Example sentences of "[verb] by a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHAMPIONS Leeds face an FA inquiry after being reported by a police officer who was shocked by their four-letter tirade . |
| 2 | He was caught by a police radar in Lydney . |
| 3 | Such is the case : Ullapool was designed by a Fisheries Association in 1788 as a base for the herring industry and today the centre of activity is still the splendid harbour , a place of boats and bustle and screaming seagulls . |
| 4 | Before leaving school , he was interviewed by a careers officer who asked him : ‘ Do you want a job in a factory ? ’ |
| 5 | Eventually Neil was interviewed by a customs officer who , he says , ‘ Looked like Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks , but unlike him was as straight on the inside as he appeared on the outside . ’ |
| 6 | The body was tracked by a police helicopter and recovered by the Mersey Inshore Rescue Service , said coroner Roy Barter . |
| 7 | Back in 1990 England had lost to West Germany at football in a match decided by a penalties . |
| 8 | Keith Pringle who was shot by a police marksman after a 47-hour siege in Darlington was yesterday said to be in a ‘ stable ’ condition in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 9 | Pringle , 24 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot by a police marksman three weeks ago after a 47-hour siege in which his 21-year-old ex-girlfriend Leanne Rees was taken hostage . |
| 10 | Pringle , 24 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , suffered a jaw injury when shot by a police marksman at the end of an Easter siege incident in Darlington . |
| 11 | At seven-twenty that same morning , Scott had been at the site of an unusual hit-and-run story : two older men had been killed and another injured by a police patrol car . |
| 12 | If such questions can be answered by a GIS then considerable sums of money could be saved by companies involved in distribution and sales . |
| 13 | There are thus two types of query that are answered by a GIS . |
| 14 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 15 | Profits made by a parents ' association are liable to taxation , registration with the Charity Commissioners enables the association to escape tax liability . |
| 16 | In the family proceedings court an appointment may be made by a justices ' clerk . |
| 17 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | She is extremely distressed and has been seen by a police surgeon . |
| 19 | In view of incidents involving visiting supporters vehicles during previous seasons , coaches are requested to rendezvous at junction 25 , M1/A52 where they will be met by a police escort . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've got ta be the only band in history to be sued by a comics company and a clothing company , ’ says Eugene , wryly . |
| 21 | The dissemination of information on employment is facilitated by a Careers liaison Group which provides a forum for student services staff and Modular Course tutors . |
| 22 | Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy . |
| 23 | Editorials regularly refer to the magazine being produced by an all-women team , from the Editress and her fair , brilliant and chivalrous staff , down to the merry-faced ruddy-cheeked little lassie that in quainter and ruder hives of literature would be represented by a grim-visaged imp in paper-cap and corduroys yclept a " Printer 's ( This was typical of its style . ) |
| 24 | ( b ) Powers of a justices ' clerk Certain functions of the court may be performed by a justices ' clerk who may in turn delegate these functions to any clerk of the court authorised for this purpose . |
| 25 | It is open to debate whether the office should be performed by a police officer or by a prosecutorial figure . |
| 26 | It must however be emphasized that these powers can not be used by a solicitors ' incorporated practice to do anything in breach of the Solicitors Act 1974 , the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to incorporated practices — in this regard attention is drawn to the proviso set out in Clause 3(a) . |
| 27 | It must however be emphasised that these powers can not be used by a solicitors ' incorporated practice to do anything in breach of the Solicitors Act 1974 , the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to incorporated practices — in this regard attention is drawn to the proviso set out in Clause 3(a) . |
| 28 | Give three examples of display devices used by a GIS . |
| 29 | An overview of the manipulative functions offered by a GIS for both cartographic and attribute databases is given in this section . |
| 30 | However , as STEPHEN THORPE reports , this historic match was marred by a spectators ' boycott which kept the overall crowd down to 6500 |