Example sentences of "accuse it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spate of recent disturbances , aggravated by high prices , housing shortages and the cut in food subsidies imposed during the Gulf war , led the government 's opponents to accuse it of ignoring the poor . |
| 2 | Whatever you say about home-made porn , you ca n't really accuse it of propagating images that further oppressive sexual stereotypes . |
| 3 | Some might accuse it of looking like a wedding cake , but I would suggest it has just the right amount of decoration . |
| 4 | Ransome Kuti had accused it of instigating the violence in order to thwart the handover to civilian rule scheduled for January 1993 . |
| 5 | The Taiwanese government passed legislation in harmony with the regulations of CITES ( the UN 's Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ) in 1989 , although environmentalists have since accused it of failing to enforce these laws sufficiently . |
| 6 | The action stems from a letter Apple sent Quorum lawyers on March 17 accusing it of infringing its intellectual property rights . |
| 7 | These suspicions were echoed by the country 's Catholic bishops , who , in a pastoral letter delivered on March 22 , made an unprecedented attack on the government , accusing it of fomenting ethnic tensions . |
| 8 | The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria ( CITUB ) and the Podkrepa ( " Support " ) Labour Confederation walked out of talks with the government on April 14 , accusing it of presenting them with a fait accompli over price liberalization . |
| 9 | In a tract written in defence of the petitioners , Lord Somers , the Junto chief , bitterly inveighed against the House of Commons , accusing it of encroaching upon the executive powers of the Crown by seeking to impose punishments without the King 's authority . |
| 10 | On Nov. 9 , FIS leaders threatened " to reject dialogue " with the government , accusing it of hindering the work of councils where the FIS had won a majority of seats in the June municipal elections [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 11 | A new book criticising Hollywood 's current output and accusing it of undermining traditional values has provoked fierce debate in the US . |
| 12 | He has been a longstanding critic of the council , accusing it of failing to support him following his sacking by Stockport HA . |
| 13 | In recent weeks Walesa had launched bitter attacks on the government , accusing it of delaying economic and political reform ( and especially of retaining former communists in the Cabinet ) and of making workers bear the brunt of the current economic austerity plan . |
| 14 | Delhi has blamed the unrest on Islamabad , accusing it of arming , training and inspiring the subversives , a charge Pakistan denies . |
| 15 | Mr Tsvangirai 's detention came a day after his Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions denounced the government 's closure of the University of Zimbabwe and accused it of unleashing ‘ brutal state force ’ against opponents . |
| 16 | In his address on July 15 , Mandela blamed the government for the continuing violence in South Africa 's townships , and accused it of pursuing a " cold-blooded strategy of state terrorism " . |
| 17 | Appeal Court judge Sir Stephen Brown blamed Nottinghamshire last week for an ‘ unhappy catalogue of errors ’ in a child protection case , and accused it of misusing the Children Act . |
| 18 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 19 | In early February , the chief of the general staff , General Mikhail Moiseev , sharply attacked the party 's military policies and accused it of failing to stem the tide of anti-military sentiment now sweeping the outlying republics ( 5,000 Lithuanians , for example , recently refused their call-up papers on the ground that the Geneva convention allows people to refuse to serve in the army of an occupying power ) . |
| 20 | Romana believed the Junta of the Asturias to be ‘ republican ’ in sympathy , and accused it of starving him of supplies . |
| 21 | Some deputies accused it of giving away too many powers to the regions . |