Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom , a professional engineer , set up the company 5 years ago after being made redundant for the third time . |
| 2 | After being made redundant from his last job , he 's finally found work at a glass company in the town . |
| 3 | It was after being cast adrift in a longboat by the mutinous crew of Bounty that Bligh managed to make his monumental open-boat voyage with a handful of faithfuls to safety , and ultimately revenge , on the Indonesian island of Timor . |
| 4 | Carmen Lawrence became state Premier of Western Australia on Feb. 12 , after being elected unopposed to the leadership of the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) within the state . |
| 5 | I would n't want to be a defender and see him coming on with 20 minutes left after being run ragged by Ian Rush , ’ he said . |
| 6 | A WEST Lothian councillor , William Burns , resigned yesterday after being declared bankrupt at Linlithgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday . |
| 7 | Habib Bourguiba was declared President-for-Life by the National Assembly in 1985 , but was removed in November 1987 after being declared unfit for office on grounds of ill-health and senility . |
| 8 | Victoria Carrington , 23 , of Northolt , west London , a convent-educated stockbroker who attacked a mother and daughter on an Underground train after they knocked into her newspaper was fined £400 by Knightsbridge magistrates and ordered to pay £600 compensation after being found guilty of assault . |
| 9 | Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years . |
| 10 | He will be forever remembered as the player sent home in disgrace from Scotland 's disastrous World Cup campaign in Argentina after being found guilty of taking banned drugs in Scotland 's ill-fated opening game against Peru . |
| 11 | Dustman Peter Hunter was later jailed for life after being found guilty of raping and murdering the teenage daughter of an army warrant officer . |
| 12 | PAKISTAN fast bowler Aqib Javed was suspended for one match yesterday after being found guilty of dissent during the second one-day international against New Zealand in Napier . |
| 13 | TOTTENHAM striker Gordon Durie , banned for three games after being found guilty of misconduct by the Football Association , will have his appeal heard on December 16 . |
| 14 | And she was fined £1,500 after being found guilty of controlling prostitutes ' earnings . |
| 15 | Torrel James , 28 , a policeman in Port-of-Spain and a former Trinidad & Tobago Youth representative opening bowler , has been jailed for 15 years and received 20 lashes with the birch after being found guilty of the attempted murder of his girlfriend and her father in 1989 . |
| 16 | I once defended a juvenile on a charge of reckless driving , and he was banned from driving for two years after being found guilty of the most horrific driving at night without lights . |
| 17 | His brother , Gene Gotti , had been sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment on July 7 , 1989 , after being found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar drugs ring . |
| 18 | Ruhamanya , the former Economy and Finance Minister and a director of the Petrorwanda oil company , was on Dec. 14 , 1989 , sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and fined RF100,000 , after being found guilty of embezzling RF30,000,000 , and of forgery . |
| 19 | Huang Hwa , leader of the " New County Alliance " faction of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party , was sentenced on Dec. 8 to 10 years ' imprisonment after being found guilty of " preparing to commit sedition " . |
| 20 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of May 23 reported that 34 opposition politicians had recently been sentenced — some in absentia — to prison terms of up to 25 years after being found guilty of high treason . |
| 21 | Two journalists on the opposition weekly Liberté , Jacques Kacou , the editor , and Georges Koffi , author of an article attacking President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , were detained on June 5 and sentenced to three months ' imprisonment on July 23 after being found guilty of insulting the head of state . |
| 22 | On Aug. 30 five of the remaining seven fishermen were sentenced to prison terms of up to 14 months after being found guilty of " violation of freedom " . |
| 23 | Two senior police officers were sentenced to prison terms of more than 110 years each after being found guilty of charges of murder , criminal association and the forging of documents in connection with an undercover operation in the 1980s against the Basque separatist group ETA . |
| 24 | In a trial held in October 1990 , 38 members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( NUFLVN ) resistance movement were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 25 | Chen Wan-chen , founder of the pro-independence Organization for Taiwan Nation-Building , was sentenced to 46 months ' imprisonment on March 16 after being found guilty of " preparing to commit sedition " under the controversial Article 100 of the Criminal Code [ see p. 38765 for Chen 's arrest in February ] . |
| 26 | On March 24 Takeshi Kato , a former vice-Minister of Labour , was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 6,810,000 yen after being found guilty of accepting bribes from Recruit . |
| 27 | On March 20 Junzo Okudaira was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment after being found guilty of planting a car bomb which killed five people outside a US servicemen 's club in Naples in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 28 | George Marshal Naykene , editor of the Christian Chronicle , was sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty of criminal libel . |
| 29 | Huang had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1990 after being found guilty of raising funds to promote Taiwanese independence [ see p. 37917 ] . |
| 30 | George Chang , chairman of the US-based World United Formosans for Independence , was sentenced to 10 years in prison on June 8 after being found guilty of sedition and attempted murder . |