Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowlands has been critical of Welsh officials who went to the SA Rugby Board celebrations . |
| 2 | ‘ ( 1 ) The ex turpi causa defence ultimately rests on a principle of public policy that the courts will not assist a plaintiff who has been guilty of illegal ( or immoral ) conduct of which the courts should take notice . |
| 3 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 4 | has been guilty of fraudulent trading contrary to s. 458 of the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 5 | Of course if her doctor has been guilty of serious neglect , you and your parent may decide that you should lodge a complaint with the local Community Health Council , whose job is to represent to the Area Health Authority the interests of the public in the district in which it operates . |
| 6 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 7 | has been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company while an officer , etc. , of the company . |
| 8 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 9 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 10 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 11 | Throughout the postwar period , Yugoslavia has been short of foreign exchange , and never more so than in the 1980s . |
| 12 | " As you know , Sara , your aunt 's income has been dwindling of late years — she was very careless of investments and spent too much of her capital . |
| 13 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 14 | The drawing had been published in 1935 in connection with the painting , yet both consignor and Sotheby 's had been ignorant of this . |
| 15 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 16 | The proud possessor of a fragment of the Infant Jesus 's vest , a toy he had once played with ( Benjamin would have been proud of that ) , and a hair from St Peter 's beard which could cure the ague or a sore throat . |
| 17 | The old USSR would have been proud of such central control . |
| 18 | The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue . |
| 19 | Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on . |
| 20 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 21 | How could he have been capable of such cruelty ? |
| 22 | Hill must have been typical of many mid-Victorian medics who reorientated their social and political allegiances as a result of a shift in class and professional status . |
| 23 | The wealth of other trades was on a much smaller scale , one that can not have been untypical of most provincial communities . |
| 24 | He had normal hearing all his life and would have been unaware of deaf people if he had not been " adopted " as a young orphan by the Rev J Jennings , a deaf mute minister and founder of the South London Gospel Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 25 | Under the old law of larceny he may not have been guilty of attempted larceny . |
| 26 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 27 | Without the qualification , Johnson felt the remark would have been devoid of enjoyable meaning . |
| 28 | He must have been aware of that . |
| 29 | It appears that the scent of these oils can affect the etheric body , perhaps creating the right atmosphere for particular states of consciousness , and ancient peoples may have been aware of this . |
| 30 | While individual officers may indeed have been aware of this work , consideration of it did not form part of the policy-making . |