Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these can be expressed as a distance-decay function and indeed costs of migration may largely be a matter of distance as in the case of outmigration from island economies such as are found in the Caribbean or Oceania ; others are political and virtually insurmountable , such as national frontiers . |
| 2 | A man who nearly died after being stabbed in an unprovoked attack , has returned home from hospital . |
| 3 | Yet after being annihilated in the first Test , England showed they could still fight . |
| 4 | In October the then Justice Minister , Hsiao Tien-tsang , resigned after being implicated in an influence-peddling scandal over land re-zoning . |
| 5 | Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by the Serbs . |
| 6 | AZUMAH NELSON of Ghana retained his WBC super-feather title in Lake Tahoe but Calvin Grove went the distance after being floored in the first round . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , two men were recovering in hospital in Belfast after being shot in the loyalist Shankill Road area during the night . |
| 8 | But both the try and the victory itself were sweet moments for a player who earlier this season was advised to quit the sport after being injured in an All Ireland league match against Ballymena . |
| 9 | Striker Ferdinand , one of the midweek heroes in the win at Coventry , was taken to hospital after being replaced in the second half . |
| 10 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 11 | M did well with Manchester University 's Dr Baker too , showing a blindfold , ear-muffed child guessing compass bearings after being twirled in a rotating chair by a Lady Di look-alike . |
| 12 | A SCOTTISH researcher has been led to safety after being trapped in a remote wildlife reserve by gun battles raging between rival forces in the African republic of Rwanda . |
| 13 | His suspension starts this Saturday , along with a two-match ban for Dicks , who is now even further over the 31-points mark after being booked in a stormy clash at Oxford United on Tuesday night . |
| 14 | The highly-rated defender , who has brought League scouts flocking to the Huish , looks certain to miss the game after being booked in the second round replay triumph at Hereford . |
| 15 | On a day when several players missed training with niggling end of season injuries , Taylor 's only other major concern is Gascoigne , who underwent an operation to repair his cracked cheekbone three weeks ago after being hurt in the 2–2 draw against Holland . |
| 16 | Pears was whisked off still wearing his goalkeeper 's jersey and limping heavily after being hurt in the final minutes . |
| 17 | It was also revealed that a baby died after being delivered in the birthing pool at the Churchill John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford , although the hospital has ruled out any connection between the death and the method of birth . |
| 18 | Clare Leighton , of Cannock , Staffordshire , developed massive internal bleeding and died in hospital 36 hours after being admitted in a delirious condition . |
| 19 | A brass band from Point of Ayr Colliery , which has been given a temporary reprieve from closure after being included in a 90-day pit review , headed the rally . |
| 20 | For many years it has been known that black people are more likely than whites to be admitted to hospital for treatment of mental disorder , more likely to be admitted compulsorily following being arrested in a public place by the police and far more likely to be diagnosed as having schizophrenia than white people . |
| 21 | Most young girls of 25 would turn pale at the idea of being placed in a small Bolivian village where electricity and running water are next on the list of forthcoming attractions after sliced bread . |
| 22 | Most young girls of 25 would turn pale at the idea of being placed in a small Bolivian village where electricity and running water are next on the list of forthcoming attractions after sliced bread . |
| 23 | In this case the mother submitted to the judge that to order the removal of the child from the United Kingdom back to Canada would expose him to a grave risk of being placed in an intolerable situation . |
| 24 | No station was allowed to take a prize in the same class for more than two successive years , but if a station which had done so was deemed worthy of being placed in the same class in a third year , it received a special first-class certificate but no money . |
| 25 | However , there is no point investing for the long term at the risk of being caned in the short term . |
| 26 | The larger world gave the impression of being locked in an eternal , stuffy , irritable embrace of opposites : Americans with Russians ; governments with trade unions ; the young with the middle-aged . |
| 27 | ‘ The chances of being libelled in a big way are probably much the same as winning the football pools , and the results are very much the same . ’ |
| 28 | Economic information is not normally capable of being tested in the same way , but is still fairly reliable as the economy is so closely associated with material evidence . |
| 29 | But it is true that , with some 70% of outstanding shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the vaults of friendly business partners , Japanese firms are under little pressure to increase dividends and their managements have few fears of being replaced in a sudden stockmarket coup . |
| 30 | ( 6 ) A legal estate is not capable of subsisting or of being created in an undivided share in land or of being held by an infant . |