Example sentences of "who was [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order . |
| 2 | Naples-born Liliana Ferraro , 48 , will replace Judge Giovanni Falcone who was killed by the mob . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Zivkovic , who was asked by the judge to be more polite , said : ‘ I think he is guilty if he was chief of staff of V Corps at the time of the handing over . |
| 7 | The previous interim Vice-President Jules Wijdenbosch of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , who was supported by the army , won 120 votes and the remaining 52 votes went to Hans Prade of the Democratic Alternative " 91 ( DA-91 ) . |
| 8 | Krase , who was sacked by the Defence Ministry in 1984 for incompetence over the affair and died in 1988 , had prepared the MAD reports which led the then Defence Minister Manfred Wörner to dismiss Kiessling . |
| 9 | His main challenger , winning 32.75 per cent , was Ahmed Ould Daddah , brother of the country 's first post-independence President Mokhtar Ould Daddah ( who was overthrown by the army in 1978 ) . |
| 10 | She put a shaking hand up to her mouth , her eyes falling on Ellen , who was kneeling by the fireplace , clutching the tattered edges of her dress together over her breasts and watching her father anxiously . |
| 11 | Patient M17 was the only individual who was colonised by the epidemic strain at the time of first referral to the unit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And it was n't just the hedgehog 's best friend who was honoured by the Queen today . |
| 15 | The party also nominated the head of state ( currently Mathieu Kerekou , who assumed office in 1972 and was most recently re-elected in August 1989 ) , who was elected by the Assembly for a five-year term and who presided over the National Executive Council . |
| 16 | Mr Guthrie , who was appointed by the Home Secretary in 1988 , recently accepted an invitation from the director , Lt Cdr Brian Miles to visit Headquarters and as the date coincided with the lottery , Mr Guthrie agreed to draw the 20 lucky numbers . |
| 17 | A ‘ hands off ’ approach was regarded as crucial by Sir Raymond Lygo who was appointed by the Home Secretary in August 1991 to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service . |
| 18 | Harris , 49 , who was appointed by the board to assess the charges on December 10 , retired from Microsoft Corp in 1987 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Thank you to enthusiast Robin Reid who was fascinated by the picture of the model of the R–101 featured in FlyPast in July . |
| 21 | Katherine , a niece of the Irish patriot Kevin Barry who was shot by the English in 1916 , married Patrick six months before his death in Dublin from lung cancer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Prime Minister Narasimha Rao , who was required by the Constitution to enter parliament within six months , won Nandyal in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh by a record margin of 580,297 votes ; Defence Minister Sharad Pawar was elected in a Maharashtra seat . |
| 24 | He told chat show host Joan Rivers he hid the tapes for his friend , electronics expert Fred Otash , who was paid by the crime syndicate to bug Monroe 's home . |
| 25 | Except for the head of the house , who was chosen by the housemaster , the Library elected its own members . |
| 26 | Helen , who was standing by the window , said suddenly , ‘ Here 's another client coming up the drive — I think that 's Mr Jarvis 's car . ’ |
| 27 | Frank Grimwood showed no sign of moving , or even of lifting his eyes from his plate , except to flick them at Kennedy who was standing by the door . |
| 28 | Her eyes flew open and she stared in shock at Luke , who was standing by the desk . |
| 29 | Sarah 's eyes went to her mother , who was standing by the table , rolling pastry . |
| 30 | ‘ Ihre Kameraden , ’ said a soldier who was sitting by the window . |