Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most prominent of the dayis were captured and beheaded , their heads being sent to the sultan ( except for one which was carried away by the Danube whilst being washed by a gypsy in preparation for the journey to Istanbul ) . |
| 2 | Nor is it easy to see on what basis a stricter protection for the wife should have been demanded by the facts in Shears and Sons Ltd. v. Jones than was demanded by the facts in Howes v. Bishop [ 1909 ] 2 K.B . |
| 3 | Douce 111 is a fifteenth-century manuscript that seems to have remained in France until being obtained by the nineteenth-century collector , Douce , and it has been deduced that the Middleton manuscript was taken as plunder from the French town of Laval during the later stages of the Hundred Years ' War , between March 1428 and September 1429 . |
| 4 | The culture of the North East , identified by Ardagh as being dominated by working class values , was formed in an era of highly paid male employment in mining , heavy engineering and marine transport . |
| 5 | However , if fundamental changes in business attitudes and government policies are induced by the creation of the SEM , these could lead to larger changes in the economy of the EC than are suggested by Cecchini . |