Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 26-year-old victim was tied up , gagged and sexually assaulted in her home after being ambushed by the pair , who were hiding behind dustbins . |
| 2 | Ron and Pat Woolley , of Rhyl , recently took a huge lorry-load of medical supplies , equipment and clothes to the Klaipicla Children 's Hospital in Lithuania after being shocked by the conditions they found there during a previous visit . |
| 3 | THE UK 's previously disparate regions are suffering an identity crisis after being ravaged by the recession , a major survey shows today . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After being rejected by the Sandinistas , he resolved to become a flying doctor and ferry medical supplies to war-stricken campesinos . |
| 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 | On 4 April two officers reported the River Spey to be ‘ low and fordable in … many places ’ and by 12 April , after being joined by the forces from Strathbogie , Cumberland 's army reached the river , where the water level had dropped significantly in the preceding few days . |
| 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 | A draft law lifting the ban on political parties was passed by the National Assembly after being approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate on July 5 and 23 respectively . |
| 10 | An estimated 7,000 people have ‘ disappeared ’ after being seized by the army and right-wing death squads . |
| 11 | THE FAMOUS Spirit of Liverpool statue at Liverpool 's Walker Art Gallery needs repairing after being eroded by the elements . |
| 12 | Crocodiles digest all the mineral matter in bones , leaving the soft organic residues that decay rapidly after being voided by the crocodile . |
| 13 | Born in 1913 in Silesia , the descendant of a Turkish soldier who had settled in Poland after being captured by the Poles at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 , he was educated at a Gymnasium in Warsaw and at the Universities of Warsaw , Berlin and Bordeaux , where he studied history and journalism . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As Great Britain 's top Olympic hope , Dodson faltered in the second round in Barcelona last summer , beaten by the scales after being forced by the ABA to fight as a welterweight . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Boyd 's team visited the ten pits after being told by the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , to establish whether British Coal had met the prescribed criteria for closure . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The bill , after being passed by the Lords , receives the royal assent , a mere formality , whereby the monarch accedes to the bill . |
| 20 | Nobody knew how much they burrowed into one 's past , and this ignorance coupled with a fear of being rejected by the Legion was enough to make most people tell the truth . |
| 21 | This feeling of utter helplessness , of being buffeted by the whims of some other person , was new and decidedly unsettling . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom was an original party to the Convention but did not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the Commission and Court until 1965 and then only for a three-year term which , however , has so far been regularly renewed although not without some hesitancy prompted by the embarrassment and ignominy of being condemned by the Court on a number of occasions . |
| 23 | Then once having disposed of the bogus Robert Gravier , the real Mr G. could live on his swindled millions without fear of being chased by the law or his many creditors . |
| 24 | Britain 's potential for generating wind energy , which is the highest in Europe , is in danger of being neglected by the government , according to Friends of the Earth . |
| 25 | It seems that Napoleon III briefly entertained the idea of being crowned by the pope , as his uncle had been , but Pius IX showed little enthusiasm for this scheme . |
| 26 | Instead of being inherited by the process of Mendelian genetics , it is ‘ inherited ’ by imitation . |
| 27 | Although one consequence of their detached status was that the Commissioners tended to be remote from the day to day process of policy formulation in the higher echelons of the Home Office , they had the advantage of being perceived by the Prison Service as providing a collective leadership in which the professional element in the service could and did play a significant part . |
| 28 | They remained , therefore , on the outskirts of the town , until , terrified of being crushed by the mob , they decided to seek refuge in the open fields , but they had hardly agreed on this when fresh ash clouds , denser than ever , overwhelmed them and brought total darkness . |
| 29 | He knew we could n't abide his ways , and he was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him , so he begged for the honour of being killed by the enemy instead . ’ |
| 30 | I realised that I was in danger of being fooled by the maps . |