adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alleged corruption (= that someone is accused of, but that is not proved )
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He is about to be investigated for alleged corruption.
an alleged conspiracy (= that people say exists but that is not yet proved to exist )
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The charges against him relate to an alleged conspiracy.
an alleged crime (= not proved to have happened )
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No evidence of the alleged crime was presented.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
abuse
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The defence alleged abuse of process.
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His evidence, he says, is in relation to an alleged abuse of the internal promotion system.
assault
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The court was told the charges relate alleged assaults between January 1, 1972, and December 31, 1973.
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He's admitted shoplifting, theft and criminal damage but denies two alleged assaults on police.
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He is understood to have approached the youths about an alleged assault in which a shop assistant was hurt.
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The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London.
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This gave details of the alleged assault by him during the incident in question.
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Three of the alleged assaults are said to have occurred on New Year's Eve 1991.
breach
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At Mansfield a 20 year-old miner went to prison even though unconvicted of any offence for alleged breach of bail conditions.
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According to the ITAR-TASS news agency the referendum call was voted down because of alleged breaches in the law during the collection of signatures.
crime
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The cops believe they have both participated in an alleged crime and wish to get one or both to give evidence.
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They also maintained that it would be impossible to hold fair trials so long after the alleged crimes had been committed.
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At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie.
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The three-man tribunal did allow, however, that the exclusion appeared to be too harsh for the alleged crime .
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It is now up to those charged with the duty of investigating alleged crimes to do so.
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I was light years away at the time these alleged crimes took place.
failure
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There was a handful of claims for alleged failure to detect fraud on audit.
fraud
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Ferranti this week received the report it commissioned from accountants Coopers &038; Lybrand on the alleged fraud .
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This was the third time in six months that the federal government had intervened in state politics to redress alleged fraud .
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Ferranti expects to take delivery today of the report it commissioned from Coopers and Lybrand on the alleged fraud .
incident
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The girl, now 16, was 14 at the time of the alleged incident .
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The charges arise from an alleged incident involving a boy aged four in Walton at the weekend.
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Details about the alleged incident were given by a prosecuting lawyer at Belfast Crown Court in the trial of three Londonderry men.
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Three Rochdale men were also charged in connection with the alleged incident .
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Most of the alleged incidents occurred during 1985-89, with some dating back to the late 1970s.
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The alleged incident happened at a house in Railway Street, on Saturday evening, two hours before the two were arrested.
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The charge arose from an alleged incident on October 11 last year in Witham.
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There will be a delay before the case proceeds while his solicitor finds out more information about the alleged incident .
involvement
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About 600 members of the armed forces were discharged for alleged involvement in the coup attempt.
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And in Corse and Over, another four people were arrested and questioned about their alleged involvement in organising the festival.
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One was about the alleged involvement of the special branch.
offence
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No plea was taken from Mr. Bell in respect of the alleged offence of drunk and disorderly behaviour.
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He may still plead not guilty while admitting that he is the person concerned in the alleged offence .
offences
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Paul Hickson was arrested on Thursday and quizzed about alleged offences in a previous job at Swansea University.
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Scarborough magistrates were told that the alleged offences involved a total of £803,000.
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Earlier, he had been detained by fraud police from North Yorkshire investigating alleged offences under the Banking Act.
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The alleged offences started when the girls were then aged four years, three years and the youngest 11 months.
victim
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She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story.
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The 17-year-old alleged victim made the complaint at a police station in Brixton, South London, on Saturday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an alleged conspiracy to murder President Kennedy
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Death was the alleged penalty for those who divulged the secrets of the order.
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He claimed she had frequently discussed her alleged suicide attempts with him.
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Or, conversely, do alleged causes finally need to make sense in a system of rules and rational choices?
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The alleged attacks were said to have taken place at the family's home in Flint.
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The Serious Fraud Office, which is investigating alleged Maxwell share support schemes, also refused to comment.
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Three alleged police informers were murdered in the course of the demonstrations.