Example sentences of "[vb past] been [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal , Lord Donaldson MR taking the high ground that the function of the independent judiciary under the rule of law was simply to decide whether there had been compliance with the statute requiring the holding of a ballot , however unpopular the strike might be with the travelling public . |
| 2 | The man in charge of the fund , Brigadier Jimmy Chater , admitted that there had been problems with finding and helping Royal Warwickshire POWs , and agreed that the income from the fund exceeded the benefits paid out . |
| 3 | Last night Airtours admitted there had been problems with the apartments and apologised . |
| 4 | A British Rail spokesperson in York confirmed that there had been problems with the Settle and Carlisle . |
| 5 | In Russia he had been expert with the knout , no less than the sword . |
| 6 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 7 | If the Headmaster had discovered he had been friends with the Bookman all along , he was in deep , deep trouble . |
| 8 | David McKay had lived three cottages up and had been friends with their Pet . |
| 9 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 10 | A Jewish woman Sarah had been friends with , before the war , used to say to her , ‘ When your children are young they tread on your feet . |
| 11 | It had been a bitter pill to swallow , and she had made her feelings plain to the man her husband had been friends with since his childhood . |
| 12 | Asked for her views on the exhibition , one elderly woman who had been friends with many of the Expressionists described it as ‘ both exciting and deeply moving ’ . |
| 13 | Stephen had been friends with her then . |
| 14 | There had been difficulties with local planning officials . |
| 15 | When Dalin and Rust were writing they pointed to a variety of stimuli for change : in the United States it had been competition with the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | A South African foreign affairs spokesman said on Jan. 5 that there had been contacts with Soviet representatives on a regular basis , " for example on the Namibian issue " , and " should we wish to pursue talks we would do so directly " , with no need for Hungarian or any other mediation . |
| 17 | In February 1988 , says WG , Mr Carr told WG 's board that Alkar 's sales for the year to January had been £10.4m with a profit of £2.7m . |
| 18 | There were suggestions that Bond Corporation executives had been under regular surveillance and that there had been interference with telephone communications , Mr Lucas said . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the roof surfaces had been reclad with corrugated iron when the original locally quarried stone slates became unserviceable . |
| 20 | Although there had been correspondence with the Beddington and Wallington Council about the low bridge in Manor Road , Wallington , the new routing avoided that too . |
| 21 | In July 1990 there had been tension with Turkey as Greece contemplated extending its territorial waters from six to 12 miles . |
| 22 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 23 | Both her mother and Lisa had been cross with her ; they both had felt she ought to settle down . |
| 24 | Dame Una Pope-Hennessy ( the formidable mother of James and John Pope-Hennessy and a friend of Ivy and Margaret ) had been cross with a reviewer who had written of her book about jade : ‘ Dame Una skirts gracefully round the subject . ’ |
| 25 | Tranchant , who had been co-owner with Tapie of an electronics firm , Nippon Audio Video System , alleged that Tapie had fraudulantly kept him ignorant of a payment of F13,000,000 which had been made to him by the Japanese company Toshiba when Toshiba bought the company in 1985 . |
| 26 | He had been prodigal with them . |