Example sentences of "been [verb] with [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 2 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 3 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 4 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 5 | While Soviet historiography continues to celebrate the revolution as the supreme vindication of Marxism-Leninism , the case has been developed with sufficient scholarly skill to merit new attention . |
| 6 | The shoes had been painted with bold unmixed colours and the best way of translating the sense of that to the painting was to do the same . |
| 7 | Their roots lay deep in the shell-holes and in the earthen barricades which had been erected with such sectarian conviction more than a decade before . |
| 8 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 9 | Bowie was a cautious man and his two previous reports on leukaemia incidence in the county had not been tinged with any anti-nuclear sentiment . |
| 10 | However the necessary ducts have already been installed with all new roads — such as the A74(M) — and to existing roads during overnight maintenance operations . |
| 11 | Since the early 1970s , however , it has been possible to collect bile samples at either endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography or percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography and a few small series of patients have been reported with good diagnostic yields and no falsely positive results . |
| 12 | Mr Portillo has been meeting with two leading Conservative Councillors from Oxfordshire to discuss the impact of the Poll Tax on the County . |
| 13 | John Spearman , Classic FM chief executive , said : ‘ We are very pleased to have been presented with this prestigious award just six months after going on air . |
| 14 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 15 | We need to find people to buy these places so that we can sort of balance the books , but one wonders , you know , could n't something have been done with that empty building for two years while there are folk in the area with nowhere to live . |
| 16 | IN THIS section religious medieval miracles have been incorporated with later supernatural traditions . |
| 17 | But the kudu calf had not been fed with this potential source of infection , which was banned in June 1988 . |
| 18 | Never has the start of a new decade been met with such exciting business opportunities . |
| 19 | ‘ We have been rewarded with significant new business in tableware and giftware and , in particular , the response to our bridal tableware marketing strategy has been very encouraging indeed . |
| 20 | Data have been exchanged with international seismological agencies based in Boulder ( Colorado ) , Newbury ( England ) and Strasbourg ( France ) , and also with Norway and participants in an EC exchange network comprising Ireland , Denmark , The Netherlands , Belgium , Luxembourg , France and Germany . |
| 21 | One lady who 's gone for the 90's set in a big way is Lisa Stansfield — her sleek , kiss-curl style has been replaced with this fabulous mass of casual curls by a stylist in Paris . |
| 22 | After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above . |
| 23 | The five-year project has resulted in a facelift for the line which has been recognised with several national awards . |
| 24 | Second , he turned down a proposal from the Kennedy administration to create a Multilateral Nuclear Force ( MLF ) , in which British and French nuclear forces would have been integrated with some American forces under NATO command . |
| 25 | In a move underlining the prevailing mood of uncertainty , the Supreme Soviet voted to delay the actual exchange of ratification documents with the USA until agreement had been reached with other nuclear republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , namely Byelarus , Kazakhstan and Ukraine , on the status of all former Soviet nuclear forces [ see p. 38890 ] , and until they had given their formal endorsement under the START Lisbon protocol [ see p. 38937 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ The fact that we have now been blessed with two little ones must not blind us to our obligations , nor cause us to lower our standards . ’ |
| 27 | There are some 120 published clinical studies on procaine , yet rarely has pharmacological research been blessed with such endless bickering between opposing camps . |
| 28 | People who are only mildly mentally handicapped may have been born with average mental abilities , in the sense that there was no identifiable problem inherent in the pregnancy or birth . |
| 29 | A corner pub , the Norseman , had been packed with arty young people on the Saturday night . |
| 30 | The exterior portal has been restored with modern sculptural decoration but inside the narthex the original work of 1128–32 survives ; this has three bays and is a very early , typically Burgundian example . |