Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , here on Earth , astronomers at the Anglo-Australian Observatory at Siding Spring in New South Wales have evolved a new system that can produce astonishing infrared views such as are shown on these pages . |
| 2 | After being instructed on the circuit , racing lines , warning flags , etc , the condemned men were given a hearty meal . |
| 3 | Jim Milligan and Neil Roderick also made it , both making birdie at the first play-off hole , after being tied on 149 , to make the final 64 . |
| 4 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 5 | The five heavies pounced on Dosanjh , 21 , as he walked through the court lobby after being bailed on an unrelated theft charge . |
| 6 | After being recorded on Film they will be returned . |
| 7 | Azem Vlasi , the former leader of the League of Communists in Kosovo , was released from custody on April 24 , together with 13 other persons , after being acquitted on charges of instigating counter-revolutionary demonstrations in the province . |
| 8 | Isidro Caballero , a 33-year-old teacher , ‘ disappeared ’ after being detained on 7 February 1989 by an army patrol . |
| 9 | After being hit on the head with a bottle , Waller lashed out at Terry Malone , 24 , with a chisel . |
| 10 | New Zealand saved the follow-on after Nancy Williams defied doctor 's orders and resumed batting after being hit on the head by a fielder 's return . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , later in the same year , some months after being hit on the head by a piece of falling masonry , Geoffrey of Vigeois died , and without his chronicle to guide us we are hopelessly ignorant of events in this part of the world . |
| 12 | The four-part series includes a king crowned late in life , a PM who took over in mid-term and a princess snubbed after being pictured on holiday with another man . |
| 13 | A TEENAGE rapist who committed a catalogue of sex and dishonesty offences after being freed on bail by magistrates was jailed for 11 years by two different Old Bailey judges yesterday . |
| 14 | Sir Terence Lewis , 63 , the former police commissioner of Queensland , was sentenced to 14 years ' imprisonment on Aug. 5 , after being convicted on 15 counts of corruption . |
| 15 | Leopold Gratz , ( Socialist ) Foreign Minister in 1984-86 , was fined 450,000 schillings ( approximately US$40,000 ) after being convicted on Oct. 5 of bearing false witness in connection with the Lucona affair [ for details see pp. 38110 ; 38738 ] ; he had denied covering up evidence on the involvement of his friend Udo Proksch in the scandal , and announced that he would appeal . |
| 16 | Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] . |
| 17 | And hours after being elected on a mandate of change , Clinton plunged straight into the hard work of weaving the magic he has been promising his people . |
| 18 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 19 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding rallied after being headed on the flat by Rio Haina in that two-and-three-quarter-mile event , and judged on that game performance , should not be unduly troubled by today 's extra two furlongs . |
| 20 | After being stranded on 99 for 25 minutes , he finally lost both patience and nerve and became the fourth player in the match to be dismissed in sight of a century as he charged down the pitch . |
| 21 | A young soldier , who almost died after being impaled on a fence post in an accident , has been descibing how he survived . |
| 22 | George Heron , 23 , had to have four stitches after being slashed on the forehead by an inmate in Durham jail . |
| 23 | A post-mortem revealed it had bled to death after being slashed on the udder with a sharp instrument , severing a main artery . |
| 24 | Islands around the world have often hosted odd dwarf forms of mainland creatures : pony-sized elephants once lived on Malta ; and it was reported by Adrian Lester of Cambridge University , in a recent Nature article , that red deer from the last Ice Age evolved into a dwarf form in less than 6000 years after being marooned on the island of Jersey . |
| 25 | The 20-year-old Clark is shaping up nicely after being hailed on Tyneside as ‘ the new Paul Gascoigne ’ . |
| 26 | Marine fishkeeper Ian Durnall , from Wolverhampton , was flown to hospital after being stung on the finger by his pet Lionfish reports the Daily Mirror . |
| 27 | The extent of the Guinness world conquest can be imagined from a letter sent home to Ireland by an Enniskillen Dragoon recovering in Belgium after being wounded on the battlefield of Waterloo in 1815 . |
| 28 | Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm . |
| 29 | In the North , Huddersfield car salesman Mohammed Sadiq is seriously ill after being set on fire in abrutal attack . |
| 30 | An inquest has been hearing how a six-month old baby girl died from a fractured skull after being dropped on her head at playschool . |