Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was last seen shortly after being excavated 150 years ago . |
| 2 | A YOUNG policewoman was fighting for life early today after being stabbed three times as she tried to break up an argument . |
| 3 | Paul Chad , QC , prosecuting told Exeter Crown Court how Faye died after being stabbed 20 times with a 9in kitchen knife on which Harris had written ‘ Faye sorry ’ in pencil . |
| 4 | A BOY of four drowned yesterday after being swept three miles down a flooded river near Ammanford , West Wales . |
| 5 | That state schools should teach by the oral method , but that a child found incapable of learning lipreading and speech after being taught these subjects for at least the initial year should , with the consent of the parents , be removed from the oral department of the school and , subject to strict segregation , be taught on the sign and manual system elsewhere . |
| 6 | HOW proud Karen Costen must be of her two-year-old son who battled on after being given two weeks to live and has finally had a kidney transplant . |
| 7 | In his semi-final Hartlepool 's Mark Chicocki was disqualified after being given three warnings in the last round for leaning on , a decision booed soundly by the crowd and highlighted by the fact that in following bouts boxers who leaned on just as much were n't even spoken to . |
| 8 | It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) . |
| 9 | A 26-year-old man was recovering in hospital today after being shot four times in an apparent punishment shooting in the New Lodge area of Belfast last night . |
| 10 | The Pontins League includes the reserve teams of most of the North 's top clubs , with Everton gaining promotion back to the first division last season after being relegated 12 months previously . |
| 11 | None of the Republic players was more likely to come into conflict with Charlton 's tactics than Liam Brady , who announced his retirement from international football after being substituted 10 minutes from half-time in a recent friendly against West Germany . |
| 12 | He 's moving after being burgled three times in one week . |
| 13 | Earlier former Wales international David Jones rolled back the years with a top score 61 , riding his luck after being dropped three times . |
| 14 | Even after being suspended 16 days ago , Mr Onanuga said he was certain Mr Lamont paid him £18.36 for three bottles of wine and two packets of Hamlet on the crucial Monday . |
| 15 | Last night 400 bikers were drifting away from Pier Head to other ports after being told extra boats would be chartered from alternative ports today . |
| 16 | Although such possessory rights are capable of being disposed inter vivos and can devolve to one 's heirs upon death , the cardinal rule in Islam is that the State can at any time repossess the land if such land is required for the public good . |
| 17 | Now I know time is against me : the horror of being left thirteen feet in the air with no stairs to reach the ground ! |
| 18 | She had a feeling of being carried such distances by the water that it was impossible for any more harm to come to her . |
| 19 | They won in the same time as that recorded by Oxford half an hour later despite being warned three times for their steering . |
| 20 | A baby who defied the odds and survived despite being born sixteen weeks premature , has been celebrating her first birthday . |
| 21 | Despite being arrested thirty-five times — once after allegedly taking part in this high-speed chase across three counties — he 's always had to be released from police cells after being granted bail . |
| 22 | Despite being launched six months or so ago in the US , with almost singular lack of impact , this part of the package has been accepted internally as a program integrator by no less an august institution than IBM itself . |
| 23 | The teacher spoke to every child during the lesson and when one looked like being missed other children cheerfully pointed out the omission . |
| 24 | In the case of precious stones the situation could be eased by using cheaper in place of more costly varieties — topaz for diamonds , tourmaline for emerald — and latterly by deploying the science and technology which brought the new social order into being to produce synthetic versions of the most precious varieties . |
| 25 | The important thing we were concerned with was to keep those fakes off the market , and we were successful in that . |
| 26 | The government 's efforts to reign in inflation led to interest rates reaching about 15.4 p.c. in early 1990 before being cut six times to the current level of 10.95 p.c |
| 27 | Born in 1924 , his ambitions were delayed by the outbreak of the second world war in which he served in the Royal Naval Reserve from 1943 , first in Coastal Forces and then on minesweepers , rising to the rank of lieutenant before being demobilised three years later . |
| 28 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 29 | It looks like a road sweeper , but the only dirt the operators of this machine are interested in is buried several meters underground . |
| 30 | The maintenance of this repertoire is made more difficult , in that the majority of children in Roman Catholic schools seem to be taught contemporary hymns and other religious music by religious education teachers , rather than by the music staff . |