Example sentences of "be sentenced to [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Pit Bull Terrier has been sentenced to death by magistrates , because her owner loosened her muzzle to allow her to drink from a puddle in the street . |
| 2 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |
| 3 | Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST . |
| 4 | Andrei Chikatilo has been sentenced to death by shooting for committing fifty-two murders in Russia . |
| 5 | Three more people were sentenced to death by a military court at Blida , 50 km south-west of Algiers , on May 6 in connection with an attempt in mid-February to seize arms from a naval dry dock in Algiers . |
| 6 | Eight Islamic activists were sentenced to death by a special military court in Alexandria on Dec. 3 , seven in absentia . |
| 7 | In the year 1170 , Sancie , the widow of Count Gaston V of Béarn , was sentenced to trial by water here , having given birth to a child rather too long after her husband 's death . |
| 8 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |