Example sentences of "[be] [adj] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If those figures are right of four hundred and ten now you do n't need to be a real big mathematician , even at this time of night , but you , if you have the two hundred and thirty four out of commission and you 've got to have those cos that 's got ta be a rolling programme each four years . |
| 2 | The wealth of other trades was on a much smaller scale , one that can not have been untypical of most provincial communities . |
| 3 | It is appropriate to talk of ‘ marginalization ’ and ‘ peripheralization ’ because these terms are descriptive of social process , but the underclass model reduces capitalism to a description and confines action to moral outrage and good will . |
| 4 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 5 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 6 | None is intended — none of us is perfect , and I too have of course been guilty of many an error in my time . |
| 7 | He 's been guilty of sharp practice in the past , though this is undoubtedly the worst example I 've come across personally . ’ |
| 8 | They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before . |
| 9 | A moment before he had been guilty of one damnable , wicked , fleeting moment of joy when he thought Garvey lay dead on the floor . |
| 10 | has been guilty of fraudulent trading contrary to s. 458 of the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 11 | Of course if her doctor has been guilty of serious neglect , you and your parent may decide that you should lodge a complaint with the local Community Health Council , whose job is to represent to the Area Health Authority the interests of the public in the district in which it operates . |
| 12 | Under the Common Law , proof that the plaintiff had been guilty of contributory negligence , and that he had the ‘ last opportunity ’ of avoiding the accident , entirely deprived him of his remedy . |
| 13 | Public protest followed a judge who fined a rapist 2,000 after asserting that the woman had been guilty of contributory negligence by hitch-hiking . |
| 14 | He was therefore held to have been guilty of contributory negligence and the widow 's damages reduced . |
| 15 | Under the old law of larceny he may not have been guilty of attempted larceny . |
| 16 | ‘ ( 1 ) The ex turpi causa defence ultimately rests on a principle of public policy that the courts will not assist a plaintiff who has been guilty of illegal ( or immoral ) conduct of which the courts should take notice . |
| 17 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 18 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 19 | In that process , it may well be that some of those concerned in the management of the company , and others as well , have been guilty of some misconduct or impropriety which is of relevance to the liquidation . |
| 20 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 21 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 22 | has been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company while an officer , etc. , of the company . |
| 23 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 24 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 25 | The Monis government had been guilty of foolish panic , the Marne growers of mob violence . |
| 26 | And there is no point denying that I suffer from Denial , because this means only that I am guilty of Deep Denial . |
| 27 | Moreover , their parents are supportive of modern language , not only in theory , but also in practice , and they wish their children to have access to the modern language curriculum . |
| 28 | Staff work together and are supportive of each other and have been involved in the decision-making process through the various ‘ teams ’ that make up the management of the school . |
| 29 | Under the scheme , forest management and surveillance will be maintained and local people will be permitted to continue to exploit the forest in ways that are supportive of existing ecosystems . |
| 30 | It is also necessary to understand that many people with disabilities are apprehensive of well-managed services providing continuity . |