Example sentences of "[vb pp] by mr " in BNC.
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| 1 | The management is currently dominated by Mr Wood , who was the UK 's highest-paid employee last year when he took home £6.2 million in salary and bonuses . |
| 2 | The headlines are dominated by Mr Gorbachev 's visit . |
| 3 | There , as we shall see , the judges wriggled furiously to avoid applying the principles outlined above in order to restrain the press from revealing the very serious iniquities disclosed by Mr Peter Wright , which included not only the bugging of embassies but also a conspiracy to assassinate the Egyptian President . |
| 4 | There is , to my mind , no doubt that Mr Bloch and his locksmith would not have been permitted by Mr Clayton to interfere with the existing lock if Mr Clayton had been told that that act was intended in any way to interfere with his rights under his existing sub-lease . |
| 5 | Pronounced ‘ Polly Beeious ’ by Silas Wegg , and ‘ supposed by Mr Boffin to be a Roman Virgin' . |
| 6 | It was won by Mr Richard Phelan , a white political novice with a lot of money and appeal in the rich white suburbs ; he beat Mr Eugene Pincham , a black judge . |
| 7 | The vote was also won by Mr Wilkins . |
| 8 | The most disputed proposals in the bill — to cut the public service obligations of ITV and to auction ITV franchises to the highest bidder — were attacked by Mr Roy Hattersley , Labour 's deputy leader , who said : ‘ Television franchises are to be sold like second-hand motor cars . |
| 9 | The financial benefits of the merger of these two apparently disparate companies were heavily stressed by Mr Lagardère at separate shareholders ' meetings on 29th December . |
| 10 | The third area of the value of embalming stressed by Mr Dodge was the definite and positive benefits to the family . |
| 11 | Conspicuous consumption epitomised by Mr Bond 's $53.9million purchase of Van Gogh 's Irises was as much a totem of the gilded era as insider trader Ivan Boesky 's exaltation to greed . |
| 12 | patronized by Mr Chester as ‘ very fine in his way ’ , BR 23 ; considered a ‘ terrible fellow ’ by Dora , DC 48 ; referred to as ‘ the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethan Era ’ by Mr Micawber , DC 52 ; Mrs Wititterly inspired by a visit to his birthplace , NN 27 ; dreamed of by Mrs Nickleby ( ‘ … a black gentleman at full-length , in plaster-of-Paris , with a lay-down collar tied with two tassels , leaning against a post and thinking ’ ) , NN 27 ; his borrowings of plots defended by Nicholas Nickleby , NN 48 ; criticized by a Viscount ( ‘ There 's a lot of feet in Shakespeare 's verse , but there ai n't legs worth mentioning in Shakespeare 's plays ’ ) , MC 28 ; if played entirely by wooden legs ‘ would n't draw a sixpence ’ , OCS 19 ; referred to as ‘ Swan of Avon ’ , ‘ Bard of Avon ’ , MED 9 ; SB 53 . |
| 13 | But some quite surprising right-wing converts to the idea seem to be popping out of the woodwork , attracted by Mr Lawson 's mistitled idea of ‘ competing currencies ’ . |
| 14 | One is the local chairman ; another , the council leader , was recently nominated by Mr Smith as a director of the local hospital trust . |
| 15 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 16 | The mock election has been organised by Mr Ian Gerrard , a history master , chairman of the Literary and Debating Society and returning officer , who confessed that it had been a bit of a ‘ sleazy ’ campaign . |
| 17 | A number of members of the Society began meeting in the building now occupied by Mr Ross Raymond 's cycle business — then the Anchor Cafe — and the Meeting House in Portmore Street was opened in 1905 . |
| 18 | It was reported that an offer had been made of leasehold premises in Oxford Street , between Rathbone Place and Newman Street , lately occupied by Mr Burr , stable-keeper , consisting of a dwelling house , yard , nine coach houses , 14 stables containing 51 stalls , and a covered ride . |
| 19 | The small government flat I had been expecting turned out instead to be a large if simple village haveli , occupied by Mr Postman 's extended family — his three brothers , their children and Mr Postman 's old mother . |
| 20 | The observation hole in the cell occupied by Mr McLeod had been blocked , said the sheriff . |
| 21 | If part of the credit for a breakthrough could be claimed by Mr Hussein , and so induce him to pull his army out of Kuwait , why not solve two problems in a single bloodless stroke ? |
| 22 | Milton , owned by Mr and Mrs Tom Bradley , whose daughter , the late Caroline , produced him as a youngster , would have achieved a second record had he won in California . |
| 23 | Kujabi is related to a watchman working at the house , owned by Mr Eddie Brewer , 72 , an ecologist and former British colonial service official . |
| 24 | Prosecutors claim to have found that all the companies involved in the transactions , including the shipper , were companies owned by Mr McNamara and allege that no vehicles were ever involved in the transactions . |
| 25 | Gamegards Bulli v d Waldachquelle , owned by Mr and Mrs Woodgate . |
| 26 | Pendley Goldfinch , owned by Mr and Mrs Killick . |
| 27 | Jagen Blue Star of Zarstø , owned by Mr and Mrs Andersen . |
| 28 | One such kennel is the Zarstøs Kennel , owned by Mr and Mrs L. and E. Anderson , who have produced some top winners in the last few years , the most famous of which is Int . |
| 29 | Other kennels of note in Norway are the Kimuras Kennels , owned by Mr and Mrs Lindstrome , the Dixi Gaarden Kennels and the Valheins Kennels . |
| 30 | Kolja v Bakkes , owned by Mr and Mrs Andersen . |