Example sentences of "[prep] being [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A £5-A-RACE flagman was today facing the prospect of disciplinary action over the Grand National fiasco after being made the scapegoat in the official inquiry report . |
| 2 | I was dragged out of bed half asleep after being kidnapped the night before . |
| 3 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
| 4 | LITTLE Laura Davies can not wait to start school after being given the all-clear to travel home following her double transplant operation in America five months ago . |
| 5 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 6 | With punters across the country totally baffled , the field regrouped and , after being given the go-ahead by course officials after an eight minute break , started again , this time jumping the offending obstacle . |
| 7 | As consolation , he accepted a £1,000 cheque and the additional prize of being named the Institute 's top trainee . |
| 8 | ‘ Far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves … no slave is a slave to the same lengths and in so full a sense of the word as a wife is [ for her husband ] can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being , that of being made the instrument of an animal function contrary to her inclinations . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , its success was such that it was given the ‘ unique honour ’ of being made the secretariat to the Intergroup on Animal Welfare — an all-party committee which discusses welfare issues . |
| 10 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 11 | Suppositions built on postcards and photographs might be as ill-founded as his short-lived suspicions of being followed the night before . |
| 12 | Above all , you need to take advantage of being given the chance to put your own point of view . |
| 13 | Within minutes of being given the treatment his walking was much improved , and the following day he was walking around without any sticks and was also able to climb up and down stairs unaided — a thing he had been unable to do for at least two years . |
| 14 | GORDON DURIE was sensationally cleared of feigning injury by a Football Association appeal commission last night , wiping out the stigma of being branded the game 's first official ‘ cheat ’ . |
| 15 | Instead of being handed the life sentence he so richly deserved , Waddell was released from Barlinnie the following year and gave yet another confession to the Ayr murder to the Evening News : ‘ It was me all right . ’ |
| 16 | If you think it is the wrong amount , you have a right of appeal , within three months of being told the amount to an independent Social Security Appeal Tribunal . |
| 17 | Which suggests that both bands would benefit from being afforded the time and backing needed to develop , without being under too much pressure to sign a deal . |
| 18 | But comparison with the disasters which afflicted mid fifteenth-century Spain , and most of fifteenth-century England , immediately puts the Scottish experience into context ; Scotland was undoubtedly fortunate in being spared the experience of a Henry IV of Castile or Henry VI of England . |
| 19 | to 2,501,943 at the end of December , and finally reached 5,201,919 in March 1991 before being renamed the gold cordoba on March 4 and set at 5.0726 to the US dollar . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , he suffered a further relapse and returned to the sanatorium for further treatment before being appointed the curate at St Mary 's Church , Morecambe . |
| 21 | Kerr took Lisburn Rangers to the Division II A Amateur League championship and the semi-final of the Co Antrim Shield during the 1991/92 season before being offered the job at Crewe . |
| 22 | On arrival an initial briefing was given by Ronnie Gallacher to explain details of the tufting process followed by a Q and A session , before being shown the manufacturing method |
| 23 | On being offered the choice of recantation or the stake he chose the former and , deprived of his see , lived out the rest of his short days as a prisoner in Thorney Abbey . |
| 24 | While working at Okeover , Staffordshire ( c .1745 ) , on decorative plaster-work , chimney-pieces , and picture-frames , Stanley left England suddenly in October 1746 , on being offered the post of court sculptor to Christian VI of Denmark . |
| 25 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |
| 26 | But how would the British react to being given the chance to air their views face to face with a politician ? |
| 27 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as it was meant to at one time . |
| 28 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 29 | In order to make sparing use of parliamentary time , the role of Parliament is restricted to being offered the opportunity to say ‘ yea ’ or ‘ nay ’ to ‘ proposals ’ emanating from a delegate . |
| 30 | By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code . |