Example sentences of "be [verb] to [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry . |
| 2 | A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event . |
| 3 | Several groups of Communes are in the LFA Zone de Montagne ; in the Rochefort-Montagne Commune of Puy-de-Dome much encouragement has been given to remembrement by M. Giscard d'Estaing who resides in the area and is in favour of ‘ progressive ’ agriculture . |
| 4 | They are aroused to activity by others , by friendship , by relating . |
| 5 | Some of the Phocaeans had been stoned to death by the Etruscans of Caere , traditional philhellenes ; some had to move to Elea in southern Italy . |
| 6 | POLICE hunting the killer of a champion Ayrshire cow believe it may have been slashed to death by a jealous farmer . |
| 7 | and Popplewell J. ) on 20 March 1992 issuing a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum on the motion of the applicant , David Thomas Alves , who , on 16 August 1990 , had been committed to custody by the Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate sitting at Bow Street to await extradition to Sweden at the request of the Government of Sweden in respect of a number of charges relating to the smuggling of cannabis into Sweden in 1984 and 1986 . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Shackel 's unfortunate man had been done to death by his two attackers , and Peck now had a manslaughter case on his hands , a crime he might well have prevented . |
| 9 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 10 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 11 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 12 | After a successful rescue the small party is relentlessly pursued by the Viet Cong , but they are airlifted to safety by helicopters of the Air Cavalry . |
| 13 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 14 | A Pit Bull Terrier has been sentenced to death by magistrates , because her owner loosened her muzzle to allow her to drink from a puddle in the street . |
| 15 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |
| 16 | Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST . |
| 17 | Andrei Chikatilo has been sentenced to death by shooting for committing fifty-two murders in Russia . |
| 18 | They could all have screamed the place down , Mary could have been bitten to death by bats , and no one would have come . |
| 19 | Mrs Thatcher 's been told to shut-up by her former press secretary . |
| 20 | Then I am going to sleep by the fire . ’ |
| 21 | Nicholson had completed his scenes , having been kicked to death by two marauding red-necks , leaving Captain America and Billy the Kid to continue their journey to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras , their adventures in a brothel and the LSD scene which took a week to shoot because no one could focus on what they were supposed to be doing . |
| 22 | Husband Tony 's business colleague Alan Easton said : ‘ He rang to say his wife had been trampled to death by a herd of cows . |
| 23 | British Moslem leaders claimed that the ban was an example of British double standards , since there had been no ban on Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses , for which he had first been condemned to death by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in February 1989 [ see pp. 36450-51 ; 37266 ] . |
| 24 | He had been invited to dinner by Jenny . |
| 25 | WHEN law-abiding citizens are driven to desperation by criminals who apparently flout the law with impunity , it is hard to blame them when they take things into their own hands . |
| 26 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that the doctrine of fundamental breach , as a rule of law , has finally been laid to rest by Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 , and it would now appear that fundamental breach is relevant only as a factor to be considered in the construction of the contract . |
| 27 | The painting has been consigned to sale by a descendant of the Ferrer family who have owned it since it was painted . |
| 28 | The pope died in exile ; the emperor had been " humbled " at Canossa ; and other rulers , the Normans , had been brought to prominence by the papacy . |
| 29 | There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end . |
| 30 | Although in a company official 's words Informix Software Inc has managed to ‘ get away without it ’ so far , the Menlo Park , California-based software house has finally been brought to book by competitive and market pressures . |