Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , here on Earth , astronomers at the Anglo-Australian Observatory at Siding Spring in New South Wales have evolved a new system that can produce astonishing infrared views such as are shown on these pages . |
| 2 | Their link-up of slavery with forms of domination within the family is well documented in traditional systems of slavery such as are found in many parts of Africa . |
| 3 | The amendments shall enter into force after being ratified by all Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements . ’ |
| 4 | GLADIATORS TV presenter Ulrika Jonson has confessed to ‘ marital problems ’ after being pictured with another man . |
| 5 | The doors , after being fitted in this gauge , were handed over to the coach finishers , who fitted the casing boards , either of walnut or mahogany . |
| 6 | ‘ After being approached by several manufacturing companies it became obvious that the manufacturing aspect to our business could be handled by others , leaving us free to concentrate on our core business the design , specification and installation side . ’ |
| 7 | Subjects came up with well-organized fantasy sequences after being roused from some periods with high levels of EEG alpha and saccadic eye movements consistent with relaxed wakefulness . |
| 8 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 9 | In the Descent of Man , published in eighteen seventy one , he says some intelligent actions , as when birds on oceanic islands first learn to avoid man , after being performed during many generations , become converted into instincts and are inherited . |
| 10 | ‘ My only excuse is that I was pretty exhausted after my stay in the Middle East , and not totally reorientated after being awakened after such a short sleep . |
| 11 | Fewer pigs are kept in these republics ( pork being an unclean meat for Muslims , as it is for Jews ) and traditional customs such as the postponement of cohabitation ( kaitarma ) , pilgrimages to the graves of local holy men and even abduction are still practised , in some cases with the covert support of local party officials ( most tragic of all were the reports of girls who had burned themselves to death after being dishonoured in this and other ways ) . |
| 12 | ‘ ( 1 ) The Bank may , on an application duly made in accordance with section 8 above and after being provided with all such information , documents and reports as it may require under that section , grant or refuse the application . |
| 13 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 14 | And when she starts seeing things she wants , that her mates have got , we might not be able to afford things , because we 've sort of been dumped in this situation . |
| 15 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 16 | We did have hopes of being re-equipped for this Tripoli show , ’ — by coincidence he was writing on the very day Tripoli fell — ‘ but they did n't materialise , so we shall have to seek the bubble reputation elsewhere . |
| 17 | Revealing that they had cystic fibrosis at job interviews reduced likelihood of being employed for those with mild to moderate disease . |
| 18 | The Pioneer Corps was non-combatant , though volunteers had to accept the risks ‘ of being employed in any theatre of war ’ . |
| 19 | The Directive is perfectly capable of being applied in such a sensitive way . |
| 20 | Aesthetic appearance , rarity and durability may have been the physical attributes which led particular substances to be categorized as precious , but it was the fact of being recognized as such which made them effective as symbols . |
| 21 | On August 19th , Palme Dutt — revealing a capacity to assess political realities independently of the Moscow line which , in all his long years as Britain 's foremost guardian of Communist orthodoxy , he was seldom to repeat — insisted the issue was ‘ not essentially a revolutionary class issue , but simply an expression of war-weariness and horror at the prospect of being dragged into another war . ’ |
| 22 | Finally , as if all this was n't enough , the effects of being covered with this diseased , filthy mucus are identical to those from falling into the Miasmic Marsh ( area 63 ) — although they are not cumulative with those effects . |
| 23 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 24 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 25 | It must be capable of being repeated at some later date . |
| 26 | The arbitrary implications of undefinable rights are particularly evident where the right claimed is by its nature not capable of being satisfied by any degree of compulsion exercised within the relevant society . |
| 27 | He says that the sheds need a good clean up , some of the cattle are showing the effects of being kept in such muddy conditions . |
| 28 | In Filliter v. Phippard the word ‘ accidentally ’ was interpreted restrictively so as to cover only ‘ a fire produced by mere chance or incapable of being traced to any cause . ’ |
| 29 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 30 | She had no intention of being accepted by this family . |