Example sentences of "have [be] accuse of " in BNC.
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1 | The Ahlbergs have been accused of not facing up to the harsh realities of life , of being too cosy and sweet , but their latest picture book , Bye Bye Baby , published today , breaks the mould . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Along with a dining room full of others , I have been accused of stealing an extra jam sponge in Yorkshire ( ‘ There 's bin someone 'ere 'as 'ad more'n one pudding , and I sha n't rest till I find out 'oo … ’ ) . |
4 | TWO High Street banks have been accused of trying to conceal up to 2,500 redundancies by announcing them on election day . |
5 | The West Indies selectors have been accused of bias against players from Barbados following the announcement of their Test team . |
6 | Members of the School of Agronomy who have been accused of being too sympathetic with the problems and plight of the campesinos ( peasant farmers ) have been particularly targeted . |
7 | Although Scottish goalkeepers have been accused of all sorts of malpractices , troilism is rarely mentioned . |
8 | Some reformers have been accused of either exaggerating or misunderstanding contemporary developments . |
9 | Schools have been accused of neglecting economic and industrial understanding and its relationship with social standards ; partnerships have the opportunity to improve the quality of this aspect of the curriculum . |
10 | It also reports that ‘ Labour supporters have been accused of a hate campaign against the Tory candidate challenging Neil Kinnock in Islwyn , Gwent . |
11 | Sega and Nintendo have been accused of monopoly practices , and charging ‘ excessive and extortionate ’ prices . |
12 | Nationalised industries have been accused of inefficiency for a variety of reasons . |
13 | Dooley , peacemaker in the after-match flare-up said : ‘ I have been accused of forearm-smashing this kid on the park . |
14 | A BRITISH couple have been accused of smuggling cannabis worth £266,000 . |
15 | STAFF demonstrating a ‘ magic ’ well have been accused of giving children nightmares — by turning teddy bears to stone . |
16 | Just as schools have been accused of creating pupils with learning difficulties , it is possible to argue that schools create disruptive pupils . |
17 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
18 | Prince Charles has denounced architects for defacing British cities ; Margaret Thatcher 's governments have challenged the monopolies enjoyed by opticians and the legal profession ; planners have been condemned for producing urban chaos ; teachers have been attacked for crushing originality and stifling creativity in their pupils ; and lawyers have been accused of mystifying the legal system to the point where the layman finds it largely unintelligible . |
19 | It also assumes that there has been no hidden export of Leicestershire 's residents to cheap ( and possibly nasty ) nursing homes elsewhere in Britain , a practice that some other health districts have been accused of . |
20 | They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before . |
21 | I have been accused of many things , but never of being a papal legate . |
22 | The couple 's sons , Roderick and Mark have been accused of their murders . |
23 | The maquilas have been accused of causing job losses in the United States due to companies moving to Mexico . |
24 | Scottish biologists and a UK government research centre have been accused of giving a green seal of approval to a major logging operation in the South American state of Guyana that could destroy large areas of virgin rainforest . |
25 | Welcome back:The people who look after the Malvern Hills have been accused of being secretive and undemocratic . |
26 | But the council have been accused of acting too late . |
27 | Vandals who put a gas cylinder on a railway line have been accused of putting the lives of two hundred people at risk . |
28 | The police have been accused of passing on confidential information about a fourteen-year-old delinquent who 's spending two weeks in Spain at taxpayers ' expense . |
29 | The police have been accused of passing on confidential information about a fourteen-year-old delinquent who 's spending two weeks in Spain at taxpayers ' expense . |
30 | Five firms involved in maintenance work on the Severn Bridge have been accused of ignoring dangerous faults on a gantry which collapsed , killing two workmen . |