Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workshop session following Mr Leitch 's presentation showed just what an inexact science publishing is , as groups of publishers and booksellers produced substantially different results after being asked to prepare a sales and profitability forecast of a new Routledge business book . |
| 2 | The deputy was investigated after being seen feeling a colleague 's groin . |
| 3 | More or less any adult can provide the whole curriculum single-handed after being trained to control a class and given an occasional top-up day of in-service training . |
| 4 | It is customary for a successful candidate after being elected to move a vote of thanks to the returning officer and his staff for their work in connection with the election , and this is usually seconded by an unsuccessful candidate . |
| 5 | If , after being ordered using a map , a pair of linked contigs are adjacent then these links are more likely to be genuine . |
| 6 | Wilkinson joined Nottingham Forest after being ordered to get a haircut by manager Brian Clough . |
| 7 | She moved with a nunlike tranquillity from one sequence to the next , thinking nothing of being asked to drag a beast through a blizzard , and clearly suffering none of the discomfort felt by others . |
| 8 | The plaintiffs claim damages from a number of defendants , including the third defendant , under the following heads : ( 1 ) general damages for conspiracy ; ( 2 ) exemplary damages on the basis that the acts complained of were calculated to make a profit for the conspirators or their companies and constituted a cynical disregard for the plaintiffs ' rights ; and ( 3 ) damages for deceit as an alternative to damages for conspiracy . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's the rush ? ’ a harried clerk had asked when Caroline had tried to talk her way into being permitted to enter a summer class that was already under way . |
| 10 | T.McLuhan in Touch the Earth ( Abacus : 1972 ) ( 54 ) quotes a chief from one of the principal bands of the northern Blackfeet upon being asked to sign a Land Treaty by white men in his region : |
| 11 | Curry spent two years at Harrogate Theatre before being asked to present a Saturday morning TV show and later Blue Peter . |
| 12 | On Sundays the ‘ psalm children ’ came from the villages to be heard reciting a psalm which they had learnt by heart during the week . |
| 13 | The tubes may have to be cut to accommodate a powerhead pump on each one . |
| 14 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 15 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |
| 16 | Some were just curious , and would pretend to have lost their way and hope to be invited to spend a night . |
| 17 | I was pleased to be invited to contribute a foreword for this new journal on technology transfer , not least because its title — Competitive Edge — so aptly sums up what we all want British industry to achieve . |
| 18 | ‘ There is simply not enough evidence for a jury to be invited to consider a charge of manslaughter against Smith and Winter , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It is hard to convey to those who do not remember the abysmal depths of post-war British catering what a heady sensation it was to be invited to strike a blow for improvement — or to strike a restaurant off for bad cooking , uncleanliness or lack of attention . |
| 20 | ‘ The customers were mostly Japanese and the girls sat in a damp back room waiting to be called to join a man at his table . |
| 21 | I do n't think so , th the point is I 'm not going to be called to tie a knot like this again for maybe three weeks and then by then I 'll make things up it was really more for convenience than sitting down trying to work it out myself so you know . |
| 22 | The main problem , said Ryzhkov in December , was an acute shortage of rolling stock : freight tariffs had barely changed in 40 years and had to be raised to finance a modernization plan for 1991-2000 . |
| 23 | This is especially the case when the boy or girl to be adopted has a disability or a disturbed background . |
| 24 | Whatever curves I specified had to be made using a bandsaw , a drum-sander , spokeshave and scraper . |
| 25 | The first point to be made echoes a remark in the opening paragraph of this chapter ; namely that effective creative production and an ongoing state of serious mental illness seem quite incompatible . |
| 26 | Within the review sections attempts began to be made to develop a discourse that was at once professionally autonomous and modernizing , critical as well as scholarly . |
| 27 | He did n't want to be made to look a bastard to his friends . |
| 28 | With the Sun now passing through Virgo and the travel angle of your solar chart , you seem to be determined to strike a blow for freedom . |
| 29 | Yes , it is difficult to believe that before Sly Stallone was blasting out showers of bullets , he was at one time more likely to be seen wielding a pair of scissors and blowing hot and cold with a hairdryer . |
| 30 | There he could entertain certain people who might be useful — people with information to give but who were afraid to be seen entering a barracks or Dublin Castle … . |