Example sentences of "be [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 There are several black children who have grown up in children 's homes with purely white staff , and others who have been placed with white families who are isolated geographically and have no contact with black people ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 134 ) .
33 Horticultural publication has always been treated with low priority compared to taxonomic research at RBGE .
34 They will also completely cover up imperfections , have good sound and heat insulation properties and , if they 've been treated with protective spray , will last for years and years — long after paint has become chipped and discoloured , and paper faded .
35 Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home .
36 We propose that inflammatory bowel disease patients who are or have been treated with systemic steroids and have articular complaints are investigated for osteonecrosis preferably by magnetic resonance scanning .
37 As the science of meteorology has advanced towards the computerised forecasts we receive today , this folklore has been treated with increasing suspicion , or forgotten .
38 The militia lost heart at this news ; they had already been on duty for a month , and had been treated with extraordinary meanness by the citizens they were defending , who , they complained , ‘ would not even allow straw for the poor men to lay upon ’ while ‘ some were eight , some seven , and all six nights and days under arms upon the walls ’ .
39 In this study , the usage rates for the lobon-gur solution were found to be poor , ( corroborating the findings of the programme monitors mentioned above ) ; less than 10% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with oral rehydration therapy .
40 This group included 12 patients who have previously been treated with oral antibiotics for various reasons , six patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease , six patients with associated inflammatory disease of the oesophagous and/or stomach and/or duodenum .
41 Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) .
42 RECENTLY I have been dragged , most unwillingly , into a ludicrous debate about whether hi-fi systems sound better if the room , records and electronics have been treated with coloured inks to convert the adverse effects of the gravitational field of the Earth into beneficial effects .
43 The stone free interval was greater , however , in patients whose primary gall stones had been dissolved with chenodeyxholic acid ( median 14 : range 1–80 months ) than in those who had been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid ( median 4 : 1–24 ) .
44 Patients who joined the study between 1981 and 1985 tended to have been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid as it had become widely available at that time and was considered to be the oral bile acid treatment of choice for gall stone dissolution .
45 When her body was discovered on waste ground in Hertfordshire her neck had been crushed with great force .
46 The fabric crumbled instantly in the hot dry air , leaving only a dangling mesh where some threads had been plaited with fine gold wire .
47 Thirty four cases have been diagnosed with asymptomatic polyps at an average age of 21.2 years ( range 9–42 ) .
48 SIR , — Dr Jha and colleagues ( May 1 , p 1116 ) report antibodies against human papillomavirus ( HPV ) 16 E7 peptide ( originally reported by Mueller et al ) among women who had been diagnosed with cervical carcinoma on average 4 years before being contacted for donation of a serum sample .
49 It is questionable whether the study of patients with a history of having been diagnosed with cervical cancer can form the basis for conclusions about the seroepidemiology of this disease .
50 As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera .
51 The limitations of QACs are of less significance when they are compounded with other products with which they can exert a synergistic effect .
52 In Israel , however , a statement made during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem national shrine to Jewish victims of the Nazi holocaust declared : " We are filled with deep anxiety since it was a united Germany , under the Nazi rule , which brought upon the Jewish people the most horrendous tragedy of this generation . "
53 The larvae are unique in that hey are present in fresh faeces , are characteristically sluggish , and their intestinal cells are filled with dark brown food granules ( Fig. 21 ) .
54 Apart from a mettlesome Emilia in Gisella Pasino the smaller roles are filled with indifferent singers .
55 The glass vitrines are filled with small ornaments , and the two console tables have elephant-tooth tops .
56 If they are filled with progressive rubbish , they should demand from the headmaster and governors that they should return to traditional structured learning so that their children will have a fair chance .
57 When ripe these pear-shaped fungi are filled with dust-like spores which pour out of the small central opening at the slightest movement .
58 I have christened her the Blessed Dawg and her large brown eyes are filled with sorrowful compassion , her wrinkled forehead , which was bequeathed by her bloodhound ancestors , is the very epitome of worried concern .
59 It also possesses a circular wreath as one of its concentric bands , and the spandrels of the arrangement are filled with graceful acanthus sprays .
60 It is increasingly difficult to survive in the countryside and women 's daily lives are filled with devastating insecurity .
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