Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In high fertility societies such as are found in the Africa region , the modification of these goals would be a first step in efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality . |
| 2 | Souness faces another touchline ban after being banished from the Selhurst Park dug-out by referee Roger Dilkes for allegedly swearing at a linesman during Liverpool 's 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace on Tuesday night . |
| 3 | After being defeated by the Roundheads at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 , the future King was compelled to run for his life , and this was how he came to Boscobel . |
| 4 | The minority government formed by the Social Democratic Labour Party ( SAP ) in October 1988 [ see pp. 36357-58 ] resigned on Feb. 15 after being defeated in the Riksdag ( parliament ) on a package of stringent austerity measures . |
| 5 | JULIAN DICKS had the perfect answer after being stripped of the West Ham captaincy on returning from a five-game ban . |
| 6 | The Army team 's last hope in the Inter-Service Championship disappeared at Aldershot last week when they lost 2–0 to the Royal Navy , after being beaten by the R.A.F. the week before . |
| 7 | Peake will be on duty at Fratton Park after being cup-tied for the Rumbelows League Cup replay against Peterborough United . |
| 8 | After being hidden by the SS , it was sold to an officer with the US forces in 1945 by a Nazi Party curator desperate for money . |
| 9 | TV BEAUTY Kathy Pitkin is ‘ devastated ’ after being axed from the BBC 's struggling soap Eldorado . |
| 10 | On June 9 the Senegalese army was reported to have confirmed that six of its soldiers had been killed after being captured by the NPFL . |
| 11 | Turner may have finally made up his mind to move after being dropped from the Newbridge side which travelled to Swansea on Saturday after Newport announced he was on his way to Rodney Parade . |
| 12 | James Cocker , 53 , of Milton Road West , Edinburgh , was said to be in stable condition at Stirling Royal Infirmary last night after being recovered by the Killin mountain rescue team . |
| 13 | After being returned to the USA he was convicted of drug trafficking , money laundering , and racketeering charges in April 1992 [ see p. 38857 ] , and sentenced to 40 years ' imprisonment . |
| 14 | No doubt he will be giving the point more thought after being assailed in the Commons yesterday over the behaviour of his Northern Ireland minister , Michael Mates . |
| 15 | The riders ' six-seater aircraft was turned upside down after being caught in the Tornado 's slipstream . |
| 16 | Though he might jibe at the London Group , his own work was sufficiently acceptable to this conservative exhibiting society for him to be elected a member in 1949 , the same year that he was represented in ‘ The Art of the Book Jacket ’ which , after being shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum , went on tour at home and abroad . |
| 17 | DEREK IRONSIDE Home and dry : oil workers arrive safely at Aberdeen Airport after being taken off the North Sea accommodation vessel by helicopter Floating free : yesterday 's picture , from an RAF helicopter , of the Safe Supporter ‘ flotel ’ |
| 18 | Mrs Sharon Smith gave birth to her first baby , a son named Oliver , 28 hours after being admitted to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester in June . |
| 19 | Barry had entered a Florida alcohol abuse centre on Jan. 22 , four days after being arrested in the Vista International Hotel , Washington , where he was filmed smoking crack cocaine in the room of a former girlfriend , Hazel " Rasheeda " Moore [ see p. 37180 ] . |
| 20 | After being arrested by the Securitate , Lupescu is dragged in chains before Ceauşescu , who demands to know how much he is paid for his jokes . |
| 21 | Sheffield Eagles , still homeless after being banned from the Owlerton Stadium , have brought forward their home match against Leeds from 29 October to Wednesday , 25 October , to enable it to take place at Wakefield . |
| 22 | The bill , after being passed by the Lords , receives the royal assent , a mere formality , whereby the monarch accedes to the bill . |
| 23 | In Russia , people have had to build mikvas secretly , some of them have built a hidden one t-n their home , and have had to live constantly with the fear of being discovered by the KGB who would imprison them because of it . |
| 24 | MISSING three of their better players , Chelmsford were over-run by Rochford and can not ignore the possibility of being relegated from the London Division Three North East . |
| 25 | But Hill is a fighter , a man who knows all about the inner trauma of rejection and who overcame the stigma of being stripped of the England captaincy and banned . |
| 26 | The wave of cold-blooded attacks confirmed fears of a dramatic increase in Loyalist violence directed against constitutional nationalists and those suspected of being connected with the IRA , no matter how loosely . |
| 27 | Eastwards , Cliff Lane goes past the old school , the post office and a row of cottages to the cliff top , where it is demonstrated why Mappleton has recently achieved tremendous publicity as it is the next English village in danger of being swept into the North Sea . |
| 28 | She now has every chance of being included in the Ireland World Cup squad . |
| 29 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 30 | But it was Gerry Conlon 's account of being interrogated after the Guildford bombings that made the scalp crawl . |