Example sentences of "accused [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can understand why we were accused of being vague and naïve , ’ says Miss Kier . |
| 2 | After the Sheffield football disaster , within a week we heard accusations against the police , against the clubs , against the fans themselves who were accused of being drunk and causing trouble . |
| 3 | Despite such reports there was some evidence that the crisis had generated greater support for the King , particularly among Saudi nationals ; on the other hand some foreign Arab residents in Saudi Arabia , particularly Palestinians and Jordanians , were accused of being pro-Iraqi . |
| 4 | In other spheres Margaret Thatcher , Mary Archer ( who chairs the hardship committee at Lloyd 's ) and Helen Sharman , who were all trained as chemists , could hardly be accused of being unsuccessful . |
| 5 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |
| 6 | All too frequently , Conservative Members are wrongly accused of being anti-local authorities . |
| 7 | Although a recovering alcoholic and noted for temper tantrums , she could never be accused of being bland . |
| 8 | He was accused of being dictatorial and of attempting to overthrow the Constitution . |
| 9 | The press began to be accused of being one-sided , unfair , of not giving a balanced picture . |
| 10 | Bunn , 46 , of London , is accused of being involved in dishonestly pledging shares as security for a loan from a 35-bank syndicate to the Maxwell Communication Corporation . |
| 11 | Rubbing out Kylie meant , of course , that he could escort other women , without being accused of being unfaithful . |
| 12 | Accused of being insolent , the private may say : ‘ No I was n't , sergeant , I was just saying I 'd been cleaning my boots . ’ |
| 13 | Like Mr Major , Mr Bush is frequently accused of being colourless and too pragmatic . |
| 14 | He was , he informed us in his speech to the senate , fully aware that he may be accused of being naive . |
| 15 | Yes I often used to be accused of being Welsh but it is different . |
| 16 | At national conferences such as Acton and Edinburgh , the lesbians in general , and the separatists in particular , were accused of being elitist , divisive , of tearing the women 's movement apart , and taking energy away from ‘ the real struggle ’ . |
| 17 | erm Although one would hate to be , I do n't want to be accused of being elitist and saying that E H O's must do a particular job , but what I would like to say it that we need people who are trained to a sufficient level to be able to do the ultra high risk catering area , as distinct from other high-risk areas . |
| 18 | Indeed in The Times article already quoted Roger Scruton was particularly scornful of the Vice-Chancellors for their apparent readiness to change : they were accused of being interested only in the quantity , not the quality , of students ; and of being happy to lower their standards , and offer as items in university courses ‘ subjects ’ which have no proved intellectual value . |
| 19 | Welcome back:The people who look after the Malvern Hills have been accused of being secretive and undemocratic . |
| 20 | Prime Minister John Major has been accused of being insensitive after turning down an invitation to visit Hartlepool from the town 's Labour candidate , Peter Mandelson . |
| 21 | That result spotlighted discontent with Mr Meciar , often accused of being authoritarian , inside the HZDS and prompted a fierce public row between the prime minister and his foreign minister , Ivan Knazko , a party stalwart of long standing . |
| 22 | The museum , it turned out , had invited to the opening ceremonies the Croatian president , Franjo Tudjman , who has been accused of being anti-Semitic ( he denies it ) and has talked about ‘ Judeo-Nazis ’ in criticising Israelis ' treatment of the Palestinians . |
| 23 | And the buttonhole might never have become his trademark had he not been accused of being ostentatious . |
| 24 | Those who taught the ‘ liberal studies ’ components were often accused of being unsympathetic to ‘ the activities of the scientist and technologist ’ . |