Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | LINFORD CHRISTIE raises his arms in a triumphant salute after being crowned the fastest man on earth . |
| 2 | A £5-A-RACE flagman was today facing the prospect of disciplinary action over the Grand National fiasco after being made the scapegoat in the official inquiry report . |
| 3 | Sportsmen who believe themselves to be blessed with natural advantages , after being told so by others , become depressed by the lack of success of the magnitude they had come to expect after being fed the natural ability line . |
| 4 | I was dragged out of bed half asleep after being kidnapped the night before . |
| 5 | After being sentenced the sex-slave image remains , but she has now become a wronged mother ( Daily Mail ) or mum ( Sun ) . |
| 6 | With punters across the country totally baffled , the field regrouped and , after being given the go-ahead by course officials after an eight minute break , started again , this time jumping the offending obstacle . |
| 7 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 8 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 9 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
| 10 | LITTLE Laura Davies can not wait to start school after being given the all-clear to travel home following her double transplant operation in America five months ago . |
| 11 | Pawar was eventually sworn in as Defence Minister on June 26 after being replaced the previous day as Chief Minister of Maharashtra by Sudhakarrao Naik . |
| 12 | GARY DRAKE , the former British junior hardcourt champion , won a £15,000 car after being nominated the best player in the finals of the Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy Tournament . |
| 13 | Calm before the storm ? — Ray Hankin yesterday after being handed the ‘ mountainous ’ task of keeping Darlington 's struggling football club in the Third Division . |
| 14 | After being shown the red card as the players walked off he gave a TV interview allegedly slating some European referees , and now faces a possible ban from the game . |
| 15 | Mason needed an X-ray on his right hand and repairs around both eyes after being taken the full distance by Wills on Wednesday night , but his heart and ambition remain undamaged . |
| 16 | Mason needed an X-ray on his right hand and repairs around both eyes after being taken the full distance by Wills on Wednesday night , but his heart and ambition remain undamaged . |
| 17 | CEREDIGION and Pembroke North MP Cynog Dafis has been given a Greenhouse award by Green Magazine after being voted the best newcomer to Parliament . |
| 18 | As consolation , he accepted a £1,000 cheque and the additional prize of being named the Institute 's top trainee . |
| 19 | In fact , its success was such that it was given the ‘ unique honour ’ of being made the secretariat to the Intergroup on Animal Welfare — an all-party committee which discusses welfare issues . |
| 20 | ‘ Far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves … no slave is a slave to the same lengths and in so full a sense of the word as a wife is [ for her husband ] can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being , that of being made the instrument of an animal function contrary to her inclinations . ’ |
| 21 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 22 | Suppositions built on postcards and photographs might be as ill-founded as his short-lived suspicions of being followed the night before . |
| 23 | Instead , Lewis may be left with the consolation prize of being crowned the WBC champion as the heavyweight division falls apart . |
| 24 | Above all , you need to take advantage of being given the chance to put your own point of view . |
| 25 | Julius Caesar is to some extent a case apart , being not only one of his most successful operas when first performed in 1724 , but also the most frequently revived this century , recently even having the dubious distinction of being given the ‘ Peter Sellars ’ treatment on television . |
| 26 | Within minutes of being given the treatment his walking was much improved , and the following day he was walking around without any sticks and was also able to climb up and down stairs unaided — a thing he had been unable to do for at least two years . |
| 27 | Laboratory mice died within minutes of being fed the shellfish . |
| 28 | GORDON DURIE was sensationally cleared of feigning injury by a Football Association appeal commission last night , wiping out the stigma of being branded the game 's first official ‘ cheat ’ . |
| 29 | In his early days at Highbury he was painfully aware of being labelled the first £10,000 footballer . |
| 30 | Within weeks of being handed the Northern Ireland portfolio by Neil Kinnock in the summer of 1987 , McNamara was telling a radio interviewer : |