Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [vb pp] guilty " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former financial consultant who lost almost two million pounds of his clients ' money has been found guilty of seven charges of theft and fraud . |
| 2 | A former financial consultant has been found guilty of two charges of fraud . |
| 3 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council has been found guilty of maladministration leading to injustice by the ombudsman and must pay £1,250 compensation for failing to assess and design adaptations to the home of a disabled man . |
| 4 | A man serving life for murdering a policeman has been found guilty of beating up a prison officer at a high security jail . |
| 5 | A local authority has been found guilty of maladministration for not telling residents before giving planning permission for floodlights at a rugby stadium . |
| 6 | A driving examiner has been found guilty of indecently assaulting four women while they were taking their tests . |
| 7 | Franco Boretti , a proud pet-owner from Sicily , was taken to court and given two fines amounting to the equivalent of 67p each after his dog had been found guilty of committing ‘ an obscene act in a public place ’ . |
| 8 | A man 's been found guilty of kicking his ex-girlfriend 's dog to death at her home . |
| 9 | In another murder case , after a 19-year-old youth had been found guilty of a stabbing murder in Oakley Street , a woman who had given crucial evidence against him was ill-treated by neighbours and eventually turned out of her Oakley Street home amidst ‘ a terrible scene ’ . |
| 10 | The SACHR felt it should be used as an incentive to good practice rather than as a weapon after an employer had been found guilty of a criminal offence ( discrimination ) . |
| 11 | A nurse has been found guilty of assaulting a blind woman of eighty eight . |
| 12 | In each case the appellant has been found guilty of contempt of court and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment . |