Example sentences of "are [adj] of " in BNC.

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31 When you believe that you are guilty of all the pain caused by your own pregnancy , birth and subsequent existence , then the burden really does bend your back , and it takes the labours of Hercules to try and straighten it .
32 Leakey said ‘ there is no question that companies are guilty of promoting and exporting these [ dangerous ] chemicals into developing countries .
33 Unfortunately , as history has shown , some of the companies are guilty of misconduct in the pursuit of such profit .
34 And , from my experience , I can only believe that in some measure , the courts are guilty of supporting the police in this attitude , for the sake of maintaining a status quo .
35 If you are not sure whether or not you are guilty of these or any other irritating mannerisms ask someone you know really well to tell you and consciously work to stop yourself when doing your mock interview ( see p. 61 ) .
36 Both are guilty of the crime of war …
37 Friedman feels a lot of today 's rock guitarists are guilty of playing with weak attitudes …
38 All these men are guilty of horrific crimes .
39 It is not only the sects that are guilty of fortress mentalities : we have come to believe that God is to be found only in our prayer groups , fellowships and denominational congregations .
40 To the extent that we do this I believe we are guilty of a modern form of syncretism which is of necessity unsatisfactory .
41 ‘ This Government , these men , are guilty of the betrayal of Britain . ’
42 Said FA spokesman David Bloomfield : ‘ If players are guilty of making gestures it is something we take seriously .
43 In such a time anyone who lacks the courage to be curious and questioning , the capacity to grow into new competencies , and the confidence to communicate and collaborate with others , is severely handicapped , and his or her educators are guilty of gross dereliction of duty .
44 Further , Hayek argues that constructivist rationalists are guilty of ‘ the synoptic delusion ’ ; that is , the belief that all relevant social facts are capable of being known to some one mind , and that it is possible to construct from this knowledge of the particulars a desirable social order .
45 The reason given in around forty-five per cent of divorces and , if you believe the statistics , nearly 60,000 men are guilty of it , but fewer than 9,000 women .
46 Bet and Alec Gilroy on Coronation Street are guilty of chain-smoking their way through most episodes but they 're not the only ones .
47 Guilt is culpable responsibility — we are guilty of some specific offence , or we may be seen by others or see them as so ; in this sense we carry the more or less factual responsibility for damage or potential damage to some other person(s) or society as a whole .
48 Those who lay claim to these rights and expect to have violations recognised and remedied , know that they undertake reciprocal obligations and will be expected to provide appropriate remedies if they are guilty of infraction , even if innocently .
49 Theorists operating in this way are guilty of the fortune-teller 's evasion and are subject to the falsificationist 's criticism .
50 Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings .
51 But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him
52 The correct answer to the question is that X and Y are guilty of conspiring to incite ( or , indeed , of conspiring to commit ) burglary or theft .
53 Many of us — and I most certainly include Waterstones — are guilty of creating an atmosphere which , while relaxing and relevant to book purchasing by adults , proves to be boring and even intimidating for children .
54 Dunning and colleagues conclude that authors like Clarke are guilty of romanticising working-class history , ‘ attributing to it a degree of family , inter-age-group and neighbourhood solidarity it has probably never possessed ’ ( ibid.:237 ) .
55 Are the miscreants aware that they are guilty of trespass and criminal damage ?
56 ‘ You realise that you are guilty of withholding information in a murder case ? ’
57 But at its heart , the message is a simple one ; the people of Israel have turned their backs on God ; they are guilty of the sin of apostasy .
58 ‘ Brother Athelstan , ’ he said testily , ‘ I would remind you that I am the king 's coroner and those two , ’ he gestured in the direction of the Springall house , ‘ Sir Richard and that expensive paramour of his , are guilty of murder ! ’
59 Oh , they are guilty of adultery . ’
60 No doubt , there 's several of you here who are guilty of this .
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