Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO men walked free yesterday after being cleared of the manslaughter of twin teenage girls who died in a barn blaze . |
| 2 | JULIAN DICKS had the perfect answer after being stripped of the West Ham captaincy on returning from a five-game ban . |
| 3 | The man escaped from Coney Hill mental hospital in Gloucester , where he 'd been sent exactly a year ago after being convicted of the assault of a three year old girl in the city . |
| 4 | Minutes after being informed of the test results Maureen said : ‘ I 'm just glad I 'm going to get the right one back . |
| 5 | Her oil worker husband , Les , flew home after being told of the tragedy … on his 40th birthday . |
| 6 | Sgt Newman 's father , Eric , 58 , suffered a mild angina attack after being told of the shooting , and was being cared for by a neighbour last night . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was afraid of being suspected of the murder , I suppose . ’ |
| 9 | The Palestinians are also suffering in their country , including being deprived of the use of gas masks and adequate warning systems . |
| 10 | When the messenger arrived in his camp bringing news of his call to the throne , all Imrik said was ‘ Why ? ’ , and upon being told of the murders , he commented ‘ Bad , very bad ’ , which was considered quite long-winded for him . |
| 11 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 12 | and much more was to be heard of the Bethnal Green survey and its implications . |
| 13 | In consolidated financial statements a similar analysis is to be presented of the amounts of minority interest attributable to equity and non-equity shares issued by subsidiaries . |
| 14 | GPs are to be warned of the side effects of prescribing steroids to children after a nine year old girl died after taking the drugs . |
| 15 | Having achieved our reconciliation to God Jesus now asks people everywhere to be reborn of the Spirit in order to enter into his new humanity . |
| 16 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 17 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that a review is to be undertaken of the use by the security and intelligence agencies of informants and other sources ? |
| 18 | There is a history to be written of the VOICE in pop , the voice that makes present the physicality of the body . |
| 19 | It was largely his own determination to be rid of the tag of illness that brought eventual healing . |
| 20 | Tempy was unable to fathom her mistress ' desire to be rid of the groom , nor the depth of feeling behind the words . |
| 21 | Anxious to be rid of the interruption , Madame Weill carefully brought the offending nude inside . |
| 22 | Maybe just wanted to be rid of the dog . |
| 23 | It would certainly save trouble to be rid of the children , and to know they were being taught . |
| 24 | In spite of rationally accepting hardship , I would have done almost anything to be rid of the pain , which by now dominated every thought . |
| 25 | It allows a choice to be made of the tuples in a relation and takes a horizontal subset of an existing table . |
| 26 | A careful analysis needs to be made of the work of the Sixth Form Art students , ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ Level , and methods considered to improve this course . |
| 27 | He has been able to formulate a general model which encompasses existing models and enables tests to be made of the robustness of the results reported in The Population History of England by varying the projection parameters . |
| 28 | This study should allow a reliable assessment to be made of the importance of this factor in the context of classroom computing . |
| 29 | It seems clear that , with careful safeguards , we need some legal machinery , similar to the provision of Place of Safety Orders for children , by which an old person could be received into residential care for their own protection , at least for a limited period of time , which would afford a breathing space for all concerned and enable a proper assessment to be made of the situation — including the wishes of the old person once they were out of the violent or neglectful environment . |
| 30 | The X-rays were quickly ( and accidentally ) found to penetrate living tissue and leave shadows of the less penetrable denser parts , allowing X-ray pictures to be made of the skeleton . |