Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funeral has taken place of a teenage soldier who was killed by the IRA . |
| 2 | ‘ Ihre Kameraden , ’ said a soldier who was sitting by the window . |
| 3 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
| 4 | Following 13 years ' deliberation by a special Vatican commission , Pope John Paul II on Oct. 31 formally rehabilitated Galileo Galilei , the Italian astronomer , mathematician and physicist who was forced by the Inquisition in 1633 to recant his assertion that the earth orbited the sun . |
| 5 | The evidence of a child who was taught by the ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ method is that at the age of 5 she is able to talk and play with normal children at a normal school and although she may not be as far ahead , the results of this method seem astounding . |
| 6 | Rogelio Ramirez de la O , a Mexico City economist who was ridiculed by the government last year for predicting so large a deficit , now says that a big peso devaluation ( of perhaps 15% ) is four months off . |
| 7 | However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes . |
| 8 | And it was n't just the hedgehog 's best friend who was honoured by the Queen today . |
| 9 | In our July 18 issue we published an article about Olympic silver medallist , Linford Christie , which suggested that a few years ago he was a violent troublemaker who was listed by the police as ‘ dangerous ’ . |
| 10 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 11 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 12 | Käthe Kollwitz , who was an honourary member from 1940 to 1943 and Oda Schottmüller the resistance fighter who was killed by the Nazis in 1943 retained their membership . |
| 13 | The amnesty prevents the trial of other military leaders , including General Rene Emilio Ponce , the defence minister who was cited by the Truth Commission for ordering the Jesuit murders . |
| 14 | Among the loyalist tally is three workmen and a leading IRA terrorist who were murdered by the UFF in Castlerock earlier this year . |
| 15 | Patient M17 was the only individual who was colonised by the epidemic strain at the time of first referral to the unit . |
| 16 | This form is called a medusa after the unfortunate woman in a Greek myth who was loved by the god of the sea and as a result had her hair changed by a jealous goddess into snakes . |
| 17 | At seven o'clock all the guests assembled in an ante-room known as the Salle des fêtes , to await the arrival of the Imperial couple who were announced by the Grand Chamberlain . |
| 18 | With school attendance , for example , it was the working class mother who was visited by the school attendance officer if her child failed to attend school , whether through inability to pay the school fee charged prior to 1891 , indiscipline , or because the child 's services were needed at home . |