Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] at [art] " 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 | The Perkins may have come to regret this decision because , after being eclipsed at the exhibition , the demand for their mauve dye decreased rapidly , and they found that the commercial potential for magenta dye had been grossly underestimated . |
| 3 | After being enrolled at the university at the age of seventeen , Freud studied physiology , biology and anatomy . |
| 4 | Demeke was ordered to be held without bail after being arraigned at a New York court last night . |
| 5 | Diego bust-up : Seville directors will today discuss Diego Maradona 's future after he stormed out of the Spanish club 's stadium after being substituted at the weekend . |
| 6 | Twin sisters , Emma and Becky Harper , died shortly after being filmed at a family party in Cheltenham . |
| 7 | Arrested : A distraught Ms Gibson shouts to reporters after being held at the airport |
| 8 | Though he might jibe at the London Group , his own work was sufficiently acceptable to this conservative exhibiting society for him to be elected a member in 1949 , the same year that he was represented in ‘ The Art of the Book Jacket ’ which , after being shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum , went on tour at home and abroad . |
| 9 | Have you ever had the experience of being met at an airport or a station by someone who did n't know you ? |
| 10 | Jane , because she was a mistress , rarely had an opportunity to attend the more elegant events of society , and she was not going to miss this chance of being seen at a duchess 's ball . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Egyptians have recent memories of being beaten at the hands of western-backed armies . |
| 13 | But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition . |
| 14 | in respect of self-employed persons , in receipt of National Insurance Unemployment Benefit or in the absence of the entitlement to such benefit provides satisfactory evidence of being registered at the Department of Employment ( DHSS in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 15 | while they 're away , well , she never , she was quite happy to let you go ahead and do it she said , the only thing was , she said she 'd miss having the privacy in that corner because of being overlooked at the back . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Even butterflies take note of being captured at a certain location and when subsequently released , avoid the area for some while after . |
| 18 | In this way there is less chance of being caught at a disadvantage or being ambushed by circumstances . |
| 19 | For instance , in the law of contract the question , ‘ What is the difference between void and voidable contracts ? ’ can be accurately answered by saying that a void contract is an apparent contract that is in truth no contract at all , while a voidable contract is a contract that is capable of being avoided at the option of one party . |
| 20 | Artrageous ! does have the advantage of being screened at the civilised hour of 7.30 pm , long before the post-Newsnight wasteland . |
| 21 | London Underground said last night the station was in the process of being evacuated at the time of the blast . |
| 22 | Despite being scheduled at the end of a long golfing year , the size of the Championship purse should ensure the participation of those eligible to enter . |
| 23 | Evidence for the importance of this ‘ rural-urban shift ’ can be found in the fact that London sustained such heavy population loss in the 1970s despite being located at the heart of the most dynamic region in the UK . |
| 24 | They always bid for funerals and I can remember folk on in being horrified at the idea that folk would put a notice in a window . |
| 25 | His success in being accepted at the highest levels of the League enabled him to provide graphic accounts of their meetings and organization . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A lawyer and former oilfield worker , he was head of government for nine years in the 1950s and 1960s under British colonial rule before being beaten at the polls by a charismatic rival , Mr Eric Gairy . |
| 28 | Mittal asserted that he had been abducted from outside his home and later beaten and tortured with electric shocks before being left at a police station . |
| 29 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 30 | They say the centre , to be based at a former young offenders institution , will treat refugees as criminals . |