Example sentences of "was [vb pp] by [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His position was filled by the former chair of the board , Detlev Rohwedder , who was succeeded as chair by Jens Odenwald , chairman of the West German Kaufhof retail stores chain . |
| 2 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
| 3 | A PUB landlord was attacked by a former customer he had barred days before , a court heard . |
| 4 | Maha Banat was accused of adultery with Ahmed Hussein al-Zahrani , a Saudi citizen , whom she claims she does not know , and who was sentenced by the same court to three months ' imprisonment and 100 lashes . |
| 5 | And er whether this is true or not is immaterial , it 's part of the family er story that when Lloyd George was importuned by the this family up in . |
| 6 | He was sure that she was animated by the same desire . |
| 7 | He also hinted that the transformation of reptiles into birds was produced by the same mechanism . |
| 8 | At the same time , the Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit was commissioned by the former Training Agency to identify competences in the areas of literacy and numeracy which would link to the BBC programmes . |
| 9 | Expenditure on education was affected by the same influence , although this accounts for only part of the large decline in its share from 1979 to 1983 . |
| 10 | At a plenum of the Georgian central committee the following day the party first secretary , Dzumber Patiashvili , resigned and was replaced by the former head of the Georgian KGB , Givi Gumbaridze ; the Georgian prime minister and head of state also tendered their resignations . |
| 11 | The whole interior was marked by the same fastidiousness she was applying to this task ; every surface neat and polished . |
| 12 | The fraudulent conduct of the poll , and the subsequent annullment , was deplored by the former President , Mr Jimmy Carter . |
| 13 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
| 14 | However , at last year 's SNP conference , a call to drop the commitment to renationalise the public utilities was made by the convener of publicity , John Swinney , and was supported by a former party leader , Gordon Wilson . |
| 15 | Fifteen minutes later he was escorted by the same guard to a huge theatre-like room on the same floor . |
| 16 | When the printing operation of Mr Maxwell 's quoted company Maxwell Communications was taken over by its management this year , 24 per cent was retained by the former parent . |
| 17 | It has also been held that where the right which the applicant seeks to protect by action in a court was created by the same statute as provided the ( alternative ) remedy for its protection , the statutory remedy is the only one available . |
| 18 | But the horror which writers such as Dickens expressed at the cruelty of his times was prompted by no such knowledge . |
| 19 | They belong to an old elite : the landowners and merchants whose wealth was confiscated by the former regime , which abolished all forms of private ownership . |