Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fortnight after being made a minister , this raconteur said that he had joined the Labour Party simply to make sure that ‘ they did nothing too silly ’ . |
| 2 | Apparently , up until quite recently all Warwick basses were made with aluminium truss rods which obviously are not as strong as steel ones and are liable to break after being adjusted a few times . |
| 3 | ‘ And after being sent a poison pen letter and then meeting you again , hitching a lift seems pretty tame stuff ! ’ |
| 4 | Goalkeeper Stuart Ford is poised to join Scarborough on a one-year contract after being granted a free transfer by Rotherham United . |
| 5 | Mr Jason Connery , the son , won £35,000 libel damages ‘ after being branded a coward ’ by a ‘ tabloid ’ and then declared his name ‘ vindicated ’ . |
| 6 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
| 7 | Alan Curtis , the former Welsh international striker , yesterday signed for Swansea after being given a free transfer by Cardiff . |
| 8 | TRANSPLANT patient Lisa Strange , 12 , was fighting for her life yesterday after being given a new heart and lungs . |
| 9 | Hounslow came up with £100,000 after being given a limit of £10,000 . |
| 10 | ‘ My sister Dorothy died from stomach cancer just eight weeks after being given a clean bill of health by a Manchester hospital . |
| 11 | After being given a few minutes to study the diagram the sender is told to go ahead and the time is noted . |
| 12 | DARLINGTON midfield player Gary Gill wants to play abroad after being given a free transfer by new manager Ray Hankin . |
| 13 | In May , the electorate of Wear Valley chose the Liberals after being given a multitude of promises which have yet to be fulfilled . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough striker Bernie Slaven yesterday joined second division promotion-chasers Port Vale on a 15-month contract after being given a free transfer . |
| 15 | Mr Major spoke out during Prime Minister 's question time when MP John Carlisle ( C Luton N ) raised the case of a headteacher who , after being awarded a salary increase , had written to Education Secretary John Patten ‘ telling him he could stuff his pay rise ’ . |
| 16 | Sefton councillors this week stripped the club of its entertainments licence after being handed a police dossier detailing violent and rowdy incidents . |
| 17 | YOUNG riding sensation Adrian Maguire misses the last two days of Cheltenham 's Mackeson Gold Cup meeting after being handed a four-day whip ban by the Wincanton stewards yesterday . |
| 18 | Workers at Smiths Industries in Gloucestershire are to take industrial action after being refused a pay rise . |
| 19 | They would have to live with the consequences if someone was attacked after being refused a weapon . ’ |
| 20 | Mitchell , a first team regular last season , is joining Izmir after being offered a deal which was too good to turn down . |
| 21 | A YOUNG mother has hit out after being offered a council house with a garden which she claims is in a dangerous state . |
| 22 | Jacques Walter , the former owner of van Gogh 's ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , auctioned last year for only FFr55 million after being classified an historic monument ( see The Art Newspaper No.24 , January 1993 , p20 ) , has taken out four law suits against the French State for compensation . |
| 23 | sort of been given a hundred pound upstairs . |
| 24 | That would kind of be kept a bit quiet was it ? |
| 25 | Er , we 're looking at , to whether the branch and the manager , sort of be take a more active role including the the branch sector . |
| 26 | ‘ God in his mercy , lend her grace , ’ she muttered , thinking of Anna , her Anna , who had grown from being such a dull child into a truly engaging woman , a woman so richly deserving of being lent a little of God 's grace . |
| 27 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |
| 28 | But despite the transitional talk of ‘ experimental knowledge ’ , Locke insists that ‘ natural philosophy is not capable of being made a science ’ . |
| 29 | It has , however , long been recognised that the court can exercise jurisdiction in personam against an individual present in England or capable of being made a party to English proceedings in cases in which Equity so requires , even where the subject matter is foreign immovable property . |
| 30 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |