Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order . |
| 2 | But the rules official , who was summoned by radio , decided , after much argument , that Harley 's claim was not justifiable . |
| 3 | Her father was an eccentric , outspoken critic of the government , who was killed by police in 1985 . |
| 4 | Deutsche Bank has named Hilmar Kopper as chief executive , replacing Alfred Herrhausen , who was killed by a terrorist car bomb a fortnight ago .. |
| 5 | Ricks ' talk features a brilliant analysis of Dylan 's 1964 song , The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll , which tells the story of a woman who was killed by a rich young man , William ‘ Zanzinger ’ . |
| 6 | Naples-born Liliana Ferraro , 48 , will replace Judge Giovanni Falcone who was killed by the mob . |
| 7 | Käthe Kollwitz , who was an honourary member from 1940 to 1943 and Oda Schottmüller the resistance fighter who was killed by the Nazis in 1943 retained their membership . |
| 8 | Anti-government protests intensified following the death on March 5 of an 11-year-old schoolgirl who was killed by a stray bullet as troops fired warning shots in an effort to disperse demonstrators in the southern town of Petit-Goave . |
| 9 | The funeral has taken place of a teenage soldier who was killed by the IRA . |
| 10 | An inquest has been opened and adjourned on a nurse from Gloucester who was killed by terrorists while on holiday in Egypt . |
| 11 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 12 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 13 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 14 | Having secured his new gun licence , however , the youth , who was said by the police to be ‘ nightly associated with a gang of Hooligans who undoubtedly used revolvers ’ , had then waltzed into such a commonplace retail outlet as a barber 's shop and purchased a five-chamber revolver . |
| 15 | A DUNGANNON motorist who was said by a magistrate to have a ‘ dreadful drink-driving record ’ was fined £550 and lost his licence for five years at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday . |
| 16 | Mr Zivkovic , who was asked by the judge to be more polite , said : ‘ I think he is guilty if he was chief of staff of V Corps at the time of the handing over . |
| 17 | For example , there was the caddie who was asked by Harry Vardon , who was having a dose of the horrors , ‘ What on earth should I take now ? ’ |
| 18 | Israel 's foreign minister , Shimon Peres , who was asked by the Libyans several months ago to allow the trip , says he had no illusions about Colonel Qaddafi 's motives . |
| 19 | At the main gate they came across a sentry who was upbraided by Maclean for his slovenly appearance and ordered to call the guard commander . |
| 20 | Perhaps the biggest surprise of the weekend was the upset of Berkshire 's Heather Matthews , who was defeated by the fast improving Claire Taylor ( Oxon ) . |
| 21 | I read the account of an architect who was consulted by a church with unsuitable premises which they wanted to adapt . |
| 22 | It was Minton , not Vaughan , who was asked to judge competitions , who drew drawings for the Tribune pamphlet The Jews at Home by Woodrow Wyatt , MP ; Minton who was invited by the British Tourist Authority to illustrate their official booklet on London and whose design for the ‘ Christmas Books Number ’ appeared , with a Picassoesque lamp on the cover of The Listener on 9 December 1948 . |
| 23 | The chief executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship , Martin Ede , stated that centres were being closed in spite of the recent tragedy of Ben Silcock , a schizophrenic patient who was mauled by a lion at London Zoo . |
| 24 | In relation to both Willy and Herodotus , Mira sees herself falling into the role of Cassandra who was cursed by Apollo to have her prophecies ignored because she had refused to yield to his desire . |
| 25 | Maha Banat was accused of adultery with Ahmed Hussein al-Zahrani , a Saudi citizen , whom she claims she does not know , and who was sentenced by the same court to three months ' imprisonment and 100 lashes . |
| 26 | The collection , besides its dynastic accumulations , does in fact owe a great deal to an ancestor , the aggressive collector Freiherr von Lassberg ( d. 1855 ) who was fired by distant German history and bought widely after the secularisation of religious institutions in the region of Lake Constance . |
| 27 | If he demanded that an artist was dropped , the artist was dropped , nationwide — until a Texan broadcaster , John Henry Faulk , who was blacklisted by AWARE , brought and won a libel action in which he was awarded the record sum of $3,500,000 after a six-year struggle . |
| 28 | It was a popular game on several of the Hebridean islands and though there were regional variations , this version is from the Rev. N. MacDonald who was recorded by the late Calum lain MacLean of the school of Scottish Studies in 1953 . |
| 29 | In our July 18 issue we published an article about Olympic silver medallist , Linford Christie , which suggested that a few years ago he was a violent troublemaker who was listed by the police as ‘ dangerous ’ . |
| 30 | It shows a street child who was beaten by four Guatemalan police officers in 1990 and later died of his injuries . |