Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] by a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several officers set out when a car was stolen from Gloucester City centre when a pedestrian had his foot crushed by a police car , then another vehicle crashed into the stolen Rapier . |
| 2 | Back in 1990 England had lost to West Germany at football in a match decided by a penalties . |
| 3 | ‘ MUSICA internationale ’ was the theme taken by a schools music festival . |
| 4 | The record held by a Frenchmen stands at 44 knots that 's around 50 mph . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These are likely to be more important in rural than in urban areas ( Stanyer 1975 ) but Green himself once obtained 773 votes as an independent candidate supported by a residents ’ association in a ward election in Sheffield ( Hampton 1970:291 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Every car that comes along the line is different — a station wagon followed by a sports car followed by an export model . |
| 9 | Edward is a private detective hired by an antiques dealer who asked Edward to list all of the valuables in the house . |
| 10 | Information relating to a particular employee , former employee or applicant to become an employee of , or a particular officer , former officer or applicant to become an officer appointed by a magistrates court committee or a probation committee . |
| 11 | A SINGLE bullet fired by a police marksman ended a woman 's 47-hour hostage ordeal yesterday . |
| 12 | Pringle , who wore a green sweatshirt , was visibly scarred on the left of his mouth where he was hit by a bullet fired by a police marksman . |