Example sentences of "were [verb] [conj] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the Mughal gardens were uprooted and replaced with sterile English lawns . |
| 2 | Her nails were torn and rimmed with black , as filthy as the rest of her . |
| 3 | The reasons for this phenomenon are varied : the tightening bonds of serfdom and the greater degree of social regimentation introduced by Peter the Great meant that a number of previously innocent practices ( tree-felling , salt-gathering , trespass , begging , vagrancy , and so on ) were criminalized and punished with hard labour and exile ; popular protest against the proliferating powers of the state in the form of minor revolts , mass insurgencies ( for example , Bulavin , Pugachev ) , large-scale banditry and escalating rates of petty crime were similarly dealt with ; the abolition of capital punishment for criminal offences in 1753 led to its replacement with ‘ civil execution ’ ( public flogging and mutilation followed by perpetual katorga ) ; and laws passed in 1766 and 1769 changed the usual place of penal servitude from Rogervik and other locations in European Russia to the silver mines and factories around Nerchinsk . |
| 4 | Indeed , there are groups whose very power in Britain might be jeopardized if they were seen as identified with specific political parties . |
| 5 | The adults , in the way that grown-ups have , forgot that my ears were listening and talked with bated breath of the murder that had taken place on those very sands earlier that year . |
| 6 | Relations between the UK and Spain had become strained following an incident on June 30 , 1989 , in which four Spanish customs officers were arrested and charged with illegal entry and possession of firearms after they had entered the territory in hot pursuit of three alleged Gibraltarian tobacco smugglers . |
| 7 | The trust , a charity which helps those who describe themselves as ‘ New Age Travellers ’ , plans to appeal against the convictions and average fines of £50 plus costs imposed on 65 of the 130 would-be visitors who were arrested and charged with public order offences . |
| 8 | Two young men were arrested and charged with public order offences . |
| 9 | Two young men called Murphy were arrested and charged with public order offences . |
| 10 | On Jan. 28 Eugene Terreblanche , leader of the AWB , and nine other senior members of the organization were arrested and charged with public violence arising from a riot on Aug. 9 , 1991 , outside a hall where President de Klerk was addressing a meeting [ see p. 38376 ] . |
| 11 | Because these two constructions are at different levels , the existing fixed and ‘ hopper-vent ’ windows of eight lights were removed and replaced with sash-pattern frames incorporating top-hung , open-out casements , boarded panels infilling the gap between the head of the lower-storey vent and the sill of the upper-storey window ( Plate 35 ) . |
| 12 | As far as possible , her Scottish attendants were removed and replaced with French ones . |
| 13 | With the exception of the stained-glass east window , all the original windows of diamond-shaped leaded lights set in wrought-iron frames were removed and replaced with purpose-made steel frames containing simple rectangular side-hung casements . |
| 14 | During the course of an hour or so these were removed and replaced with remarkable regularity . |