Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Information collected within operational systems , such as payroll , can feed into decision support systems such as are provided by a personnel data base , which in turn can be summarised for use in planning and modelling systems .
2 The next best thing is to read , with real care and attention , detailed accounts of modern fieldwork such as are provided by the two Hugh-Jones volumes .
3 Some of these can be expressed as a distance-decay function and indeed costs of migration may largely be a matter of distance as in the case of outmigration from island economies such as are found in the Caribbean or Oceania ; others are political and virtually insurmountable , such as national frontiers .
4 In high fertility societies such as are found in the Africa region , the modification of these goals would be a first step in efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality .
5 Occasionally , however a border is absent , as at Silchester , in a room of building XIX ; in room 8 , Colliton Park , Dorchester ; and in a house " north of the Newport Road " , Caerwent.Alternatively , it can be of very large blocks , such as are found around a mosaic at Whittington Court , Glos .
6 This is rather like the American system of presidential elections except that in the American system , the people who are voted for are tied to a particular candidate , so it 's really just erm a convoluted way of having a direct system rather than a genuinely indirect system here .
7 The expansion slots , SIMM slots and cache RAM sockets take up most of the space ; the gaps in between are filled with a smattering of large VLSI chips .
8 I am obliged to smell what he smells , the baby powder , the smell of his nails before the fire spits them out-to be caught in the dish and then agonizingly reapplied to his thrilled fingertips .
9 The 26-year-old victim was tied up , gagged and sexually assaulted in her home after being ambushed by the pair , who were hiding behind dustbins .
10 After being instructed on the circuit , racing lines , warning flags , etc , the condemned men were given a hearty meal .
11 Her predecessor , William Vander Zalm , had resigned after being criticized by the provincial conflict-of-interest commissioner for his role in the sale of his family-owned amusement park , Fantasy Gardens , to a Taiwanese investor .
12 The person responsible for the running of the 160-year-old bank , Sergeant-at-Arms Jack Russ , had resigned on March 12 after being criticized in the Ethics Committee 's report for the manner in which he had administered the bank .
13 Souness faces another touchline ban after being banished from the Selhurst Park dug-out by referee Roger Dilkes for allegedly swearing at a linesman during Liverpool 's 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace on Tuesday night .
14 River police and firemen were called to the scene after being alerted by a passing cyclist and found the unnamed man on the rocks .
15 After being cheered over the finishing line they accepted blankets and drinks from their supporters , then wandered about with bemused expressions on their faces .
16 A MENTALLY handicapped patient choked to death after being tied to a toilet pipe while nurses went to lunch , an inquiry heard yesterday .
17 Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 .
18 Sgt Forth died of his injuries after being called to a disturbance at a house in Gateshead , 12 days ago .
19 Peter Barron , 19 , of Lancefield Avenue , Newcastle , was remanded in custody for five days by city magistrates yesterday charged with attempting to murder PC Keith Richardson , who was stabbed after being called to a house burglary .
20 He then entered himself at Lincoln 's Inn , and , after being called to the bar in 1789 , began to practise on the northern circuit .
21 Ron and Pat Woolley , of Rhyl , recently took a huge lorry-load of medical supplies , equipment and clothes to the Klaipicla Children 's Hospital in Lithuania after being shocked by the conditions they found there during a previous visit .
22 Pig horror : New Zealand farmer Kenneth Johnson bled to death after being gored in the groin by one of his pigs while feeding them in a paddock on his small farm at Halkett in the South Island province of Canterbury .
23 The five heavies pounced on Dosanjh , 21 , as he walked through the court lobby after being bailed on an unrelated theft charge .
24 HERO policewoman Leslie Harrison , fighting back from the brink of death after being stabbed with a screwdriver , vowed from her hospital bed yesterday : ‘ I love the job .
25 Emma Brodie died in Frenchgate shopping centre in Doncaster after being stabbed through the heart with a carving knife by Carol Barratt , 24 , who had attacked another child in the same place weeks earlier .
26 Leslie lost two pints of blood after being stabbed through the heart while trying to arrest a suspected burglar .
27 A man who nearly died after being stabbed in an unprovoked attack , has returned home from hospital .
28 THE motorway murder victim Marie Wilks used her Red Cross training to staunch the flow of blood from her jugular vein after being stabbed in the neck , a court was told yesterday .
29 Mr Jowett needed two hours of delicate micro-surgery after being stabbed in the groin and chest when he tackled a masked intruder at his home on Nov 27 .
30 He needed micro-surgery after being stabbed in the groin and chest when he tackled a masked intruder .
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