Example sentences of "with [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had all been inhibited from plain speaking by the lavish hospitality , the fresh scampi with avocado had been too ‘ mucked about ’ for her taste , while that dreadful black man had insisted on telling her all about his times in and out of the ring with ‘ Big Frank ’ ( ‘ a lovely suit of clothes ’ ) , interrupting himself only to raise his glass of pink wine to Sir Ralph who had , in his opinion , ‘ done us proud ’ . |
| 2 | Many parents share them ; but the defiance and indiscipline ( and other disturbing manifestations ) associated with adolescence have been much exaggerated . |
| 3 | Around a hundred and fifty animals which were threatened with slaughter have been saved . |
| 4 | Two brothers who worked with asbestos have been awarded a hundred and forty thousand pounds compensation for lung damage . |
| 5 | For a year , an open breach with Tzani-bey had been denied him . |
| 6 | Intellectual fascination with communism had been a feature of the 1930s ( naturally enough given the gloom and despair of that period ) and Communist Party membership surged during the war in response to admiration for the Russian military effort . |
| 7 | The controversial policy of gassing entire badger populations known to be infected with TB has been and gone , and today two lines of research are being followed . |
| 8 | Work on private houses in the city is revealing a number of elaborate structures : a sixth-century house with peristyle has been located between the theatre and the Temple of Apollo whose decorations include opus sectile paving , wall painting and a second order of Ionic columns . |
| 9 | The Pope of the day had visited Clonmacnoise in 1979 , and a dismal pavilion with throne had been made in his honour . |
| 10 | Those whose main contact with violence has been through television or the cinema may think that in real life , just as in films , the hero or heroine 's story ends when their ordeal is over . |
| 11 | Certainly , it may be admitted that as a consequence of challenges to humanism , the overt force of the national concept within English studies has been diminished ( but far from extinguished ) , and the space for a new and valuable concern with methodology has been opened up . |
| 12 | Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout . |
| 13 | Crews from four fire stations threatened with closure have been holding a demonstration against the plans . |
| 14 | With turnover having been so sluggish for two years some works at the Biennale had been déjà vu at other fairs . |
| 15 | All this , and the sudden materialisation of a mother who fulfilled all her formless dreams , seemed to Martha confirmation that her discontent with life in the valley with Nana had been justified . |
| 16 | It was also pointed out that there were cuts in the community care , in particular the home help budget , with home helps being restricted in the chores that they are allowed to carry out by law . |
| 17 | In the case of Irish nationalism a specific relationship with catholicism has been formulated . |
| 18 | This phenomenon was not new ; in Haxey 's Case ( 1387 ) and Strode 's Case ( 1512 ) the privilege to say what one liked in Parliament with impunity had been denied but then conceded by the Crown . |
| 19 | Indeed , the interaction of NC protein with RNA has been shown to be indispensable for the life cycle of the retrovirus , as NC protein promotes the dimerization of the genomic RNA and the hybridization of the tRNA primer to the PBS ( 8–13 ) . |
| 20 | A minimum complete three day stool collection with homogenisation has been shown to be necessary to minimise variation and most previous studies , with few exceptions , have not done this . |
| 21 | The night with Roman had been unforgettable . |
| 22 | Her parting exchange with Rain had been less than friendly . |
| 23 | Mr John Gummer , the Agriculture Minister , said yesterday that swift action was taken last weekend after the Dutch authorities informed him that tonnes of cattle feed contaminated with lead had been shipped to Britain . |
| 24 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |
| 25 | The importance of knowing the dose equivalence of β 2 agonists is highlighted by the recent experience in New Zealand , where the excess mortality associated with fenoterol has been attributed to marketing of a metered dose inhaler that contained a two to four times higher relative dose of fenoterol compared with salbutamol . |
| 26 | Earlier this week the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed that Dutch eggs known to be infected with salmonella had been allowed on sale in the UK . |
| 27 | The variations in gas yield and composition with maturity have been determined for Palaeozoic and Tertiary coals using data obtained from laboratory heating experiments . |
| 28 | If a slat becomes loose within a panel , spray with water to make is more flexible , press flat then use galvanised nails to anchor the slat between the vertical side battens . |
| 29 | The arrangement Sting had signed with Virgin had been for a 50–50 split , rising to 60–40 in Sting 's favour after two years . |
| 30 | The attitude of the judiciary towards adoption with contact has been inconsistent ; hence the need for greater legal clarity . |