Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO men walked free yesterday after being cleared of the manslaughter of twin teenage girls who died in a barn blaze . |
| 2 | JULIAN DICKS had the perfect answer after being stripped of the West Ham captaincy on returning from a five-game ban . |
| 3 | The man escaped from Coney Hill mental hospital in Gloucester , where he 'd been sent exactly a year ago after being convicted of the assault of a three year old girl in the city . |
| 4 | Minutes after being informed of the test results Maureen said : ‘ I 'm just glad I 'm going to get the right one back . |
| 5 | Sgt Newman 's father , Eric , 58 , suffered a mild angina attack after being told of the shooting , and was being cared for by a neighbour last night . |
| 6 | Her oil worker husband , Les , flew home after being told of the tragedy … on his 40th birthday . |
| 7 | It felt tight and hot in spite of being made of the softest combed cotton . |
| 8 | But Hill is a fighter , a man who knows all about the inner trauma of rejection and who overcame the stigma of being stripped of the England captaincy and banned . |
| 9 | I was afraid of being suspected of the murder , I suppose . ’ |
| 10 | The Palestinians are also suffering in their country , including being deprived of the use of gas masks and adequate warning systems . |
| 11 | When the messenger arrived in his camp bringing news of his call to the throne , all Imrik said was ‘ Why ? ’ , and upon being told of the murders , he commented ‘ Bad , very bad ’ , which was considered quite long-winded for him . |
| 12 | I was not alone in being reminded of the superficial blandness of , for example , Benetton ads — images fraught with a complexity of issues . |
| 13 | There are two different versions to be discerned of the intensional pattern behind the surface structure adjective + noun , depending on what exactly the adjectival property qualifies . |
| 14 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 15 | and much more was to be heard of the Bethnal Green survey and its implications . |
| 16 | In consolidated financial statements a similar analysis is to be presented of the amounts of minority interest attributable to equity and non-equity shares issued by subsidiaries . |
| 17 | GPs are to be warned of the side effects of prescribing steroids to children after a nine year old girl died after taking the drugs . |
| 18 | Having achieved our reconciliation to God Jesus now asks people everywhere to be reborn of the Spirit in order to enter into his new humanity . |
| 19 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 20 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that a review is to be undertaken of the use by the security and intelligence agencies of informants and other sources ? |
| 21 | There is a history to be written of the VOICE in pop , the voice that makes present the physicality of the body . |
| 22 | I had to be rid of the English boy . |
| 23 | In the sixteenth century , Roman Catholicism was ripe for reform , but Luther 's success depended less on religious conviction than on the determination of the north German princes to be rid of the political influence of Rome . |
| 24 | Anxious to be rid of the interruption , Madame Weill carefully brought the offending nude inside . |
| 25 | In spite of rationally accepting hardship , I would have done almost anything to be rid of the pain , which by now dominated every thought . |
| 26 | Tempy was unable to fathom her mistress ' desire to be rid of the groom , nor the depth of feeling behind the words . |
| 27 | In the meantime , in order to prepare to work the system themselves , the Corporation wished to be rid of the fifteen cars that were the property of the B.E.T. , and asked them to remove them forthwith . |
| 28 | It would certainly save trouble to be rid of the children , and to know they were being taught . |
| 29 | It was largely his own determination to be rid of the tag of illness that brought eventual healing . |
| 30 | For Mr Clinton , longing to be rid of the Bosnian distraction , this approach is tempting : take the lead , do something , keep niftily out of the swamp . |