Example sentences of "[prep] [being] [verb] at the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Artrageous ! does have the advantage of being screened at the civilised hour of 7.30 pm , long before the post-Newsnight wasteland . |
| 4 | His success in being accepted at the highest levels of the League enabled him to provide graphic accounts of their meetings and organization . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( It was used to make a " gun-shot " by being popped at the right moment , thereby creating the wrong time for the murder . |