Example sentences of "[prep] being [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he holed from 12 feet to keep his slender advantage after being bunkered at the sixteenth . |
| 2 | It also had an upgraded processor , Intel 8086 , which was a more capable version of the 8088 , and , incidentally , was capable of being run at a faster speed — although it was n't . |
| 3 | All these general trends are , however , capable of being reversed at the local level where conditions may occasionally fly in the face of the overall pattern . |
| 4 | Even butterflies take note of being captured at a certain location and when subsequently released , avoid the area for some while after . |
| 5 | Artrageous ! does have the advantage of being screened at the civilised hour of 7.30 pm , long before the post-Newsnight wasteland . |
| 6 | His success in being accepted at the highest levels of the League enabled him to provide graphic accounts of their meetings and organization . |
| 7 | This is illustrated by the case of a girl who experienced a tremendous shock some three to four years before being seen at the homoeopathic out-patient clinic . |
| 8 | He admits to being surprised at the split attitudes of middle-aged men — and even some of the younger ones — who want their daughters to have a proper career structure but then fail to apply that belief at work . |
| 9 | She faced her anger at being abandoned at an earlier age than anyone would have expected , and talked about loneliness . |
| 10 | ( It was used to make a " gun-shot " by being popped at the right moment , thereby creating the wrong time for the murder . |