Example sentences of "he be [verb] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is employed by a Sett of Noble Men ( by my recommendation ) to collect seeds and specimens of rare plants ’ . |
| 2 | Executive power is vested in the President , elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage : he is assisted by a Council of Ministers . |
| 3 | He is assisted by a network of regional chairmen . |
| 4 | He admits he is tempted by a turbo-charged 205 . |
| 5 | He is commemorated by a Memorial stone on the front of the old church . |
| 6 | His jewel being Gleneagles where he is commemorated by a hole called ‘ Braid 's Brawest ’ . |
| 7 | Note that this saving throw is not strictly speaking because of armour , and the Orc always has a saving throw of 6 even if he is struck by a weapon that would normally have a saving throw modifier . |
| 8 | Unfortunately he is stopped by a police boat with Compeyson on board . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the Welsh centre , Mike Hall , missed Cardiff 's 18-13 defeat by Llanelli at the weekend as he is troubled by a groin strain . |
| 10 | Significantly enough he is acknowledged by a populace fully aware of the symbolism of his action ; and even the more sceptical of modern biblical scholars regard this incident in the Gospels as historically authentic . |
| 11 | According to Miller & Dollard ( 1941 ) , " The follower ( the student ) learns to model his behaviour on that of another ( the teacher ) through responding to cues of sameness , for which he is rewarded by a reduction of anxiety , and to cues of difference , which increase the strength of the anxiety drive . |
| 12 | In pursuit of these , Mopsus proposes marriage to a fine lady and is beaten by her servants ; he steals his father 's rent money and sets out for London where he is robbed by a prostitute and thrown into gaol ; his father sends more money which he uses to bribe the gaoler ; he is tricked into marrying an aristocrat 's mistress who promptly gives birth ; the woman leaves and the baby dies ; the prodigal returns to his father . |
| 13 | Watch the Iraqi strongman slump to the ground as he is felled by a sniper 's bullet . |
| 14 | Today he is surrounded by a court . |
| 15 | He is surrounded by a cast of variously eccentric characters , from her beefcake boyfriend ( I can well imagine that Kevin Kline stole the show in that part ) to his secretly fanatic prospective sponsor ( Imogene Coca , relishing every word of ‘ Repent ’ ) . |
| 16 | And he is backed by a team that has information on thousands of similar operations , including others in your area of operations . |
| 17 | A man should walk on the outside of the pavement when he is accompanied by a woman ! |
| 18 | Did the fact that he is accompanied by a doctor on the campaign trail help to lose him last week 's TV showdown with Clinton ? |
| 19 | He is accompanied by a band of men , presumably armed , and bears arrest warrants from the High Priest . |
| 20 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |
| 21 | Where the defendant does realise that he is confronted by a policeman , it is not necessary for the prosecutor to show that he is aware that the latter is acting in the execution of his duty . |
| 22 | If a person knows that he is confronted by a policeman and comes to the conclusion , wrongly , that the policeman is acting outside the scope of his duty , he acts at his peril if he chooses to use force to escape from his predicament . |
| 23 | Where , however , the defendant is unaware that he is confronted by a policeman and believes himself to be entitled to use force , the situation is different . |
| 24 | He is murdered by a peasant , Gaspard , whose child has been killed by the furious driving of his coachman . |
| 25 | He is filmed by a video surveillance camera . |
| 26 | In 1827 to 1830 , he is mentioned by a number of deaf people as living and working in Manchester , where he died sometime in 1830 , exact date unknown . |
| 27 | Writer/director Raimi continues that gruesome trend here , with Bruce Campbell slicing off part of his right arm with a chainsaw in the opening moments as he is attacked by a force of darkness . |
| 28 | He refuses to explain lyrics or is the listener is getting uncomfortably close , he is deflected by a reminder that the songs are as much about other people as himself . |
| 29 | In middle age , the fire of battle gone , his emotional needs unsatisfied , he is finished by a scandal . |
| 30 | He is an agent entrusted with the possession of goods of several principals , or sometimes only one principal , for the purpose of sale in his own name without disclosing the name of this principal and he is remunerated by a commission . |