Example sentences of "who was [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 Deutsche Bank has named Hilmar Kopper as chief executive , replacing Alfred Herrhausen , who was killed by a terrorist car bomb a fortnight ago ..
3 Naples-born Liliana Ferraro , 48 , will replace Judge Giovanni Falcone who was killed by the mob .
4 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 .
5 The funeral has taken place of a teenage soldier who was killed by the IRA .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 A DUNGANNON motorist who was said by a magistrate to have a ‘ dreadful drink-driving record ’ was fined £550 and lost his licence for five years at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday .
10 Having secured his new gun licence , however , the youth , who was said by the police to be ‘ nightly associated with a gang of Hooligans who undoubtedly used revolvers ’ , had then waltzed into such a commonplace retail outlet as a barber 's shop and purchased a five-chamber revolver .
11 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 .
12 Israel 's foreign minister , Shimon Peres , who was asked by the Libyans several months ago to allow the trip , says he had no illusions about Colonel Qaddafi 's motives .
13 I read the account of an architect who was consulted by a church with unsuitable premises which they wanted to adapt .
14 The chief executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship , Martin Ede , stated that centres were being closed in spite of the recent tragedy of Ben Silcock , a schizophrenic patient who was mauled by a lion at London Zoo .
15 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 ’ .
16 There appears to be no record of such injuries but there is an account , for May 1845 , of £1 : 1s. paid to Mr. Fell , the mine surgeon , for attending to Sarah Duke who was crushed by a waggon in the mine .
17 Now back to the inquest into the death of a fifteen year old hunt saboteur from Milton Keynes who was crushed by a horse box at a hunt in Cambridgeshire .
18 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 ) .
19 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 .
20 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 ) .
21 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 .
22 Patient M17 was the only individual who was colonised by the epidemic strain at the time of first referral to the unit .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 And it was n't just the hedgehog 's best friend who was honoured by the Queen today .
26 Solemn Mass was said by the Archbishop of Lisbon , who was assisted by a crew of pink-capped bishops , monsignors and one of the priests of the newly formed Society of Jesus .
27 The Grand Almoner was the Archbishop of Paris , who was assisted by a vicar-general and five chaplains who were responsible for the services in the chapels of the Imperial residences .
28 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 .
29 Yeremey succeeded Pyotr Luchinsky ( first secretary since November 1989 — see p. 37047 ) who was elected by the CPSU central committee plenum on Jan. 31 to the CPSU secretariat in place of Gennady Yanayev ( the USSR Vice-President since Dec. 26 — see pp. 37903-04 ) .
30 Kirkman Finlay who was represented by an advocate at the district meeting complained that his opponent had been guilty of bribery and corruption and had thereby disqualified himself .
  Next page