Example sentences of "[verb] by a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was chased and bitten by a police dog and then arrested for being drunk and disorderly after he became abusive . |
| 32 | The re-contras claimed that 66 former contras had been killed during the year in continuing clashes with Sandinista army and police personnel who they wanted replaced by a police force which included ex-contras . |
| 33 | This designation was not without its local hostility ; the validity of the designation order was challenged by a residents ' protection society and the High Court held in favour of the objectors . |
| 34 | TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader . |
| 35 | The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion . |
| 36 | ( 13 ) If the cash for the bid is to be raised by a rights issue of the bidder ( cash placings to selected shareholders or third parties are strongly resisted by the IPCs without shareholders being offered pre-emption entitlements , particularly if the issue is at a significant discount ) , then it may be necessary to increase its authorised share capital and directors ' authority to implement the rights issue and , if the issue will not comply with the strict statutory requirements of CA 1985 , s89 , to pass a special resolution to disapply that section . |
| 37 | The tank is lit by a 48″ Actinic , 48″ Northlight and a 42″ Triton . |
| 38 | In the family proceedings court this power may be exercised by a justices ' clerk . |
| 39 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 40 | The display of shells and butterflies from Wales and the rest of the world is complimented by a children 's Quiz |
| 41 | Mrs Williams , 54 , is the former headmistress of St Paul 's Girls ' school in London who was forced to quit by a parents ' rebellion over an attempt to limit the number of GCSEs her girls sat . |
| 42 | This is exemplified by a children 's toy called the tippe-top . |
| 43 | Guo Weichang had stabbed 20 women on Shanghai buses before he was seized by a police chief on the same bus as the 21st . |
| 44 | Pond aeration is provided by a venturi and a bag of Clarisan is suspended over the outlet pipe to help control blanket weed . |
| 45 | An example provided by a kachcheri mudaliyar shows that out of a crop which yielded sixty bushels of paddy , a little over eight bushels was paid for cattle hire . |
| 46 | Information collected within operational systems , such as payroll , can feed into decision support systems such as are provided by a personnel data base , which in turn can be summarised for use in planning and modelling systems . |
| 47 | Another example is provided by a children 's picture puzzle that involves finding the drawing of a human face amongst the foliage in the drawing of a tree . |
| 48 | The alternative route , proposed by a consortia led by the American bank Manufacturers Hanover and the construction group Bechtel , would end at a terminal in Stratford , East London . |
| 49 | Edward is a private detective hired by an antiques dealer who asked Edward to list all of the valuables in the house . |
| 50 | Some of the crowd attempted to strike up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ but they were interrupted by a police loudspeaker announcement , which was shouted down ; this was probably an order to disperse but very few could have heard it . |
| 51 | Isabel Lenihan , who 's 77 , was found by a police helicopter . |
| 52 | With an overnight stop at Northolt the convoy reached Hendon , accompanied by a police motorcycle escort , on March 20 , 1972 . |
| 53 | A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday . |
| 54 | That application still exists , accompanied by a head-and-shoulders photograph of Joyce , smartly-suited and with hair plastered down . |
| 55 | This point can best be proved by a police officer who observes some actual unnecessary obstruction of the road causing other road users inconvenience , delay , or complete blockage of the road etc . |
| 56 | ‘ Every car that comes along the line is different — a station wagon followed by a sports car followed by an export model . |
| 57 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 58 | His comments come two days after a Birmingham coroner at an inquest on two men killed when their van was struck by a police car accused force drivers of using TV car stunt tactics |
| 59 | Home 2 is one of five Homes run by a Churches Housing Trust . |
| 60 | And in Hereford and Worcester , facilities for abused children are run by a children 's charity and paid for by the authority . |