Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] had been [verb] with " in BNC.

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1 Beyond him was the blank , windowless side of the house , smooth and flat , as if the row of houses had been sliced with a cheese-cutter .
2 Good courses of ore had been met with in Deep Level , but Leathart pointed out , " the whole of the ground has been more or less worked prior to the present adventurers " .
3 Thousands of people had been presented with an alternative and had decided according to an inner inspiration .
4 Yet , the same Act subjected the bill of lading endorsee ‘ to the same liabilities in respect of such goods as if the Contract contained in the Bill of Lading had been made with himself . ’
5 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 .
6 Hence , in the union ( an area of approximately 21,000 people ) in which the rice-salt solution had been taught , only 6.5% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with this mixture .
7 In a nearby union in which the lobon-gur solution had been taught , 14.9% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with this mixture .
8 The risk of leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma was significantly increased in children whose fathers had been thus monitored : four fathers of cases and three fathers of controls had been issued with monitoring devices before their child 's illness was diagnosed ( relative risk 8.0 , p=0.02 ) , and of these , three fathers of cases and two fathers of controls were monitored before their child 's conception ( relative risk 9.0 , p=0.047 ) .
9 Terminal ileal biopsy specimens were taken at ileocolonoscopy ( four patients ) for patients with longstanding quiescent ulcerative colitis and by the ileostomy of two patients who had a colectomy for UC ( histological reports state that 2 and 4 cm of ileum had been resected with the colectomy ) .
10 To make matters worse any chance of ventilation had been stopped with the use of many pairs of tights or balls of newspaper stuffed into every hole , nook or cranny .
11 On June 7 the government announced that a letter of intent had been signed with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , clearing the way for talks about loans worth US$103,000,000 over the next two years .
12 A series of interviews had been recorded with 94 years old in Wellingborough , probably the oldest member .
13 Perhaps no pictorial revolution of the magnitude and depth of Cubism had been effected with such extreme rapidity , and during the years between 1907 and 1910 every few months had witnessed some radical change in the appearance of Cubist painting .
14 A man accused of raping his wife has been cleared by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court ; it was the first time a man in England had been charged with such an offence .
15 A map and directions from Calais had been provided with our travel documents and the 36 mile drive to Aire-sur-la-Lys where we were staying was remarkably easy .
16 Mr R. Newcombe was pleased to report that agreement in principle had been reached with Mrs Davies for the use of part of her premises in Bull House , Bull Street , Bishop 's Castle as a Bishop 's Castle Railway Museum .
17 And the factory hours and rugby support which militated against soccer in Leeds had been challenged with some success from 1912 to 1914 .
18 It was suggested , for example , that stock was over-valued and that credit notes due to customers had been understated with the effect that whereas the accounts as published had reported profits of £1.3m , they should have reported a loss of approximately £400,000 .
19 The Mail on Sunday had been launched with all sort of fancy design ideas .
20 The tendency for earlier generations to lean so heavily on providence had been connected with the brevity and insecurity of life .
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