Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] with [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion was the only subject treated by the Khmer artists of the Angkor period : temples were lavishly embellished with sculptures of gods and goddesses , and bridges represented the rainbows that united people and their gods . |
| 2 | Finally , the slides were weakly stained with haematoxylin for one minute before dehydrating and mounting in Xam ( BDH , Poole ) . |
| 3 | So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors . |
| 4 | All the points of her body that had been pressed against him were suddenly touched with fingers of ice . |
| 5 | The sweat was dripping from her face on to her breasts which were already glistening with water like orb-shaped fruit in the rain . |
| 6 | It is true that the archbishop 's lands were already overstocked with knights in relation to the military service due from them . |
| 7 | These marquees , lined with blue awnings over blue carpeting , were arranged regimentally on either side of grassy alleys that were already adorned with banks of flowers . |
| 8 | They were were usually built with donations from private individuals , many prompted by charitable feelings , others by the belief that education was an antidote to revolution . |
| 9 | All around them benches were quickly filling with ladies in silk gowns , giggling and chattering , who clutched velvet cushions to their bosoms as they simpered past the young men eyeing them . |
| 10 | The blue flames were quickly quenched with buckets of earth by the attendants , who crept back sheepishly , and the driver was soon calmly eating his soup with us again . |
| 11 | CLAIMS that waiting list times have been slashed at Bishop Auckland General Hospital were yesterday greeted with scepticism by the town 's MP . |
| 12 | Controls were further matched with cases for residence in the study area at time of diagnosis . |
| 13 | The author of the Vindiciae similarly asserts that since " none were ever born with crowns on their heads and sceptres in their hands , and [ since ] no man can be a king by himself , nor reign without a people … it must of necessity follow , that kings were at first constituted by the people . " |
| 14 | The windows of the Iranian embassy in Washington were forever hung with pots of caviar and magnums of Don Perignon and the whole town was at this feet — until they were swept by the revolution from under him . |
| 15 | The two other mock-combatants were still tilting with lances of light at the quintains of other drones . |
| 16 | Austen Chamberlain and Walter Long were both treated with respect by Law , tribute to their withdrawal in his favour in 1911 , but they reacted very differently . |
| 17 | They were both charged with assault on a constable in the execution of his duty . |
| 18 | Miyazawa 's recent calls for a period of renewed economic growth in Japan and for a cut in Japanese interest rates ( implying a weakening of the yen and a growth in the trade surplus ) were also received with concern in the USA . |
| 19 | Five of these seven patients were also infected with HDV before transplantation , and recurrent HDV was documented in three . |
| 20 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 21 | The numbers of missing and of discrepant entries were correlated ( r=0.42 , p<0.05 ) , and both of these were also correlated with variability in peak expiratory flow ; this variability also correlated with missing data . |
| 22 | Other innovations were also approached with circumspection by the BEA headquarters design engineers , even though significant experience of them had been gained both in this country and abroad . |
| 23 | Agu and Hirst were later charged with obstruction of the highway , and the breach of the peace allegation , which was the basis of Agu 's arrest , was quietly forgotten . |
| 24 | Petition-drawers and outdoor proctors were often regarded with distaste by officials , some of whom blamed them for fostering perjury and false cases . |
| 25 | Some writers and journalists ridiculed her appeals , which were often received with hostility by militant students . |
| 26 | But his statesmanlike calls for unity among the American people were often combined with appeals to the prejudices of " middle America " . |
| 27 | As a result , the social responsibility theory was born ; newspapers remained the property of their owners , they could still be bought and sold in the marketplace , but owners and newspapers were now credited with obligations to society — obligations to provide information , to allow a diversity of views to be printed , to encourage the best and most professional of journalistic activity so as to pursue truth and knowledge ( Table 2.1 ) . |
| 28 | Research has revealed that these community action groups were invariably regarded with hostility by Conservative and Labour councils . |
| 29 | Between him and Amy Winship , they were well staffed with idiots at the moment . |
| 30 | If the ostriches were indeed infected with BSE by this route , it would be the first recorded case of the disease being transmitted from cattle to birds [ see Eds passim ] . |