Example sentences of "guilty [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore , a person could be guilty of the most serious non-fatal assault but not of the lesser assault !
2 I once defended a juvenile on a charge of reckless driving , and he was banned from driving for two years after being found guilty of the most horrific driving at night without lights .
3 Leaving aside the issue of his sincerity at the time , his statement has lived on to become a condemnation of his fellow Republican Ronald Reagan , who is guilty of the most alarming lapse of self-restraint in the history of American environmental management .
4 ‘ Those working with the Germans were no less guilty of the most horrible brutality than the Titoists . ’
5 Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness !
6 On the facts of Martin , above , the accused would be guilty of the more serious offence , s.18 , but not guilty of the less serious offence , s.20 .
7 On the facts of Martin , above , the accused would be guilty of the more serious offence , s.18 , but not guilty of the less serious offence , s.20 .
8 In Reg. v. Emmanuel ( 1981 ) 74 Cr.App.R. 135 where the defendant was charged in the indictment with alternative counts , the judge approved a proposal by the prosecutor to offer no evidence on the more serious charge and to accept a plea of guilty to the less serious .
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