Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] at the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Arrested : A distraught Ms Gibson shouts to reporters after being held at the airport |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Egyptians have recent memories of being beaten at the hands of western-backed armies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Artrageous ! does have the advantage of being screened at the civilised hour of 7.30 pm , long before the post-Newsnight wasteland . |
| 14 | London Underground said last night the station was in the process of being evacuated at the time of the blast . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His success in being accepted at the highest levels of the League enabled him to provide graphic accounts of their meetings and organization . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The NRA Southern Region is now looking for Technical Assistants and Trainee Scientists to be based at the new analytical laboratory at Waterlooville in Hampshire which will be the main centre for chemical , biological and microbiological analysis of effluent and surface water samples collected throughout the Region . |
| 23 | The unit is likely to be based at the Bryn-y-Neuadd hospital in Llanfairfeshan , near Bangor . |
| 24 | The company will be the largest freight carrier to be based at the Speke airport . |
| 25 | With DITRA matting , laying floor tiles is quick and simple , because once the sheets are cut to size and laid , the floor tile adhesive can be applied immediately , allowing the tiles to be fixed at the same time . |
| 26 | The Tourism ( Sleeping Accommodation Price Display ) Order 1977 , which became effective in 1978 , requires that the tariff showing rates for each type of room to be displayed at the reception desk in a prominent position ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 27 | Ralston did say that the first volume Knopf intends to publish ( and is now rushing to complete ) will be entitled French Masterpieces of the Barnes Collection , with an introduction by Richard Wattenmaker , an alumnus of the Barnes art appreciation classes , who is currently director of the Archives of American Art in Washington , D.C. Catalogue essays , by a team of ten writers five from the National Gallery in Washington , five from the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in France will examine eighty works from the Barnes to be displayed at the National Gallery , the starting point for the Barnes tour . |
| 28 | Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives . |
| 29 | 5.22 Defective premises To give notice to the Landlord of any defect in the Premises which might give rise to an obligation on the Landlord to do or refrain from doing any act or thing in order to comply with the provisions of this Lease or the duty of care imposed on the Landlord pursuant to the Defective Premises Act 1972 or otherwise and at all times to display and maintain all notices which the Landlord may from time to time [ reasonably ] require to be displayed at the Premises The difficulty here is that this covenant could impose an unfair obligation on the tenant and it should therefore be amended as follows : To give notice to the Landlord upon becoming aware of any defect … 5.23 New guarantor Within [ 14 ] days of the death during the Term of any Guarantor or of such person becoming bankrupt or having a receiving order made against him or having a receiver appointed under the Mental Health Act 1983 or being a company passing a resolution to wind up or entering into liquidation or having a receiver appointed to give notice of this to the Landlord and if so required by the Landlord at the expense of the Tenant within [ 28 ] days to procure some other person acceptable to the Landlord [ such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld ] to execute a guarantee in respect of the Tenant 's obligations contained in this Lease in the form of the Guarantor 's covenants contained in this Lease Although this may be perfectly fair and reasonable in that a guarantor 's covenants are expected to last during the period for which they are given , many tenants try to resist this covenant on the basis that it may be extremely difficult for the tenant to produce an alternative guarantor . |
| 30 | Further research has been conducted at Silsoe this year and the technique is to be displayed at the European Grassland Demonstration at Stoneleigh in May . |