Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hammers striker cursed the official after being called off-side seven minutes from time . |
| 2 | Allen Wood explains that this is because a fellow amateur had ended up in trouble after being written up last year in the New York Times . |
| 3 | August 24 — Police hit out at the IRA for ‘ inadequate warning ’ after being given just eight minutes to clear the area at Ormeau Road . |
| 4 | A couple who ran a social club for three years are taking legal action after being given just two hours ' notice to leave their jobs and home . |
| 5 | After being found not guilty , a member of the jury called Mrs Aimsley offered Imamu the chance to live with her and her family in Brooklyn . |
| 6 | In the South-west , many roads were impassable after being swamped under five feet of water as an inch of rain fell in an hour . |
| 7 | The PAN disputed the results after being awarded only three of the 20 seats in the Sinaloa Chamber of Deputies , and accused electoral officials of failing to recognize the victory of its candidate for mayor in Mazatlán . |
| 8 | The former England midfielder needed hospital treatment after being bitten earlier this week during a United training session . |
| 9 | While the shareholders in Manchester 's Armitage Centre , home of the Giants basketball team , were voicing their suspicions , Wednesday manager Trevor Francis was voicing his anger at United 's persistence after being told categorically last week that Hirst was not for sale . |
| 10 | Jeremy Smith , 29 , will spend New Year behind bars after being arrested just 38 days after his release from a six-month prison sentence for a similar offence . |
| 11 | ‘ It is preferable to the alternative of being locked up twenty-three hours out of twenty-four , ’ Merrick echoed . |
| 12 | People felt cheated : they were encouraged to use locally available plants for many common complaints instead of being given more expensive , and therefore more desirable , pharmaceutical drugs . |
| 13 | Last year , my waiting room was full of cats and dogs with diarrhoea as a result of being fed too many ‘ treats ’ . |
| 14 | The base , a tent camp which is operated by Adventure Network International , is in the process of being run down ready to close down for the Antarctic winter . |
| 15 | And while she knew she should request to be put down , she was enjoying the feel of being held too much to utter the words . |
| 16 | It is this knowledge , coupled with the fear of being considered too unfit to undergo such a traumatic operation , that makes open heart surgery such an ordeal , say members . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) If you are still unfit for work after this period of being paid either Statutory Sick Pay or Sickness Benefit you will transfer to Invalidity Benefit which will be paid for as long as you remain unfit for work . |
| 18 | Yes I do find that there 's a general thread , an an an and and one would expect that , what I 'm what I 'm guarding against is taking too much notice of precise quotes from from from P P G thirteen . |
| 19 | The small living-room she took him into was made even smaller by the amount of stuff she had in there . |
| 20 | Speak up loud , you 've got ta be speak up loud and clear . |
| 21 | So it 's got to put up it 's got ta be put up eight per cent , I can tell you that . |
| 22 | Yeah , but you 've still got ta be signed off sick . |
| 23 | Only the nearness of the Frolic had saved her from being turned out that disastrous night . |
| 24 | Competent limestones in the allochthonous Devonian and Carboniferous section can be expected to have been fractured extensively where they were distorted in being forced up tectonic ramps . |
| 25 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 26 | In her last public statement , issued through a publicity agent , Mrs Helmsley described her final evening at home as ‘ lying in bed , cuddling and necking ’ with her husband , Mr Harry Helmsley , 83 , the property magnate who owns the Empire State Building and who was also charged with tax evasion before being deemed too frail to stand trial . |
| 27 | Russell ( 1986 ) prefers a model in which mineralising fluids were generated by Carboniferous seawater penetrating , and reacting with , the underlying Caledonian basement to increasing depths ( up to 10 km ) under a normal geothermal gradient during basin extension before being discharged up listric faults . |
| 28 | The answer to this question needs to be couched as much in curriculum terms as in assessment terms . |
| 29 | Accepting that politically it would be unrealistic to expect the National Curriculum to be couched in other than conventional terms , ie subjects , I questioned the absence of a rationale . |
| 30 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |