Example sentences of "[vb mod] be accused of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if anyone should be accused of following anybody it 's you ! |
| 2 | Wesker might be accused of being somewhat subjective about the play , a charge that may be repeated as the producer of his own work . |
| 3 | On the contrary , he might be accused of overscrupulousness . |
| 4 | Boxtree 's children 's list might be accused of flash in the pan publishing — some flash , some pan . |
| 5 | He is agnostic and argues that the churches have failed society with their inflexibility and their refusal to embrace homosexuality and , in the case of the Roman Catholic church , contraception ; though Glennis feels they might be accused of accelerating moral decline if they approved such things . |
| 6 | It is of no surprise to you and I to know that we are in a erm an economic crisis , and , but I think that we might be accused of being in an area that does n't take the fair share of the cuts . |
| 7 | And I still do n't see why you 're so certain you 'll be accused of this dreadful thing , ’ she protested . |
| 8 | ‘ I know I 'll be accused of just being another whingeing manager . |
| 9 | But I 'd better not keep on like this or I 'll be accused of queering Mr Karlinsky 's pitch . |
| 10 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 11 | If we do n't locate and interview every inmate detained there at that time , we 'll be accused of some sort of cover-up . ’ |
| 12 | He knew that he could be accused of acting like some less satisfactory prime ministers in this constitutional field , that is , choosing an archbishop of his own lay power without the approval of the Church ; and he disliked that situation . |
| 13 | Liability Insurance is important if in the future there were an event in which you or your nanny could be accused of negligence resulting in injury to a child in her care or in your house . |
| 14 | I would be treading a tightrope — or at the least could be accused of insensitivity — were I to speak more of this particular sister-in-law . |
| 15 | The Croaking Gourami could be accused of being rather a colourless drab specimen . |
| 16 | I suppose I could be accused of damning with faint praise . |
| 17 | If anything , he says , the IASC could be accused of focusing too much on countries in Continental Europe and Japan , rather than on the Third World , in an effort to put the framework of basic accounting standards in place . |
| 18 | Our evidence was said to be flawed because : WE could be accused of setting up Marshall for an offence she would not have otherwise committed . |
| 19 | Any agency which places you in an unviable or potentially dangerous position could be accused of negligence by delegation , and so it is equally not in their interests to place you inappropriately . |
| 20 | In respecting past values , Morgan could be accused of regression . |
| 21 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |
| 22 | 1 What do you think Bower-bird could be accused of ? ( the charge ) 2 Who would be the judge ? 3 What would be the main points against the Bower-bird ? |
| 23 | We could be accused of confusing the issue of environmental assessments . |
| 24 | Sometimes at the Dispatch Box the Minister displays not just a cocky attitude — on occasions I could be accused of that myself — but almost an arrogant attitude . |
| 25 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 26 | He recognized that he could be accused of a conservative , ‘ indeed reactionary ’ , direction for the universities , and of condemning the public sector to second-class status , but ‘ unrepentant I shall believe that in the long run this represents the logical development of both the Robbins principle and the binary policy ’ . |
| 27 | And , although aware that the design of the Panopticon could be accused of violating its occupants ' liberty , Bentham remained unmoved : foreseeing this criticism , he replied : " Objection — liberty infringed . |
| 28 | Maybe she could be accused of cowardice , but she was n't ready , was n't prepared . |
| 29 | ‘ But I could be accused of negligence ! |
| 30 | If the foreign and defence policy-makers may be accused of insufficient attention to the economic aspects of their policies , it is far from clear that the economic arguments were pressed in a manner most likely to bring about a re-assessment of overseas commitments . |