Example sentences of "who had been [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two guards , who had been alerted by the gunfire , ran towards the gates . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was his housekeeper who had been employed by the family for 52 years . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | First to suffer were the relatives of those who had been kidnapped by the Joint Command . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Those who had been formed by the politics of black nationalism , or roots radicalism , or by the various schools of classical Marxism all in different ways stressed the continuities with the past . |
| 11 | Next morning they attended the Requiem Mass for their dead colleague who had been dressed by the monks for burial and now lay in a new pine coffin in front of the sanctuary steps of the abbey church . |
| 12 | Waite J. also recorded that Dr. N. , a consultant paediatrician and paediatric cardiologist with another London teaching hospital who had been consulted by the Official Solicitor , was broadly in agreement with Dr. I. The judge no doubt also had in mind the report of Dr. R. , who had confirmed all Dr. I. 's findings , but had not in terms expressed a view on the appropriateness of positive pressure ventilation . |
| 13 | Clearly not your average Pennine Way walker , he was in fact a botanist called Mike Prosser , who had been contracted by the Nature Conservancy Council to survey the area for species of rare plants and flowers which are known to flourish in certain areas of Teesdale — given the right , exceedingly rare conditions . |
| 14 | He was of course referring to the members of the Legitimist aristocracy , still loyal to ‘ Henry V ’ , the last of the elder Bourbon line , the grandson of Charles X who had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 and who lived in exile at Frohsdorf in Bohemia . |
| 15 | Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair . |
| 16 | The drawl of Judge Thomas Longhorne Colpeper , pompously expounding points of law ; the gentle Detroit brogue of Trooper Washington Burnside , whose gun she still carried ; the primal shriek of Cheeks , who had been maddened by the D.I.V.O.R.C.E . |
| 17 | ‘ We think as you 're out o ’ pocket enough , what wi' buyin' the timber , an' it 's to our advantage , ’ a carpenter explained — the man who had been cheated by the coal merchant . |
| 18 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |
| 19 | However , the original ‘ Biff Boys ’ , the hearty undergraduate types who had been trained by the Jewish boxer Ted ‘ Kid ’ Lewis , were now joined by others with more controversial opinions and methods ; in August 1932 a nineteen-year-old member of the New Party was convicted of sticking labels on shop windows in London 's Oxford Street urging the expulsion of the Jews from Britain . |
| 20 | He talked about those who had been fired by the spirit but had lost touch with the soul ; about unassimilated shadows which foisted evil on to enemies rather than bringing responsibility back home ; he talked of tight-ropes and sword-bridges and the narrow course between the clashing rocks . |
| 21 | Madame Bihi was a longstanding diplomatic representative who had been appointed by the government of President Barre . |
| 22 | Opinion surveys suggested that he would enter the election as the clear favourite against Harris Wofford , the Democrat who had been appointed by the state governor to fill the vacancy temporarily and who had been selected by the Democrats as their candidate for the forthcoming election . |
| 23 | For giving moral support to Robert of Artois , who had been condemned by the French as a traitor and a declared enemy of the king of France , Edward III could be regarded as having acted against his oath of fealty through such a serious act of defiance . |
| 24 | The parliamentary commission began on Jan. 15 to hear evidence about the land sales , from Valverde and 70 other individuals , and from government departments , local authorities and private companies who had been named by the IU , the conservative Popular Party ( PP ) , the Social and Democratic Centre ( CDS ) and the Basque parliamentary group . |
| 25 | Vice-President Godoy , the government 's chief critic , who had been ostracized by the Cabinet , accused Chamorro of having capitulated to the Sandinistas . |
| 26 | A bomb on May 1 destroyed a newly unveiled monument in Volta Redonda , approximately 100 km north-west of Rio de Janeiro , to three steelworkers who had been killed by the Army during a strike in November 1988 [ see p. 36553 ] . |
| 27 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 28 | Opinion surveys suggested that he would enter the election as the clear favourite against Harris Wofford , the Democrat who had been appointed by the state governor to fill the vacancy temporarily and who had been selected by the Democrats as their candidate for the forthcoming election . |
| 29 | A total of 306 people who had been detained by the security forces during 1989 , mostly in areas under states of emergency , had disappeared , 150 of them in Apurimac department alone . |
| 30 | The leading exponent of this structuralist critique was Nicos Poulantzas , who had been influenced by the French structuralist Marxist Louis Althusser . |