Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said he was driving the car into which she was dragged after being grabbed from behind . |
| 2 | The 32-year-old woman was attacked in Arkendale Street at 1.20am after being grabbed from behind and knocked to the ground . |
| 3 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |
| 4 | He could also expect record damages after being jailed for almost 10 months . |
| 5 | ‘ Look ! ’ she snapped after being dragged into yet another smart boutique . |
| 6 | After being detained for over an hour and interrogated by the police captain , he is finally permitted to leave ( scene six ) . |
| 7 | Posh hammered Kingstonian 9–1 in an FA Cup first round replay on Wednesday , but the non-league side 's keeper , Adrian Blake , is still ‘ very poorly ’ after being hit by up to seven missiles . |
| 8 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 9 | He scored 109 as the West Indies reached 225–3 in their second innings after being dismissed for only 183 and following-on . |
| 10 | The 32-year-old man was shot in the stomach after being robbed of just 26p . |
| 11 | Oumarou Aman , Cameroon : released from labour camp in January 1991 after being held for more than six years without charge or trial . |
| 12 | A BRITISH Airways pilot killed himself after being blamed for nearly flying a packed Boeing 747 into a hotel . |
| 13 | It was the first time the 25-year-old has been able to speak about her ordeal since she was found early on Friday morning after being abducted from near a disco in south Dublin . |
| 14 | Peter Heather received a 40-year jail term after being caught with less than 400 grammes of heroin . |
| 15 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 16 | Well then you 'll have to sort , by then with a bit of luck you might of been established with somewhere yourself might n't ya ? |
| 17 | I was very glad were not , we we could easily of been going to tonight . |
| 18 | In sum : the classical law of trusts had already lost the advantage of capacity , but it retained the advantages of being bound to neither testamentary heir , nor form , nor formulary procedure . |
| 19 | Any recording system must be capable of being repeated in exactly the same form on future dates . |
| 20 | Saussure does say that the two are as inseparable as the two sides of a single sheet of paper , but the very existence of the terms themselves implies the possibility of an independent signified existing prior to its signifier , and therefore capable of being represented by more than one signifier . |
| 21 | An awareness of a longer span of time also comes with motherhood , a sense of being connected to both past and future through a succession of births . |
| 22 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 23 | The decision to ‘ open a case ’ marks a critical difference in the construction of and response to a person 's problems , and confers potential gains and losses ; the latter includes the danger of being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions that may threaten a person 's autonomy . |
| 24 | On June 29 , President Levon Ter-Petrosyan accused the ARF of having co-operated with the KGB ( the former Soviet state security service ) and of being directed from abroad . |
| 25 | ‘ Like the sonata , the concerto also has the same seriousness of purpose and it is very definitely large-scale in its emotional and musical content , in spite of being set in just one single movement . ’ |
| 26 | MAL A feeling of being watched from within |
| 27 | In particular it is important to note whether the sets are open sets ( like the set of all nouns which is capable of being added to indefinitely ) or closed sets ( like the set of demonstratives ) . |
| 28 | Lifts are like shared entrances , you never know who is in them and you run the risk of being trapped in there with an attacker . |
| 29 | I could see no prospects myself of being released in much under twelve months . |
| 30 | Indeed , I felt a little frightened of the prospect of being torn from there , torn like ivy from a solid wall that had borne me through more than three years of my short life . |