Example sentences of "had be accused of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 2 | Piers Fitzwilliams , 29 , of Pilley , Lymington , Hampshire , had been accused of four offences of dealing in shares in Centreway Industries while he was a director of corporate finance group City and Westminster Financial . |
| 3 | He was determined to be accessible during the campaign : in the past he had been accused of being too aloof . |
| 4 | GERMANY 'S double world sprint champion , Katrin Krabbe , and her colleagues , Grit Breuer and Silke Moller , who had been accused of tampering with a urine sample , had a four-year suspension lifted here yesterday , clearing the way for the three athletes to participate in this summer 's Olympic Games in Barcelona . |
| 5 | The three athletes , who had been accused of tampering with a urine test in South Africa in January , were restored to competition after the three-man commission , who held a 14-hour hearing stretching over two days in Darmstadt , declared there had been ‘ holes in the chain of evidence ’ during and after testing by South African anti-doping control officials . |
| 6 | While this latter disqualification had not prevented the marriage of the Duke d'Orléans , son of Louis-Philippe , with Helen of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , it had in practice proved to be inconvenient , as the duchess did not change her faith and had been accused of pushing ‘ the Protestant interest ’ . |
| 7 | Not only had she failed to recapture her budgie , but she had been accused of stealing apples and brought disgrace upon the Pack ! |
| 8 | The agencies funding the scheme — the UN 's Association International Service ( London ) and ASEC , an inter-church organisation pursuing social work — had been accused of political activity , Ede explained , but that was unavoidable : the problems were political . |
| 9 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 10 | Certainly those who had been accused of witchcraft or committed suicide could not be buried in the churchyard : second best was usually the crossroads , a memory perhaps of some measure of sanctity which may over time have become attached to leys because of their association with other sacred sites . |
| 11 | With reference to the PAIN report , however , Mrs Trickett commented on the guidelines which the department had been accused of breaking . |
| 12 | ‘ It is an absolute red herring and they are just trying to make a mountain out of a molehill ’ — NEIL GRAY ( All Black manager in Australia ) after his team had been accused of excessively tough tactics in beating New South Wales ( 41–9 ) . |
| 13 | Blissett , 28 , had been accused of ‘ cynically and deliberately ’ thrusting his elbow into Uzzell 's face in a mid-air duel , leaving him with a fractured cheek bone and eye socket . |
| 14 | Yesterday 's award follows the collapse of another BR case in which MP Harry Greenaway had been accused of corruption involving a rail engineering firm . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | In their new patriotism and hero-worship they were ready to undergo discipline and do hard work , two duties which in the past they had been accused of lacking . |
| 17 | They had been accused of deceiving the Department of Trade and Industry by claiming machine tools destined for Iraq had peaceful purposes when they were specifically designed to make fuses for shells . |
| 18 | Bowe , who had been accused of having an optic measure of heart , had to mine deep into previously untapped resources to resist a man who had every physical disadvantage . |
| 19 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 20 | Arrested on 22 January , he had been accused of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 21 | British army counter-insurgency specialists helped train the Presidential Guard in the Philippines , which had been accused of torture and summary execution of opposition activists . |
| 22 | The trainer-jockey partnership had been accused of breaking the rules after winning a race at Lingfield last winter . |
| 23 | The man had been accused of raping a local girl and was in very serious trouble . |
| 24 | The wound was salved a little when Olivier sent word that he too had been accused of ‘ lacking inches ’ in the same role and by the same critic ! |
| 25 | Salengro , having angered France 's far right by issuing a decree outlawing ‘ seditious ’ groups , had been accused of desertion and collaboration with the enemy during the first world war . |
| 26 | Chapter 5 , on the New Testament ( DV 17–20 ) , likewise partly consists of rather conventional summaries ; but it does deal , firmly yet flexibly , with questions of the historicity of the Gospels , and agrees that the development of the Gospel tradition was influenced by oral transmission and preaching ( for allowing which , responsible scholars had been accused of heresy ) . |
| 27 | One of WACC 's partners in Venezuela , Centro Guarura , reports that the radio station had been accused of giving airtime to ‘ destabilising and subversive elements ’ . |
| 28 | These were intensified by the fact that he had been accused of believing that the world would continue to exist for eternity . |
| 29 | A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car . |
| 30 | He told me that , many years before , she had been jealous of her husband and another woman , and had been accused of murdering this woman . |