Example sentences of "they [was/were] [vb pp] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were displayed with an almost subversive indifference to the impression made upon the spectator . |
| 2 | Kraak also showed that maps illustrating the values of a variable in 2D shaded polygons best formed a ‘ map-to-see ’ when they were displayed with the variable visualized in 3D . |
| 3 | They were posessed with the fear the world would end around the year 1500 . |
| 4 | [ J ] oined to political agencies , … [ newspapers ] augmented their own status … they were invested with a new validity , and an implicit authority . ’ |
| 5 | The Sabbath meals , of course , were family occasions also , but they were invested with the day 's solemnity and holiness . |
| 6 | Moreover , the likely rental would not even match the interest Mr and Mrs P would save if the house were sold and they were credited with the net proceeds of sale . |
| 7 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 8 | No one could have staged the now infamous Sheffield rally , a turning point in the campaign , unless they were imbued with a belief that electors would appreciate being treated as mere objects to be manipulated . |
| 9 | They were cut with a sharp , scalpel-like instrument , in or beside their sexual organs . |
| 10 | In the first place they were presented with a riveting demonstration of what a genuinely free press is capable of . |
| 11 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 12 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 13 | The Dutch complained that they had strengthened the hands of the Indonesians : they were presented with a bill by the Dutch for the use of barracks , railroads , and other facilities during their occupation ( which was not paid ) . |
| 14 | They were presented with a case of wine by David Street , Manager , Private Trust and Taxation . |
| 15 | The hapless clients contacted would often buy , believing they were in contact with a hectic dealing room , thinking that they were presented with the investment opportunity of the decade . |
| 16 | They were presented with the Grand Opera House Cup by Mrs Pat Henderson , wife of the Association 's president . |
| 17 | Being driven into one town they were faced with a moving lights message over a bank giving in turn the temperature , date and ‘ Louisiana welcomes British canoeists George and Sylvie . ’ |
| 18 | Unless they were faced with a common enemy , as we shall see , concerted action by the nobility was difficult to achieve . |
| 19 | The new Cabinet could claim that they were faced with a dilemma not of their own making . |
| 20 | Instead , they were faced with a statement from a Scotland Yard spokesman that there was no indication that this was terrorist activity , while the IRA had denied all involvement . |
| 21 | The most serious trouble was in Suffolk , in the cloth-manufacturing area of Lavenham and Sudbury , where the dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk claimed that they were faced with a body of 4,000 men , who alleged that they had no work and did not know how to get their living . |
| 22 | But the owners had to throw them out because they were faced with a huge increase in insurance premiums , up from a $1000 to almost $5000 . |
| 23 | Their trip to Disney World in Florida was cut short after a terrifying ordeal when they were faced with a gang , brandishing a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 24 | That particular stretch of the motorway is in is very very busy , where he stopped was just round a fairly blind right hand bend and traffic was approaching that at their normal lane three speed , and they were faced with a stationery vehicle . |
| 25 | They proved it could be done when they were faced with the task of building a glass conservatory restaurant over the water in the Queen 's Graving Dock underneath the new building . |
| 26 | Girls from the upper classes were brought up to believe ‘ that they were born with a prescriptive right to their social advantages , their graceful culture ’ Hopkins stands very much as representative of the new-style purity feminist . |
| 27 | Within an hour of arrival they were closeted with the permanent secretary , the most senior civil servant , of the Ministry of Agriculture mapping out the ground for a loan from the World Bank to Tanzania which would put $25 million into livestock production , turning ranching and the export of beef into a major national industry . |
| 28 | When I returned them they were exchanged with no problem at all . ’ |
| 29 | They were examined with a semiautomated morphometric technique with high specificity by a single , blinded observer using a digitising board , and anterior , central , and posterior heights were recorded . |
| 30 | They could not have been more than fifteen , but their faces were heavily coated with cosmetics , and they were dressed with a tawdry precociousness which allowed no illusions as to their innocence . |