Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] being [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no excuse for being caught by a marked police vehicle — but there 's not much you can do about unmarked cars or cameras . |
| 2 | Appearance in court is feared by many policemen and women , who express a worry about being humiliated by an aggressive counsel , of becoming ‘ tongue-tied ’ , and generally of having ‘ a rough time ’ . |
| 3 | THE Football Association are to bring to an end a lucrative film contract after being embarrassed by the notorious Vinnie Jones video , writes Rob Shepherd . |
| 4 | A woman who staged an IRA bomb hoax at an army barracks after being jilted by a soldier has been jailed for four and a half months . |
| 5 | As Great Britain 's top Olympic hope , Dodson faltered in the second round in Barcelona last summer , beaten by the scales after being forced by the ABA to fight as a welterweight . |
| 6 | Following the United States invasion of Panama on Dec. 20 to remove Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega from power [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , Noriega on Jan. 3 voluntarily left the papal nunciature , where he had sought refuge , and gave himself up to the US authorities after being persuaded by the papal nuncio , Mgr José Sebastián Laboa , that asylum in a third country was not a viable option . |
| 7 | three years ago , they actually announced first round dates which would have allowed for such a break and only changed their mind after being petitioned by a group of players who had been persuaded by ATP to say they were unhappy to play immediately after the Open . |
| 8 | Angela Chew , 43 , from Leighton Buzzard , Bedfordshire , and her sons Rowan , eight , and Simon , one , were trapped in the burning Citroen after being hit by a lorry whose brakes had failed on the M4 interchange in Pontardulais , South Wales . |
| 9 | ‘ Young men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than women and the risks of being raped by a stranger are very small indeed ( approximately one in 25,000 ) but most women would put the risk at a lot higher . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) The said duty is owed if the landlord knows ( whether as the result of being notified by the tenant or otherwise ) or if he ought in all the circumstances to have known of the relevant defect . |
| 11 | Nobody knew how much they burrowed into one 's past , and this ignorance coupled with a fear of being rejected by the Legion was enough to make most people tell the truth . |
| 12 | In Russia , people have had to build mikvas secretly , some of them have built a hidden one t-n their home , and have had to live constantly with the fear of being discovered by the KGB who would imprison them because of it . |
| 13 | Then once having disposed of the bogus Robert Gravier , the real Mr G. could live on his swindled millions without fear of being chased by the law or his many creditors . |
| 14 | At bottom , this is the grip which the story of Jonah and the whale still has on us : fear of being devoured by a large creature , fear of being chomped , slurped , gargled , washed down with a draught of salt water and a school of anchovies as a chaser ; fear of being blinded , darkened , suffocated , drowned , hooded with blubber ; fear of sensory deprivation which we know drives people mad ; fear of being dead . |
| 15 | Maybe it 's just a fear of being overtaken by a woman . ’ |
| 16 | We have to somehow recognise and then become free of that overwhelming fear of being engulfed by the demands and powerful feelings in some clients and their families . |
| 17 | The Scottish people whom I meet who work in the shipyards at Yarrow take pride in building ships for the Royal Navy whose orders would presumably be lost to them if they had the pleasure of being represented by an SNP policy . |
| 18 | The Tigercat was one of the Sis-Q firebombing aircraft before being acquired by the Museum . |
| 19 | He and his friends would deliberately allow the quicksand to take them up to their knees before being extricated by the other members of the gang . |
| 20 | She lay there awash for almost eight months before being salvaged by the Leith Towage & Salvage Co . |
| 21 | This gives rise to the possibility that such an investigation could be used by the union as a stalling facility to prevent the applicant from being assisted by the Commissioner . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) A renewed licence shall come into effect on being renewed by a licensing board . |
| 23 | ( 1 ) A new licence shall come into effect on being granted by a licensing board , except that where there were objections at the hearing the licence shall not come into effect until : ( a ) the time within which an appeal may be made has elapsed , or : ( b ) where an appeal has been lodged , the appeal has been abandoned or determined in favour of the applicant for the licence . |
| 24 | They were trying to sneak up and gain entry without being seen by the shapechanger . |
| 25 | They dived overboard as the 13,000-ton Royal Pacific went down within 15 minutes of being hit by a large trawler . |
| 26 | Within minutes of being released by the police , these youngsters were back in an amusement arcade . |
| 27 | Although one consequence of their detached status was that the Commissioners tended to be remote from the day to day process of policy formulation in the higher echelons of the Home Office , they had the advantage of being perceived by the Prison Service as providing a collective leadership in which the professional element in the service could and did play a significant part . |
| 28 | A limited liability company therefore allows its members the privilege of being shielded by the ‘ corporate veil ’ from unlimited liability for company debts . |
| 29 | Cleo marched up to the butler 's door , which was slightly more grandiose than the servants ' and tradesmen 's entrances situated to either side , as it boasted the added splendour of being reached by a flight of steps . |
| 30 | After a youthful marriage ended tragically with the death of his wife and two children , the grief-stricken Kalmu began to behave bizarrely and showed signs of being possessed by a powerful local deity . |