Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | A £5-A-RACE flagman was today facing the prospect of disciplinary action over the Grand National fiasco after being made the scapegoat in the official inquiry report . |
| 3 | ‘ And after being sent a poison pen letter and then meeting you again , hitching a lift seems pretty tame stuff ! ’ |
| 4 | I was dragged out of bed half asleep after being kidnapped the night before . |
| 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 | In May , the electorate of Wear Valley chose the Liberals after being given a multitude of promises which have yet to be fulfilled . |
| 8 | Hounslow came up with £100,000 after being given a limit of £10,000 . |
| 9 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
| 10 | LITTLE Laura Davies can not wait to start school after being given the all-clear to travel home following her double transplant operation in America five months ago . |
| 11 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 12 | With punters across the country totally baffled , the field regrouped and , after being given the go-ahead by course officials after an eight minute break , started again , this time jumping the offending obstacle . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Workers at Smiths Industries in Gloucestershire are to take industrial action after being refused a pay rise . |
| 15 | They would have to live with the consequences if someone was attacked after being refused a weapon . ’ |
| 16 | A YOUNG mother has hit out after being offered a council house with a garden which she claims is in a dangerous state . |
| 17 | Mitchell , a first team regular last season , is joining Izmir after being offered a deal which was too good to turn down . |
| 18 | That would kind of be kept a bit quiet was it ? |
| 19 | As consolation , he accepted a £1,000 cheque and the additional prize of being named the Institute 's top trainee . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But despite the transitional talk of ‘ experimental knowledge ’ , Locke insists that ‘ natural philosophy is not capable of being made a science ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves … no slave is a slave to the same lengths and in so full a sense of the word as a wife is [ for her husband ] can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being , that of being made the instrument of an animal function contrary to her inclinations . ’ |
| 25 | In fact , its success was such that it was given the ‘ unique honour ’ of being made the secretariat to the Intergroup on Animal Welfare — an all-party committee which discusses welfare issues . |
| 26 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 27 | The ‘ normal minimum admission standards ’ listed in these tables are for many areas of study a realistic indication of the grades likely to be required and applicants who hold these grades stand an excellent chance of being made an offer , eg for most degrees in the Faculty of Arts , the Faculty of Science and Engineering , and the less pressured areas in the Social Sciences such as Nursing Studies or Social Policy . |
| 28 | Applicants who will have met the minimum academic entrance requirements by the time they enter university stand a good chance of being made an offer : those who have already met these requirements before applying will receive unconditional offers , while those with examinations still to take will receive conditional offers . |
| 29 | Suppositions built on postcards and photographs might be as ill-founded as his short-lived suspicions of being followed the night before . |
| 30 | The JMP 's channels are : OD1 ( classic vintage style Marshall distortion but capable of being pushed a lot farther ) ; OD2 ( modern , more distorted and thrashy , but can be tamed ) ; Clean 1 ( basically the rhythm version of OD1 , sparkling and natural ) ; and Clean 2 ( ultra sparkly , studio-style clean sounds — very LA ) . |