Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 2 | The invaluable John Bellany produces a Still Life with Lovebird that does much to substantiate his already considerable reputation , and Sylvia von Hartmann is represented by a very beautiful mixed-media creation that fully justifies the remit . |
| 3 | Murray Pugh was described by his best friend as universally popular , both with fellow students and with the children he taught.A man has already been charged with his murder . |
| 4 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 5 | William Somerville was purchased by a US firm which had previously bought Colter Guardbridge . |
| 6 | Gary Kelly was arrested by PC Tim Brown who thought he was fighting with a group of girls , the court was told . |
| 7 | Herr Nordern was quizzed by the entire staff but stoically maintained that he knew no more than anyone else . |
| 8 | Built as a rival to the parish church at Lavenham , Long Melford was financed by local parishioners , some of whose names were carved in stone around the clerestory in an inscription which called for prayers to be said for their souls . |
| 9 | In 1942 Lu Hsun was quoted by Mao Tse-tung as asserting that the aim of a modern Chinese artist should be : ‘ By selection to accept the historical legacy of Chinese traditional art ; to absorb the best style and technique from foreign art ; and thus to establish a new national art in accordance with the demands and needs of the masses . ’ |
| 10 | And now she knew that those responsible were Shi'ite terrorists from Iran , while Philippe Chaumont was held by Shi'ite terrorists in Lebanon . |
| 11 | The eagerly-awaited showdown between Alan Shearer and Ian Wright was upstaged by two Kevins Gallacher and Campbell as Blackburn Rovers drew 1-1 with Arsenal at Ewood Park . |
| 12 | If Manau Gododdin was annexed by Oswald and Oswiu at this time , the Anglian frontier in the north would now march with those of the Britons of Strathclyde to the west and the Picts to the north . |
| 13 | The BeSHT — ben Eliezer is known by that acronym — produced a shock-wave of such proportions in Judaism that it has still not recovered from him . |
| 14 | Alison Fell , novelist , poet and editor of the anthologies The Seven Deadly Sins and The Seven Cardinal Virtues is joined by Michele Roberts for an evening of fiction . |
| 15 | Queen Sarah Hardy is crowned by Keith Brundish , junior vice-president of Alresford Rotary . |
| 16 | King Abdallah was assassinated by a Palestinian in Jerusalem in July 1951 . |
| 17 | Edwin Beckett was employed by the Honourable Vicary Gibbs at Aldenham House near Elstree . |
| 18 | ( i ) When a prisoner is sentenced to imprisonment for life , within a short time the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice are invited by the Secretary of State to express their views on the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence . |
| 19 | JINXED striker David Hirst was rocked by a fresh injury heartache last night that left his England dream in tatters . |
| 20 | But , alternatively , assuming that this was not so , and that the instrument did not cease to be a negotiable instrument , then , in my judgment , from the moment when the draft sent by Sir Richard Temple was cashed by the plaintiffs a trust was created as between Sir Richard Temple and the moneylenders in favour of the former , so that any money which the latter might receive upon the promissory note , if they did receive any , would be held by them in trust for him . … |
| 21 | probably confused with Rolls Court , Chancery Lane , west London , where the Rolls Chapel was built by Inigo Jones in 1617 . |
| 22 | Ivars Ozols was trained by the Soviets to fly , but suffered a crash in a Yak which involved a horrific forced landing through trees . |
| 23 | If parents are your primary role models , then Richard Jenkins was formed by an alcoholic father and a beloved mother who died and left him when he was two . |
| 24 | In the last episode of Star Trek — The Next Generation shown in this country , Captain Jean Luc Picard is kidnapped by the beastly automaton alien hive-race — the Borg . |
| 25 | The leg irons used on Orton Chirwa were made by the Birmingham company , Hiatts ( see p4 ) . |
| 26 | David Adams was hit by a a van at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 27 | 2500 BC from Tell Asmar was published by Dr G. Rachel Levy , who has indicated its relationship with the Lernaean Hydra . |
| 28 | Following his departure from Christie 's London in December 1990 , Richard Garnier was appointed by the Crown Jewellers Garrard to head a new clock department . |
| 29 | The highly charged atmosphere of the trial was increased by its coincidence with the trial of Washington mayor Marion Barry [ see above ] and the continuing prosecution of those involved in the Bensonhurst case , in which black youth Yusef Hawkins was killed by a gang of whites in Bensonhurst in 1989 . |
| 30 | Carole Angier 's biography Jean Rhys is published by André Deutsch ( £17.99 ) |