Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] with [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plaid Cymru president and Caernarfon MP Dafydd Wigley said : ‘ The Liberal Democrats run the risk of being treated with contempt by the electorate if they decide to prop up such an unpopular Tory regime . ’ |
| 2 | A variety of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin , Sousa chinensis , is being threatened with extinction by the construction of Hong Kong 's new airport , just as it is being recognized as a distinct species . |
| 3 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 4 | AIR France has dropped an advertising campaign which poked fun at an English town after being bombarded with protests by furious residents . |
| 5 | The £2.5 million England striker , speaking for the first time since being charged with misconduct by the Football Association over the incident , said the furore surrounding his disciplinary problems was ‘ getting beyond a joke ’ . |
| 6 | Despite their protestations of loyalty , Methodists could not escape being associated with Jacobinism by some . |