Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , care should be taken that they do not lose their exceptional hardiness and thriftiness in pursuit of greater yields , and also that they do not become extinct through being crossed with Friesians . |
| 2 | I ought therefore to be grateful for being disorientated by the unfamiliar and the chance to focus the innocent eye . |
| 3 | Ivy was pleased : ‘ I am grateful for being brought before the public , ’ she wrote . |
| 4 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 5 | Scottish scallops , worth about £7,000 and due for export to Spain , have been buried alive after being found to be contaminated with heavy metals . |
| 6 | ‘ It is a miracle they are still alive after being thrown into the air , ’ he said . |
| 7 | RIO DE JANEIRO ( AP ) — Luis Sales , head of a Brazilian advertising agency , was freed unharmed after being held by kidnappers for two months . |
| 8 | Their father was jailed in 1986 after being convicted of serious sexual crimes against his children . |
| 9 | Their father was jailed in 1986 after being convicted of serious sexual crimes against his children . |
| 10 | He had fled the Philippines in early 1986 after being overthrown by Aquino 's supporters . |
| 11 | It was flawless , completely unbruised for being held in that strong , long-fingered hand . |
| 12 | True beliefs are n't generally better than false ones in any moral sense : there is usually nothing morally wrong about being mistaken in one 's beliefs about matters of fact . |
| 13 | Two survivors — both women — were cut free after being trapped for 20 minutes in the wreckage . |
| 14 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 15 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 16 | A like fate awaits the few surviving soldiers , including Rhodes , who is torn in half after being shot by Bub ( Howard Sherman ) , Dr Logan 's only ‘ success ‘ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This despite being played in a slightly deeper holding role . |
| 19 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 20 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 21 | On the smaller Indonesian islands , where people are afraid of being killed by wild pigs , they have prefixed the names of biting flies and stinging plants with babi , meaning pig . |
| 22 | I was afraid of being suspected of the murder , I suppose . ’ |
| 23 | They are addressed as individuals and families and , furthermore , as frightened individuals and families , afraid of being crushed by , say , a socialist bureaucracy or large masses of immigrants . |
| 24 | The detached , amused part of Phoebe sometimes thought that her main feeling at these parties was a wish that she , and everyone else too , would dare to improve the quality of the wine , but they were all too self-consciously afraid of being mistaken for Yuppies , despite the fact they were mostly a little too old and slightly too poor . |
| 25 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 26 | Yes , but I was quite happy to feel like that , precisely because I was afraid of being influenced by my roots . |
| 27 | For six years Rita has lived the knife-edge existence of an illegal immigrant : invisible to the social services and institutions that citizens and landed immigrants can count on ; and constantly afraid of being discovered by immigration officials and deported . |
| 28 | They hurried across the plateau , afraid of being caught on the forest path after dark , glad that the wind was behind them , billowing out their skirts and propelling them forward on legs that ran involuntarily . |
| 29 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 30 | For example , if you are economically dependent upon your partner , or afraid of being left for someone else , then safer sex will be more difficult for you to raise . |