Example sentences of "guilty [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They feel guilty for the black predicament , as if the Jews caused it . ’ |
| 2 | I even carried out a double-bluff of appearing slightly guilty for the wrong reasons , so that adults told me I should n't blame myself because I had n't been able to warn Paul in time . |
| 3 | Children who have to leave a lone parent , whether single from death or divorce , are obviously going to be more troubled and guilty about the possible loneliness and vulnerability of the one they leave behind than children who know there are others to carry that burden . |
| 4 | Even then , you might still finish each day feeling guilty about the many chores which inevitably remain undone . |
| 5 | The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty through the preliminary hearings and trial in the King 's Bench Court , where Mr Justice Embury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging . |
| 6 | Perhaps we should consider publishing details of the many failures in Conservative councils throughout the country , and not least in the borough in which this House is situated which , while exporting its homeless to other authorities , appears to be guilty of the illegal sale of houses that were not its to sell in the first place . |
| 7 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 8 | He was found not guilty of the serious charge of seditious libel but guilty of the lesser misdemeanour of creating a public mischief . |
| 9 | Torrel James , 28 , a policeman in Port-of-Spain and a former Trinidad & Tobago Youth representative opening bowler , has been jailed for 15 years and received 20 lashes with the birch after being found guilty of the attempted murder of his girlfriend and her father in 1989 . |
| 10 | Three were also found guilty of the 1989 murder of William " the Wild Guy " Grasso , the leader of the Connecticut branch of the Patriarca family . |
| 11 | When they turn to the handling charge they must presume that he is not guilty of robbery ; and , if they are quite satisfied that he must have been guilty of the one offence or the other , they are bound to conclude that he was guilty of handling . |
| 12 | The author of the book Trio ] and Error ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.95 ) which puts the case for those found guilty of the Guildford-related offences is Mr Robert Kee , who might be described as an old-fashioned television-documentary liberal . |
| 13 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 14 | Ali Shoukeir has been found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of |
| 15 | She had more than once been guilty of the unkind opinion that the gaunt , ageing nun had a somewhat masculine cast of countenance . |
| 16 | Someone here is also a traitor , guilty of the blackest treason . |
| 17 | He was found not guilty of the serious charge of seditious libel but guilty of the lesser misdemeanour of creating a public mischief . |
| 18 | a single prostitute who provides services in private premises to one client at a time without spectators is guilty of the common law offence of keeping a disorderly house if it is proved that the services provided are of such a character and are conducted in such a manner … that their provision amounts to an outrage of public decency or is otherwise calculated to harm the public interest to such an extent as to call for condemnation and punishment . |
| 19 | A general reading of the book encourages the suspicion that the principle of verification is being used , not simply to exclude some clear and obvious errors , but to cut out swathes of philosophical tradition that have never been guilty of the crude misconceptions of which they are accused by Ayer . |
| 20 | Although disapproval of sacred dramas continued to be vehemently expressed , as , for instance , by Gerhoh of Reichersburg ( 1039–1169 ) who , according to Kolve ( 1966 ) , warned that he who portrays the rage of Herod is guilty of the very vice he portrays ( a deep-seated objection not entirely eradicated today ) , anxiety about its blasphemous nature was dispelled as more people came to regard it as merely a ‘ game ’ rather than as a sacrilegious act . |
| 21 | After all , TI 's prospective members are companies and governments that may well be guilty of the very misdeeds the group is pledged to fight — including the bribe-assisted export contracts financed by some rich-country governments . |
| 22 | Am I not guilty of the same essentialist fallacy if I tear down Ormrod J. 's thesis simply to erect my own property-based ‘ essence ’ which conveniently allows me , then , to advance my argument concerning homosexual unions ? |
| 23 | In other words , the recollection that the Friend had once been guilty of the same fault is a consolation to the Poet , for he now knows how the other must have ‘ bowed ’ under his own , ‘ transgression ’ : They are equal , then — but more , they are united : ‘ Oh , that our night of woe might have remember'd/My deepest sense how hard true sorrow hits . ’ |
| 24 | You accuse these agencies of improper motives — such as using children as bait for donors — when you are guilty of the same shortcoming on your cover . |
| 25 | A second defendent , Anthony Gallagher found NOT guilty of the same charge and was fined three hundred pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 26 | Such a solution " detracts , or may be thought to detract , from the obligation of the jury to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of the particular offence , before they enter such a verdict " . |
| 27 | If they do not , they will be guilty of the worst sort of hypocrisy . |
| 28 | A passenger who is screaming to get out of a car , who is trying to stop a driver driving dangerously , will still be guilty of the aggravated offence . |
| 29 | Anthony Scrivener referred to the Bill as unique in jurisprudence because a defendant can be guilty of the aggravated offence even though he does no other act than commit the basic offence , and the event which makes the crime aggravated is outside his or her control . |
| 30 | ‘ Horatio Pugwash , you and your ruffianly companions having been found guilty of the abominable crime of smuggling , I sentence you to be taken from here to the Baddie 's Tower , and at dawn to Gallows Marsh , and there hanged by the neck . |