Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A MENTALLY handicapped patient choked to death after being tied to a toilet pipe while nurses went to lunch , an inquiry heard yesterday . |
| 3 | Sgt Forth died of his injuries after being called to a disturbance at a house in Gateshead , 12 days ago . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He then entered himself at Lincoln 's Inn , and , after being called to the bar in 1789 , began to practise on the northern circuit . |
| 6 | The solution is a seat fitting kit a specially made safety belt which is fixed to the seat after being bolted to the car body . |
| 7 | A shopkeeper is in hospital after being clubbed to the ground with a baseball bat . |
| 8 | He made few friends ; he joined few clubs or societies , and after being elected to the college debating society was asked to resign because he never spoke ; he did not even spend much money . |
| 9 | About 40 people have been treated for eye and skin irritation , breathing problems and nausea after being exposed to the spill . |
| 10 | Another five were said to be ‘ very poorly ’ after being transferred to a hospital specialising in infectious diseases . |
| 11 | This autonomy is jealously defended by neighbourhood policemen in Easton , who see it as an essential part of their job , as one was ruefully reminded after being transferred to the Traffic Branch . |
| 12 | Bristol referee Bob Hamer was rescued by Exeter player Ronnie Jepson after being knocked to the ground by angry fans following a last-minute penalty award in the 1–1 draw against Port Vale . |
| 13 | He was educated at Babbacombe School , Torquay , which he left at fourteen to join the office of George Bridgeman , an architect in Torquay , to whom he returned after being apprenticed to a quantity surveyor in London . |
| 14 | City were looking to make the effort for a promotion spot when entertaining a side from the bottom half of the table , after being held to a draw last week . |
| 15 | I witnessed the entire episode during injury time and Bassett showed commendable restraint after being subjected to a torrent of personal abuse by Chelsea 's yob element . |
| 16 | After being welcomed to the summit of an amazingly red Red Pike by the rain , we were happy to descend to Scarth Gap . |
| 17 | After being returned to the USA he was convicted of drug trafficking , money laundering , and racketeering charges in April 1992 [ see p. 38857 ] , and sentenced to 40 years ' imprisonment . |
| 18 | After being degraded to the level of a vegetable market , the Piece Hall was rightly recognized as an architectural and industrial monument that it was important to preserve , and part of it now houses the town 's Textile Museum , which is open throughout the year . |
| 19 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 20 | After being shown to a seat on the balcony , she spent a fascinated five minutes watching three couples on the sunken dance floor . |
| 21 | ‘ It is easy to understand , although some austere persons elaborately refuse to understand , why these crowds in the industrial towns pay shillings they can badly afford to see twenty-two professionals kick a ball about , ’ JB Priestley wrote after being taken to a local derby march between Nottingham Forest and Notts County . |
| 22 | Mrs Sharon Smith gave birth to her first baby , a son named Oliver , 28 hours after being admitted to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester in June . |
| 23 | After being sold to a Leeds scrapyard in about 1920 the crane became derelict until 1988 when it was salvaged and restored by Dorothea Restoration Engineers . |
| 24 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 25 | After being driven to the bank , in the centre Toulon , in southern France , he was made to open the door . |
| 26 | Capital values at least have the benefit of being related to a market , although I am sure that many owners will seek to convince their bank managers that their property should be in band H while they seek to convince the rating authorities that their property should really be in band F. |
| 27 | The report states that those who have lived on state pensions , income support or low pay , are most likely to live in the most energy-inefficient homes which are incapable of being heated to a minimum comfort standard . |
| 28 | According to Gavron 's survey of ninety-six urban housewives , the feeling of being tied to the house.and isolated from meaningful social contacts is a common one for both working-class and middle-class women . |
| 29 | Instead of being treated to the confrontation between the great lion Aslan and the forces of hell , we sat and watched a game of cat and mouse . |
| 30 | Since the 1981 Education Act ( see Chapter 4 ) came into force in 1983 , children assessed as having special educational needs are given an individual ‘ statement ’ of these needs instead of being assigned to a category of handicap ( see Chapter 3 , 1978 Warnock ) . |