Example sentences of "[noun] by a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 2 | This afternoon in Stockwell near the murder scene , three men were spotted in a Nissan car by a police foot patrol following a tip off . |
| 3 | The siege , which ended with Keith Pringle being shot in the neck by a police marksman , was the latest incident involving firearms and has renewed calls for a clampdown on Britain 's gun laws . |
| 4 | Pringle , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot in the neck by a police marksman on Tuesday after 21-year-old Leanne Rees had been held at gunpoint for 47 hours . |
| 5 | Albert Rice was knocked down as he left a pub by a police Sierra racing to answer a distress call from two WPCs . |
| 6 | Two exhaustive and systematic visual searches and a subsequent check by a police ‘ sniffer ’ dog failed to identify any suspicious object or sign of unauthorised activity . |
| 7 | They 'd said he 'd been caught in a heliborne ambush and killed in hand to hand combat by a malai captain . |
| 8 | In cold January weather a crowd of 2,000 , kept on the pavement by a police cordon , lined the streets to watch the cortège , draped in the imperial splendour of red and white , move from the Chapmans ' home in Haslemere Avenue to Hendon Parish Church . |
| 9 | For the longer term , the Secretary of State proposes to replace the Burnham Committees by a Teachers ' Negotiating Group , with central government rather than LEAs in a majority on the employers ' side . |
| 10 | In Britain that extraordinarily prolific crime author , John Creasey ( more than 600 titles ; 25 pseudonyms ) , was challenged one day by a police inspector neighbour to " show us as we are " . |
| 11 | He is accompanied in the cab by a police officer armed with binoculars , two cellphones and a radio who can spot vandals hundreds of yards ahead . |
| 12 | He is accompanied in the cab by a police officer armed with binoculars , two cellphones and a radio , able to spot vandals hundreds of yards ahead . |
| 13 | She is being kneaded and punched like bread dough by a Valkyrie sporting the corporate logo tattooed on a bicep . |
| 14 | The claim was for a conciliation board , a national minimum rate of wages , a manning scale for stokehold , deck and galley , the abolition of medical examinations by a doctors privately appointed by the Shipping Federation offices , the right of seamen to a portion of their wages while in port and to have a representative present while signing on , the fixing of working hours and overtime rates and improved forecastle accommodation . |
| 15 | An imposing table which graced Darlington Football Club boardroom was offered for sale this week by a Quakers fan . |
| 16 | The launch of the country 's first private newspaper was announced last week by a journalists ' cooperative called Media-Coop , based in Maputo . |
| 17 | Also from the Acropolis come fragments of a large plaque dedicated to Athena by a Polias . |
| 18 | The report was submitted in March 1991 , but was only made public last month after its discovery in the Department of Environment 's library by a Friends of the Earth researcher . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 20 | But the Code will also apply where a suspect , not in detention , is being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as a police officer for the purpose of obtaining evidence . |
| 21 | Proposals for tax adjustments included the replacement of the taxation of assets by a profits tax . |
| 22 | Yet section 4 seems to place severe limitations in some circumstances on the exploration by a children 's hearing of a child 's entire social background . |
| 23 | A German captain , interviewed off Larak Island by a Times correspondent , acknowledged the risks involved but went on to point out that ‘ the money is good and the contract is only six months ’ . |
| 24 | I had a curious brush with the law myself once when I was sent by my employer to attend a day seminar on drugs to be given at the local university by a police sergeant . |
| 25 | Any decision by a Children 's Hearing must put your child 's needs first . |
| 26 | In our opinion , in all three cases , a promise made by A to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do should be enforced by the law , provided that in other respects such as legality and compatibility with public policy it is free from objection ; thus a promise in return for an agreement by a police authority to give precisely the amount of protection it was by law bound to give and no more should be unenforceable as being against public policy . |
| 27 | Christian Vilaseca , 57 — who lives in Paris and heads imports of Jaguars into France — was stopped on the M6 in Lancashire by a police Range Rover after allegedly travelling at 105mph . |
| 28 | We played two games that day at Prescott Club and we were entertained after dinner by a Fiddlers Rally — a superb day . |
| 29 | Helped to some extent by a profits upgrading from James Capel ( Amstrad 's broker ) , shares rose to 87p in the spring . |
| 30 | Pahdra was escorted from the pitch by a police poodle . |