Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March this year , Bishop Peter Ball resigned after being cautioned for gross indecency and is now retired on a church pension . |
| 2 | A EURO information bus arrives at Chester Castle car park today after being based for two days in Ellesmere Port . |
| 3 | Whether they will feel as enthusiastic after being deluged for three weeks with the results of the £30m-plus likely to be spent by the main parties is more questionable . |
| 4 | The emphasis on map and compass skills comes in the wake of a near disaster last August when a group of 14 children and their young leader were airlifted to safety after being lost for two days east of Dalwhinnie in the Highlands . |
| 5 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 6 | He was released from Guy 's Hospital yesterday afternoon after being treated for severe lacerations to his wrists and arms . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Humans become unconscious after being submerged for 3 hours in water at 15°C ( 60°F ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A WOMAN escaped unharmed with her 11-month-old son yesterday after being held for 45 minutes by a knife-wielding kidnapper . |
| 11 | AN ELDERLY woman died after being left for 11 hours on a hospital trolley , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 12 | A MAN was fighting for his life last night after being carried for 500 yards on the bonnet of a hit-and-run car . |
| 13 | A CAMERAMAN was plucked to safety yesterday after being trapped for two days inside an active volcano . |
| 14 | THREE 14-year-old Scouts were found yesterday after being trapped for 18 hours in torrential rain on a Lake District mountain . |
| 15 | Two survivors — both women — were cut free after being trapped for 20 minutes in the wreckage . |
| 16 | MARK JONES , Hull 's Welsh rugby league international forward , will miss the match against France in Perpignan on Sunday week after being suspended for six matches by the League disciplinary committee last night . |
| 17 | Wigan prop Kelvin Skerrett will miss the tie after being banned for five matches last night while Hull second row Steve McNamara received a four-match suspension . |
| 18 | However , an aid convoy and a French field hospital trying to reach Srebrenica remained blocked yesterday while trucks intended for the Muslim town of Zepa were ordered to return to Belgrade by the UN after being stalled for six days . |
| 19 | We did have hopes of being re-equipped for this Tripoli show , ’ — by coincidence he was writing on the very day Tripoli fell — ‘ but they did n't materialise , so we shall have to seek the bubble reputation elsewhere . |
| 20 | Possibly , then , the orang-utan has been excluded from the ground through competition with man , and has become arboreal , perhaps also as a result of being hunted for 30000 years by its competitor . |
| 21 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 22 | Then , instead of being played for visual comedy , as when the stewardess in 2001 walks through a half circle to exit upside down , still carrying her tray unspilt ( done by imperceptibly turning the camera 180° in the opposite direction as she walks in a treadmill ) , it 's a drama with wry comedy overtones as the nervous Curnow is supported by his braver Soviet oppo , Brailovsky ( Elya Baskin ) — a sequence largely performed by the actors themselves on wires . |
| 23 | These ‘ cairns ’ , as they are called , can reach enormous proportions , those on the tops of hills being capable in some instances of being seen for many miles . |
| 24 | To meet this need , high-power video lights have been developed from earlier photographic types which are capable of being run for long periods at full power . |
| 25 | This saving does not have the character of savings ‘ in general ’ , that of being saved for future consumption , but is saved by capitalists . |
| 26 | Peter Grimes is so famous it runs the risk of being taken for some sort of operatic norm . |
| 27 | Polar plants must be capable of being frozen for several months each year , and to undergo repeated freeze-thaw cycles throughout the growing season , even at the height of summer . |
| 28 | Ten years ago , they did n't take seriously the risk of being sued for passive smoking . |
| 29 | Agassi 's promotion despite being sidelined for eight weeks with tendonitis of the right wrist was expected with the Wimbledon seeding committee keen to officially acknowledge their reigning champion . |
| 30 | Despite being scheduled for late September , it 's still delayed as the label rushes to press enough copies to send it soaring up the charts on the heels of MUDHONEY 's pre-posthumous release . |