Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence that drug-related corruption had penetrated Venezuelan institutions came with the arrest in June of Adolfo Ramirez Torres , a former governor of the Federal District of Caracas , who was accused of being part of a cocaine smuggling ring . |
| 2 | Determined to defuse the crisis , the Croatian authorities complied with the Presidency 's directive and began a withdrawal on Oct. 3 . |
| 3 | In the dark time of the Sundering when the Dark Elves broke with the people of Ulthuan Tiranoc suffered grievously . |
| 4 | Garside ( 1988 ) has shown how in the period 1919–23 civil servants wrestled with the requirement to indicate action , but without generating demands that could not be satisfied . |
| 5 | The Authority had , however , conceded the central point that responsibility for technical efficiency and financial viability of individual schemes lay with the Area Boards . |
| 6 | These steps complied with the requirements of the instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules to which Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has referred . |
| 7 | Severe seasonal crises went with the advent of motor transport , but the pasteurization of cows ' milk fed to infants and the wider availability of clean drinking water were probably the main causes . |
| 8 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 9 | I had a theory that Hawaiians had the same kind of relationship with the sea as the Australian aborigines had with the land . |
| 10 | These systems interacted with the motor drive such that the ‘ animals ’ exhibited ‘ behaviour ’ , finding their way round obstacles , for example . |
| 11 | The first of these incidents occurred with the attempt to introduce a law on adoption . |
| 12 | Not all foreigners sympathized with the Republic , however . |
| 13 | An understanding of the substances which produced these curious effects came with the advance of chemistry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 14 | Mr Goodstadt says : ‘ Until recently , further opportunities for planting were becoming increasingly restricted to the residue of highly sensitive uplands , where contentious applications conflicted with the interests of wildlife , landscape and water resources . ’ |
| 15 | The interval between the second and third Italian trips coincided with the death of Archbishop Schrattenbach . |
| 16 | The modern treatment of peptic ulcers started with the use of the triterpenoid drug carbenoxolone on the 1960s , following the pioneering work of the late Siegfried Gottfried . |
| 17 | Perhaps some of the most encouraging experimental results started with the work carried out in Switzerland by W. Pelikan and G. Unger , and published in English in 1965 . |
| 18 | Their hunger was hers , their battle-scarred pelts ached with the gashes on her heart . |
| 19 | The story of illuminated trams began with the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 , when the Tramways Department equipped five trams with lights and patriotic slogans to mark the occasion , and operated them after nightfall on a packed Promenade . |
| 20 | About 70 friends travelled with the couple from their home in Pimlico , just north of the Thames , to help the happy couple celebrate in Jersey . |
| 21 | Their small bodies quivered with the exertion . |
| 22 | Instead of starting with the birth of Jesus and going on to his ministry , death and resurrection , the first disciples began with the resurrection and showed how it made sense of the rest . |
| 23 | The narrow , hot streets dinned with the silver bray of trumpets and the shrieks of dying men and women . |
| 24 | The figures relate to 1990 , before the traditional political increases began with the approach of the 1992 election , but the pre-election boost is already being pruned back . |
| 25 | Once more the liveried waiters appeared with the Don Perignon , while the teenage Crown Prince acted as disc jockey on the balcony . |
| 26 | A further significant change in political religious attitudes occurred with the liberalization of legislation prohibiting contraceptives to be bought or sold , or even imported into the state . |
| 27 | Murray 's round blue eyes glistened with the effort of projecting honesty . |
| 28 | One or two anxieties came with the memories . |
| 29 | We went out to take the air in the inner bailey and stood fascinated as four ostlers struggled with the ropes tied to the bridle of a splendid , black war horse . |
| 30 | Gober 's exhibition comprises four rooms wallpapered with the artist 's own designs and filled with the sculptures for which he has become celebrated : several untitled wax legs with candles , the wax hermaphroditic torso , the wedding dress , the bags of cat litter and the drains sunk into the gallery 's walls . |