Example sentences of "[verb] be accuse of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SADF has been accused of involvement in ivory smuggling in the past , notably during the Angolan and Namibian wars , when the local elephant population was devastated . |
| 2 | A 17-year-old youth has been accused of assault . |
| 3 | The Welsh Office has been accused of complacency over food poisoning outbreaks in a damning new report by an all-Party Commons committee . |
| 4 | ‘ Nor would you , mate , ’ Parks said defensively , ‘ if you 'd been accused of murder . |
| 5 | The director of the prison was dismissed on July 24 and on the same day the Acting Commander of the Air Force , Gen. Hernando Monsalve , requested an immediate transfer , having been accused of incompetence over operations at the prison . |
| 6 | Miyazawa 's eventual success in the leadership poll was attributed to the support of the largest faction in the LDP , led jointly by Shin Kanemaru and by former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita , who remained a powerful force in LDP politics despite having been accused of involvement in the Recruit Cosmos financial scandal of 1987-89 . |
| 7 | All three men had been accused of manslaughter and arson after Rebbecca and Emma Harper died in the barn fire at Uckington near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire last year . |
| 8 | Chapter 5 , on the New Testament ( DV 17–20 ) , likewise partly consists of rather conventional summaries ; but it does deal , firmly yet flexibly , with questions of the historicity of the Gospels , and agrees that the development of the Gospel tradition was influenced by oral transmission and preaching ( for allowing which , responsible scholars had been accused of heresy ) . |
| 9 | All four had been accused of involvement in the murders of two Australian lawyers on holiday in the Dutch town of Roermond in May 1990 [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 10 | Not only Michio Watanabe but also Koichi Kato and Hideo Watanabe had been accused of involvement in the Recruit scandal . |
| 11 | They had been accused of involvement in a number of attacks on targets connected with European and US interests in Amman in 1990-91 . |
| 12 | Factors in the resignation of Cardoso de Mello 's team — which had been responsible for the anti-inflation programmes of March 1990 and February 1991 — were variously said to include the unpopularity in business and banking sectors of their interventionist policies , the combative style adopted in negotiations with international debtors , recent clashes with members of the President 's inner circle , including regional development secretary Egberto Baptista who had been accused of malpractice , and Cardoso de Mello 's affair in 1990 with the then Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral [ see p. 37773 ] . |
| 13 | Certainly those who had been accused of witchcraft or committed suicide could not be buried in the churchyard : second best was usually the crossroads , a memory perhaps of some measure of sanctity which may over time have become attached to leys because of their association with other sacred sites . |
| 14 | Salengro , having angered France 's far right by issuing a decree outlawing ‘ seditious ’ groups , had been accused of desertion and collaboration with the enemy during the first world war . |
| 15 | Fazle Haq , who had been accused of complicity in the murder in 1988 of a Shia leader while he was caretaker Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) [ see p. 37151 ] . |
| 16 | British army counter-insurgency specialists helped train the Presidential Guard in the Philippines , which had been accused of torture and summary execution of opposition activists . |
| 17 | Yesterday 's award follows the collapse of another BR case in which MP Harry Greenaway had been accused of corruption involving a rail engineering firm . |
| 18 | Other controversial congressional decisions had included the granting of an amnesty to Bucaram 's brother , former presidential candidate Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz [ see p. 36343 ] , who had been accused of corruption when mayor of Guayaquil ; and the dismissal of 16 Supreme Court judges on Oct. 5 . |
| 19 | All four outgoing ministers had been accused of corruption and influence-peddling . |
| 20 | He had been accused of spying and held without trial since December 1985 [ see pp. 35544 ; 37423 ; 37727 ] . |
| 21 | As a sergeant with A company , the 2nd Battalion , The Durham Light Infantry , his task was to help guard Japanese prisoners , some of whom had been accused of war crimes . |
| 22 | The West Indies selectors have been accused of bias against players from Barbados following the announcement of their Test team . |
| 23 | As for ‘ le piston ’ , it is true that three senators have been accused of fraud , bribery and tax evasion in the past three years , but they have all been cleared of these charges by other senators . |
| 24 | Nationalised industries have been accused of inefficiency for a variety of reasons . |
| 25 | Sega and Nintendo have been accused of monopoly practices , and charging ‘ excessive and extortionate ’ prices . |
| 26 | Dooley , peacemaker in the after-match flare-up said : ‘ I have been accused of forearm-smashing this kid on the park . |
| 27 | People think , well now , here 's a man who 's been accused of fraud and so forth and shortly after that it comes out that he 's given a big thing to the government . |
| 28 | Another TV cop who 's been accused of wife-beating is Larry Wilcox of Chips . |