Example sentences of "be accused of a " in BNC.

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1 Also , employers who close their premises because there is no electricity can not be accused of a lockout and are no longer responsible for wages .
2 DEFENCE chiefs will today be accused of a cover-up over reported sightings of a UFO near a Suffolk airbase .
3 It was , however , a totally new experience for her to be accused of a crime that she definitely had not committed .
4 Those who question or reject managerial prerogative can be accused of a selfish rejection of Japanese values in favour of alien Western individualism : ‘ an obligation of mutual attachment between firm and employee [ is ] Sanctioned by what is seen as tradition , morally correct and emblematic of Japanese culture ’ ( Clark 1979 p.175 ) .
5 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 ’ .
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