Example sentences of "accuse of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before . |
| 3 | The men , who are all from West Oxfordshire , are accused of assisting in the baiting of two cockrels . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Jatoi was accused of conspiring with the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) to install his son Masroor Jatoi as Sind 's Chief Minister . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was accused of calling for the violent overthrow of the monarchy . |
| 13 | Arrested on 22 January , he had been accused of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Council officers in Darlington were yesterday accused of discriminating against the disabled . |
| 16 | BUS firms are being accused of discriminating against the Skerne Park estate in Darlington . |
| 17 | In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties . |
| 18 | Specifically Sir Joh was accused of lying to the Commission when he denied any knowledge of the business plans of a Singaporean entrepreneur Robert Sng , from whom he had received a " contribution to party funds " of A$100,000 . |
| 19 | Although he eventually managed to finish his ( televised ) speech , the image remained of a President no longer in full control of events , being angrily accused of lying to the American people . |
| 20 | Shaun Gooch was also accused of lying about the role of the second driver on trial , Anthony Gallagher , to wriggle out of his responsibility for the crash . |
| 21 | One can easily see in this historical account the effort to explain the disaster as God 's punishment for the sins committed under Bayezid I. He and his Ali Pasha are accused of encroaching upon the and introducing innovations in the government . |
| 22 | Some people are accused of playing with the problem . |
| 23 | They are being held hostage with three other peacekeeping officials after being accused of spying for the Phnom Penh Government . |
| 24 | Relations between Egypt and Israel , already strained by differences over the Middle East peace process , deteriorated further after the arrest of four Israeli citizens accused of spying for the Jewish state in the first such case since the signing of the Camp David peace accords between the two countries in 1978 [ see pp. 29654-60 ] . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend protested when he was accused of barracking by the hon. Member for Ryedale ( Mr. Greenway ) . |
| 26 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 27 | The arrest in October 1990 of Klaus Kuron , a senior West German intelligence officer accused of working for the East German State Security Service ( Stasi ) [ see p. 37828 ] , resulted in the arrests of many others accused of spying [ see p. 37828 ] . |
| 28 | Wilmot also faces a separate trial at Southport on November 19 accused of driving under the influence of drugs . |