Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one half of the train had been filled to bursting point it would ‘ draw up ’ … |
| 2 | Yet , on the one hand this contradiction has been hidden by privileging Gregory 's comments and neglecting the importance of the Epistulae Austrasiacae and the writings of Venantius Fortunatus ; on the other , it has been explained by the apparent lack of educational opportunities available to Gregory in the households of Nicetius and Avitus . |
| 3 | A statement issued by the politburo of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) on April 5 stated that the organization 's deputy secretary-general , Yassir Abd Rabbuh , had been dismissed after creating a breakaway faction in mid-January . |
| 4 | This argument reflects the official view disseminated after the war had begun again that Edward had been coerced into accepting the treaty while he was under the tutelage of Mortimer and Isabella and that therefore he could not be bound by it . |
| 5 | However , in April 1988 Teo , along with eight other original " conspirators " , issued a public statement claiming that they had been coerced into making their televised confessions [ see p. 36353 ] . |
| 6 | Several of them showed signs of injury , leading to claims in the US and the UK that they had been coerced into making their statements . |
| 7 | The dictator ( to look at one of Keith Graham 's examples ) who allowed everyone to decide for themselves what they wanted and then told them what they must do , is violating their autonomy not because their wants and needs are not realised in action , but because they have been coerced into doing something they do not want . |
| 8 | It is surely true that occasionally interest is awakened only after individuals have been coerced into doing something . |
| 9 | They say he 's been stopped from dispensing NHS prescriptions . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Certainly , he had been stopped from minting his own coins . |
| 12 | Aid trucks have been stopped from reaching Muslim areas there for a month by the Bosnian Croats who control the roads ; 1.3m people have been cut off from aid . |
| 13 | Things like false alarm calls and so on , have been through the courts and we 've been stopped from doing that . |
| 14 | But they have learned far more about morality this way than they would have done if they had been stopped from making their threats . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 16 | I knew about the bad weather , and I had learned later that , on account of this , the plane had been recalled without accomplishing its mission . |
| 17 | The situation today is that many sixteen to eighteen year olds , who were unable to get a training place , are disbarred from getting income support , and the situation today is that this country has the lowest level of skilled workers in the European Community . |
| 18 | Foreign Affairs Minister Inonga Lokonga L'Omé died on June 19 in South Africa , where he had been flown after suffering a stroke . |
| 19 | The remainder are calculated by calibrating the theoretical model such that the parameters are consistent with equilibrium in the market in a given period . |
| 20 | The net present values are calculated by discounting streams of future cash flow . |
| 21 | Transition probabilities p(1) to p(4) in Table 6.2 are calculated by counting the number of times the business executive stayed in city a and subsequently ( i ) stayed the next day in city a , ( ii ) moved to city b , ( iii ) moved to city c , ( iv ) moved to city d . |
| 22 | Intelligent quotient ( IQ ) ratings are calculated by dividing a child 's mental age by his or her chronological age . |
| 23 | Attendance rates are calculated by dividing the number of openings in the school register by the number of pupils present . |
| 24 | Attendance rates are calculated by dividing the number of openings in the school register by the number of pupils present . |
| 25 | Meanstested benefit payments are calculated by adding together the needs and resources of a family . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , all inductivists would claim that in so far as scientific theories can be justified , they are justified by supporting them inductively on the basis of some more-or-less secure basis provided by experience . |
| 27 | At the wicket he is a Roman general , unquestioning of his own ability to defeat the barbarians ; yet because the pride and haughtiness are justified by having repeatedly proved himself to be the best , one can not resent them , especially since he usually leaves them on the field of combat . |
| 28 | At the stepping rates considered in this Chapter we are justified in regarding the rotor velocity as constant ; the system inertia is sufficient to maintain a steady speed , even if the motor torque varies slightly during each step . |
| 29 | Many headhunters themselves accept that some candidates are justified in considering that they have had a raw deal . |
| 30 | As a result , our eyesight is so well developed that few animals possess comparable vision , and we are justified in considering it our supersense . |