenced Sheikh Ahmed Yassin , the founder of Hamas , to life imprisonment plus 15 years for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of co-operating with the Israeli authorities . |
| 15 | The Antarctic meteorite ( ALHA8 1005 ) , which is suspected of coming from the Moon , was discovered far to the west of the main meteorite concentrations in the Allan Hills region . |
| 16 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 17 | They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before . |
| 18 | The men , who are all from West Oxfordshire , are accused of assisting in the baiting of two cockrels . |
| 19 | The Chief of the Combined Staff , Lieutenant-Colonel Armando Palacios Gondola and the head of the Navy , Jose Sanchez , were also among those accused of participating in the rebellion . |
| 20 | By March some 54 officers and soldiers accused of participating in the coup were in military custody , including six officers believed to be key leaders , such as Brig. -Gen . |
| 21 | Of the estimated 170,000 Palestinians remaining in Kuwait after the Iraqi defeat , a number were killed by Kuwaiti soldiers and civilian vigilantes after being accused of collaborating with the occupying forces . |
| 22 | Four Palestinians accused of collaborating with the Israeli security forces were shot dead and their bodies dumped near the West Bank village of Kafr Rai on Jan. 26 . |
| 23 | Jatoi was accused of conspiring with the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) to install his son Masroor Jatoi as Sind 's Chief Minister . |
| 24 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 25 | Cresswell believed that the ‘ dole business ’ in the south was responsible ; Cooper claimed that on election day ‘ when children went to get free dinners they were told to tell their parents that if Cooper was returned no more free dinners would be given ’ ; Coath said that electors had been told that if they voted for him ‘ they would get no more doles ’ ; and Clare had been accused of voting against the guardians ' grant of coal to the unemployed ( SE 11 November 22 ) . |
| 26 | James Shelton aged 25 , and George Barnes , aged 23 , two Liverpool constables , with a taxi-cab driver named Charles Wareing , were accused of breaking into the Co-operative Stores in Wavertree Road and stealing a safe containing £146 . |
| 27 | He was accused of calling for the violent overthrow of the monarchy . |
| 28 | Arrested on 22 January , he had been accused of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 29 | Through its 50 per cent stake in the El Cerrejon open cast coal mine in northern Colombia , Exxon has been accused of acquiescing in the pollution of the Wayuu people 's lands , resulting in some communities being uprooted . |
| 30 | Council officers in Darlington were yesterday accused of discriminating against the disabled . |