Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of looking angry , she realised , the dark eyes had kindled with fresh amusement . |
| 2 | The other parties had met with mixed success and it was obvious that the enemy were mounting far stronger guards on their airfields . |
| 3 | In early 1939 , Lord Hailey had voiced fears that ‘ the problem would frankly become unmanageable ’ , but his appeals to the government to support the refugee cause with public funds had met with blank refusal . |
| 4 | Thus even if separate communities had begun with similar ways , it is likely that the processes of structuration would lead to divergence over time . |
| 5 | He made the point that , whilst the mail order companies had lived with bad debt for years , for such as the building societies it was a new phenomenon . |
| 6 | Leading separatists had met with Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar in Delhi on April 17 and 19 ; on April 20 it was announced that a large number of Sikh youths imprisoned for minor offences would be released . |
| 7 | Stations became associated with certain products : Dehiwala for fish , Dodanduwa for plumbago and coir rope , Ambawela for vegetables . |
| 8 | Tedjini had met with Marchand during a brief visit to Paris on that day , but the report of his resignation from the HCS was immediately denied by the Algerian ambassador in Paris . |
| 9 | Workers would probably have been less inclined to support them if their protests had met with reasoned discussion rather than tear gas . |
| 10 | Everything about her — her face , her clothes and the room in which they were sitting — was pale , as if the colours had faded with frequent washing . |
| 11 | At a meeting in Nairobi , the Kenyan capital , UN officials had agreed with Sudanese government and SPLA representatives on the transporting of relief supplies to the government-held town of Juba , 120 km north of the border with Uganda , by river barge . |
| 12 | All these patients had presented with rectal discharge or bleeding , nine also had diahorrhoea and two had obstructive symptoms . |
| 13 | The aggressive marketing of seats to foreign cosmonauts on short duration Soyuz flights to the Mir space station in order to recoup some of the costs [ see pp. 37437 ; 37932 ; 38219 ] was also unpopular among many officials involved in the space programme ; they felt that it devalued the space programme at a time when the Zenit and Energia super boosters remained grounded with technical problems [ see p. 37797 ] and the first manned mission of the Soviet Buran shuttle had been postponed , at least to 1993 . |
| 14 | According to the reports the government forces had acted with great ruthlessness and had executed large numbers of guerrillas and civilians . |
| 15 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 16 | He had decided , as advised , to plead guilty and proceedings had moved with dizzying speed . |
| 17 | President Mugabe took office in the aftermath of a civil war in which both sides had behaved with appalling brutality . |
| 18 | Concern for the religious and moral habits of the labouring poor and associated fear of public disorder among the uneducated masses had combined with philanthropic belief in the intrinsic value of education to bring the government to subsidize and later to supervise private provision , beginning in 1833 . |
| 19 | He had been wearing his turned-down wellington boots and long rubber apron , and the gold in his teeth had flashed with reflected sunlight . |
| 20 | Three visits from her husband had helped , perhaps ( the first in the small hours of the Sunday morning , two hours after his release from custody ) , but some slight complications had arisen with continued internal bleeding , and she had become deeply and embarrassingly conscious of how she must appear to everyone whenever she smiled . |
| 21 | In previous years , a series of reports had dealt with higher-level full-time courses , so that the Hudson Committee 's work would complete the review of the whole pattern of agricultural education . |
| 22 | Visible clusters of epithelial cells were present by day 2 ; the attached epithelial cells looked flattened with prominent nuclei ( Fig 1A ) . |
| 23 | Was it not true , though , that the Liberal Democrats had voted with Labour in five out of every six divisions in the last Parliament ? |