Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Farming communities , such as are found in Central Wales , benefitted a great deal from the advent of the railway : it meant cheaper raw materials , but at the same time the value of farm produce increased due to the railways ' ease of access to the more affluent urban markets . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Winston Scott has been transferred to Albany prison on the Isle of Wight , where he was on hunger strike for a week after being placed in solitary confinement . |
| 4 | A similar number ran away after being placed in local authority care . |
| 5 | Police fear that IRA bombers based in Britain are training their sights on other major cities after being foiled in three recent attempts to bomb London . |
| 6 | Critics of the administration 's policy claimed that some Haitians who had fled the country a second time , after being repatriated in 1991 , had given evidence of persecution in interviews to UN officials . |
| 7 | The government was also anxious to protect the interests of some 2,000 British citizens living in Iraq , including Parish and Ian Richter , a businessman serving a life sentence after being convicted in 1987 of corruption . |
| 8 | At the end of May 1989 a new supreme representative body , the 2,250-member Congress of People 's Deputies , held its inaugural session after being elected in three rounds of voting during the previous two months . |
| 9 | The main beneficiaries were Theret and Roger-Patrice Pelat , a financier and longtime friend of Mr Mitterrand , who died shortly after being indicted in 1989 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | SMOOTH TV frontman Frank Bough lost his cool yesterday after being named in kinky sex allegations splashed across a Sunday newspaper — for the second time in his career . |
| 12 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 13 | This trial was repeated in the life of one of her daughters , Mary , who gave birth to a son a week after being widowed in 1737 . |
| 14 | It hit Hawaii fifteen hours later , wrecking boats and beaches , ruining the Waikiki tourist trade ; and twenty-four hours after being triggered in southern Chile , it hit Japan , 10,000 miles north . |
| 15 | The paintings became State property after being nationalised in 1918 from the collection of Irina 's industrialist father , Sergei , by Lenin in person . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | After being washed in distilled water , the slides were counterstained with 0.1% nuclear fast red in 5% aluminium sulphate for five minutes , dehydrated , and mounted using a synthetic mounting medium ( Vitro-Club , Langenbrink , Emmendingen , Germany ) . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Tarcisio Medina Charry , a 21-year-old student , ‘ disappeared ’ after being arrested in 1988 . |
| 20 | And in Halewood , Merseyside , a 40-year-old man was also taken to Whiston after being burned in Lower Lane , but he too escaped with just slight injuries . |
| 21 | The town in North Bohemia , one of Europe 's most environmentally devastated regions , declared an emergency last Friday after being engulfed in dense , sulphurous smog for days . |
| 22 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 23 | Once inside the Sellafield factory , the spent fuel goes through a production line in which it is first stripped of its external cladding and then chemically separated after being dissolved in nitric acid . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Pioneer Corps was non-combatant , though volunteers had to accept the risks ‘ of being employed in any theatre of war ’ . |
| 26 | The Directive is perfectly capable of being applied in such a sensitive way . |
| 27 | The fears of those who had stayed away in 1964 were in danger of being realised in 1988 . |
| 28 | These are at their most impressive on the backs of the giant crocodiles , where they are lozenge-shaped and give these formidable reptiles the appearance of being covered in spiked metal armour-plating . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |