Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Farming communities , such as are found in Central Wales , benefitted a great deal from the advent of the railway : it meant cheaper raw materials , but at the same time the value of farm produce increased due to the railways ' ease of access to the more affluent urban markets .
2 The Minister for Local Government , Rural Development and Special Education , Maulana Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi , resigned on March 4 after being criticized by Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif for not supporting the government 's policies over the Gulf war .
3 NRA officials placed booms across the river at Barnard Castle and a tributary further upstream after being alerted by Northumbrian Water .
4 K.W.S. , at No. 10 with Rock Your Baby , missed a big party in their honour after being mobbed by hysterical fans .
5 After being mobbed by local rugby fans Botha said : ‘ We have come here to prove that we are all equal and our rugby is unified . ’
6 Nine pupils and two teachers were treated in hospital after being overcome by noxious fumes in a classroom at Lancaster Boys ' School , Leicester .
7 In March this year , Bishop Peter Ball resigned after being cautioned for gross indecency and is now retired on a church pension .
8 A schoolboy who drowned after being swept into rough seas by a wave at Burton Bradstock , Dorset , on Wednesday was named yesterday as Mark Cleverly , 12 , from Hengrove , Bristol .
9 The Villa boss , who has his own obsession to win the title after being sacked by United for failing to land the coveted prize , took his Villa players out for a post-Christmas celebration .
10 Meanwhile Winston Scott has been transferred to Albany prison on the Isle of Wight , where he was on hunger strike for a week after being placed in solitary confinement .
11 A similar number ran away after being placed in local authority care .
12 Former Ulster dancing champion Yasmin ( 23 ) is seen in the advert strutting through Belfast city centre — dancing in a green catsuit after being energised by giant Finn McCool .
13 The LDP also suffered from the continuing consequences of the Recruit scandal ( in October Hishashi Shinto , one of the country 's most senior industrialists , was given a suspended two-year sentence for his role in the affair — see p. 37780 ) and the resignation from the party of a former Cabinet Minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , after being charged with large-scale tax evasion [ see p. 37917 ] .
14 A TEENAGE mother banned from seeing her six-month-old baby girl after being charged with ill treating her in a cot at a London hospital ward , can now visit her under social services supervision .
15 In two separate instances , at least four persons were reported to have been killed Peshawar and Karachi after being hit by stray bullets as a result of aerial firing by trigger happy individuals .
16 Dornier , the German company which built ROSAT , is trying to cover how it failed after being hit by high-energy particles from a solar flare .
17 THE sight of Martin Bell falling injured after being hit by Serbian mortar fire reminds us of the risks reporters take to bring us the news .
18 She said as much to Bunny , who , after being furnished with certain examples of this refreshing trait , decided he ought to look into the matter .
19 Nevertheless , some Brazilian coffee exporters have done well after being liberated from bureaucratic controls , which means that Brazil 's coffee industry is now divided on what the country 's next move should be .
20 Their father was jailed in 1986 after being convicted of serious sexual crimes against his children .
21 Their father was jailed in 1986 after being convicted of serious sexual crimes against his children .
22 Colling , who admitted causing criminal damage , common assault , unlawful wounding , and three charges of obtaining property by deception , was sentenced to eight months imprisonment , to run consecutively with an 18 month sentence he received at Durham Crown Court in February after being convicted of other deception charges .
23 He was paralysed after being shot by armed robbers in his home country of Nigeria .
24 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 .
25 He was flown here after being injured by armed robbers .
26 The doors to the kitchens seemed to be the originals , stripped and revarnished and rehung after being fitted with modern Yale locks .
27 Almost a thousand haemophiliacs are fighting for compensation after being treated with imported blood products .
28 He was released from Guy 's Hospital yesterday afternoon after being treated for severe lacerations to his wrists and arms .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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