Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the end of May 1989 a new supreme representative body , the 2,250-member Congress of People 's Deputies , held its inaugural session after being elected in three rounds of voting during the previous two months . |
| 32 | Editor , — After being transferred to human insulin a number of patients have complained that they do not recognise hypoglycaemia as clearly as they used to with animal insulin . |
| 33 | He was flown here after being injured by armed robbers . |
| 34 | The doors to the kitchens seemed to be the originals , stripped and revarnished and rehung after being fitted with modern Yale locks . |
| 35 | The doors , after being fitted in this gauge , were handed over to the coach finishers , who fitted the casing boards , either of walnut or mahogany . |
| 36 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 37 | Almost a thousand haemophiliacs are fighting for compensation after being treated with imported blood products . |
| 38 | He was released from Guy 's Hospital yesterday afternoon after being treated for severe lacerations to his wrists and arms . |
| 39 | The 25-year-old man was arrested after being named by tribal elders , shocked by the brutal killings at the Nine Mile Reef beauty spot 12 days ago . |
| 40 | SMOOTH TV frontman Frank Bough lost his cool yesterday after being named in kinky sex allegations splashed across a Sunday newspaper — for the second time in his career . |
| 41 | ‘ After being approached by several manufacturing companies it became obvious that the manufacturing aspect to our business could be handled by others , leaving us free to concentrate on our core business the design , specification and installation side . ’ |
| 42 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 43 | And he has now made it to the finals of our fun competition to find the Most Miserable Man on Merseyside after being nominated by step-daughter Christine Johnson and wife , Margaret . |
| 44 | Brian Mounsey , 24 , who has lived in Thailand for the past three years , was arrested after being found with two kilos of heroin . |
| 45 | Subjects came up with well-organized fantasy sequences after being roused from some periods with high levels of EEG alpha and saccadic eye movements consistent with relaxed wakefulness . |
| 46 | Dai Walter Jones ( no relation ) was given a job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ after being hospitalized for five years with a serious illness and with little prospect of finding employment elsewhere as he was approaching retirement age . |
| 47 | On that cruise the ship 's drilling bit , after being lowered through 3 km of water , bored through a thin veneer of sediments and 600 m into the underlying basalts ; it had successfully penetrated the ocean crust for the first time . |
| 48 | Thousands of pensioners will probably vote No , after being bombarded with groundless warnings of cuts in their high pensions if the treaty survives . |
| 49 | For decades after their War of Independence , the Israelis claimed that most of the Arab Palestinians had left of their own free will after being urged by Arab radio stations to leave their homes and take sanctuary in neighbouring states until the Arab armies had conquered the upstart new Israeli nation . |
| 50 | It hit Hawaii fifteen hours later , wrecking boats and beaches , ruining the Waikiki tourist trade ; and twenty-four hours after being triggered in southern Chile , it hit Japan , 10,000 miles north . |
| 51 | Humans become unconscious after being submerged for 3 hours in water at 15°C ( 60°F ) . |
| 52 | K. Doraiswamy , executive director of the Indian Oil Corporation , was freed on Aug. 20 after being held for 55 days by the Ikhwan-ul-Muslameen group . |
| 53 | A WOMAN escaped unharmed with her 11-month-old son yesterday after being held for 45 minutes by a knife-wielding kidnapper . |
| 54 | AN ELDERLY woman died after being left for 11 hours on a hospital trolley , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 55 | Majority shareholder Bill Kenyon , who quit as chairman after being targeted by angry fans , has sold the group his controlling interest . |
| 56 | Zomax , Distalgesic and Opren ( this issue , p 729 ) came under fire after being linked with unacceptable side effects . |
| 57 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 58 | A REAL life My Little Pony has moved into an Essex animal park after being rescued from appalling conditions and almost certain death . |
| 59 | In the Descent of Man , published in eighteen seventy one , he says some intelligent actions , as when birds on oceanic islands first learn to avoid man , after being performed during many generations , become converted into instincts and are inherited . |
| 60 | A MAN was fighting for his life last night after being carried for 500 yards on the bonnet of a hit-and-run car . |