Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the desertion of a part of the crew is to be considered an emergency of the voyage as much as their death ; and those who remain are bound by the terms of their original contract to exert themselves to the utmost to bring the ship in safety to her destined port . |
| 2 | The Festival 's tribute to the work , teaching and writing of Raymond Williams will this year feature Alan Fountain who has been invited by the Festival and the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham to give a special talk in his memory . |
| 3 | As Yeltsin never ceases to point out , he is the one who has been legitimised by the Russian people in free elections , not parliament . |
| 4 | If a vehicle examiner who has been authorised by a chief constable examines the brakes his evidence will show a more detailed inspection and will probably name the ‘ part ’ concerned . |
| 5 | The novel proposes a man who has been swallowed by a theory of suicide . |
| 6 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 7 | Gerardo , a lawyer who has been named by the new president to investigate the old dictatorship 's abuses , invites Roberto , a sympathetic stranger , to spend the night . |
| 8 | Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ . |
| 9 | Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ . |
| 10 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 11 | No action was taken but Warrington general manager Ron Close said : ‘ We have looked closely at the video and it looks as if Jones might have deliberately kicked Bob , who has been told by a specialist that he came within an eighth of an inch of losing the eye . |
| 12 | ( c ) Enforcement of judgments Where there has been a judgment against the firm , execution may be issued against : ( 1 ) assets of the firm ; or ( 2 ) any person who has acknowledged service as a partner ; or ( 3 ) any person served as a partner who has failed to acknowledge service ; or ( 4 ) any person who has admitted in his pleading to being a partner or who has been found by the court to be a partner . |
| 13 | Returning to the jungle he finds he has to kill Lowery who has been stung by a Varga . |
| 14 | It continues : ‘ Any child or young person who has been arrested by the police and is not sent home on bail is to be consigned to this remand home whilst awaiting trial ’ . |
| 15 | I helped along people who 'd been caught by the police , sentenced by the court and had their death warrant signed by the Home Secretary . |
| 16 | I helped along people who 'd been caught by the police , sentenced by the court and had their death warrant signed by the Home Secretary . |
| 17 | Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway played with phallic imagery , played sexy , played violent and played Robin Hood by robbing banks to help farmers who 'd been foreclosed by the banks . |
| 18 | Is my is my right honourable friend aware that yesterday the Chairman of the board of inland revenue told the private accounts committee that some five hundred and fifty million pounds of unclaimed tax still remains to be picked up by tax payers who 've been affected by the er the change in the tax regime in the last couple of years where for example women are now assessed independently . |
| 19 | The press , who had been alerted by an anonymous call to Reuters the previous day by one of the assassins , were out in force , waiting and hoping to get an exclusive of an assassination , or at least an attempted assassination , for the morning papers . |
| 20 | Two guards , who had been alerted by the gunfire , ran towards the gates . |
| 21 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 22 | She was his housekeeper who had been employed by the family for 52 years . |
| 23 | Five ( 9% ) of the 54 cases and 14 ( 4% ) of the 324 controls had fathers or mothers , or both , who had been employed by the nuclear industry ( relative risk 2.2 , 95% confidence interval 0.6 to 6.9 ) . |
| 24 | First to suffer were the relatives of those who had been kidnapped by the Joint Command . |
| 25 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 26 | In the first attempt soldiers entered the radio station and ordered a journalist to read a communiqué demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister , Koukou Koffigoh , who had been elected by the national conference on Aug. 27 [ ibid. ] , and the dissolution of his transitional government , known as the High Council of the Republic [ for which see p. 38425 ] . |
| 27 | Lord Aldington was asked what he knew about the Yugoslavs who had been repatriated by the British Eight Army 's V Corps while he was chief of staff to its commander , General Sir Charles Keightley . |
| 28 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 29 | Among other things , he opposed the City Elections Act of 1725 and as sheriff ( 1729–30 ) facilitated the acquittal of Richard Franklin , the printer of the Craftsman , who had been prosecuted by the government for seditious libel . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister of Turkey 's right-wing regime of the 1950s , Adnan Menderes , and two of his Cabinet ministers , Fatin Zustu Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan , who had been overthrown by a military coup in May 1960 and hanged in 1961 [ see pp. 17501-05 ; 18375-77 ] , were given a state funeral on Sept. 17 . |