Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] been [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the customer feels that her request or complaint has been dealt with pleasantly and fairly , she is likely to come back again and make further purchases . |
| 2 | Insight into abnormalities of transit and pressure activity in constipation or diarrhoea has been obtained with these techniques . |
| 3 | As regards the physical limitations in food supplies , there seems to be general scientific agreement that this does not constitute the real constraint … the vague counter argument that more intensive cultivation will ruin the soil is hardly convincing in view of the fact that soil has been farmed with increasing intensity in Western Europe for about 2000 years and there is still no sign that it is exhausted . |
| 4 | A general strike had already taken place in July in response to a government announcement that agreement had been reached with the IMF on conditions for a standby loan which sources in the capital , Santo Domingo , described as " one of the most drastic programmes ever contemplated by the IMF " . |
| 5 | Ensure that agreement has been reached with the libraries about making documents available for consultation before this facility is publicised . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fortunately , Dod and Chase had been provided with camping stools and although Dod 's creaked a bit under his weight , it did mean they stayed roughly in the same place . |
| 8 | Old age and retirement have been associated with poverty throughout history . |
| 9 | Models of acute pain and inflammation have been associated with increased production of dynorphin and dynorphin applied directly to the spinal cord causes hyperalgesia . |
| 10 | Express mention of the beneficial owner covenants will imply on the part of the assignor that the terms of the lease with regard to maintenance , decoration and repair have been complied with ; this may not be so especially if the husband has been absent from the property for some time ( see generally Butler v Mountview Estates [ 1951 ] 2 KB 563 ) . |
| 11 | Rejection of the physically disabled is not uncommon , for disfigurement and malformation have been associated with evil in earlier , superstitious times . |
| 12 | Reduced growth in fetal life and infancy has been linked with an increased risk of developing impaired glucose tolerance in adult life . |
| 13 | CONCERTED efforts to improve health and safety have been rewarded with an accident-free period of 100 days at Courtaulds Packaging company Soplaril . |
| 14 | His portrait and chair have been garlanded with marigolds and strewn with crimson rose petals . |
| 15 | And Ace had been preoccupied with Jan . |
| 16 | Texture and shine has been achieved with an application of styling spray before styling and wax after styling . |
| 17 | A Traditionally mature , full-bodied red wines such as Claret and Port have been drunk with cheese to round off a meal . |
| 18 | However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology . |
| 19 | In a move underlining the prevailing mood of uncertainty , the Supreme Soviet voted to delay the actual exchange of ratification documents with the USA until agreement had been reached with other nuclear republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , namely Byelarus , Kazakhstan and Ukraine , on the status of all former Soviet nuclear forces [ see p. 38890 ] , and until they had given their formal endorsement under the START Lisbon protocol [ see p. 38937 ] . |
| 20 | typesize and layout have been chosen with a view to maintaining the flow of reading |
| 21 | The assurance was given ; a special committee to plan the nurses ' home had already begun its work , and agreement had been reached with Hackney Hospital for amalgamation of the two nurse-training schools . |
| 22 | The former Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan is planning several projects to modernise its telecommunications system and agreement has been reached with Turkey for the installation of a 200-line telex exchange , and NEC Corp and Mitsui & Co are working to modernise existing telecommunications in the country ; the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications is also looking into buying in payphones that will be able to handle international calls . |
| 23 | Other workers have also found steroids to be of benefit in fibrotic overlap syndromes , and cyclophosphamide has been used with success to suppress fibrosis affecting the thyroid , face and orbit . |
| 24 | But interest has been re-awakened with the discovery of this graveyard at Asthall near Burford in Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | But interest has been re-awakened with the discovery of this graveyard at Asthall near Burford in Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | Huxley , the exponent of laboratory physiology , won a great victory over Owen when he contrived to get a statue of Darwin placed on the main staircase of the Natural History Museum ; but justice has been done with the passage of time , and Owen 's statue is now in pride of place in his building . |
| 27 | In many series , smoking and/or alcohol has been associated with gastric cancer , and especially with cancer of the cardia . |
| 28 | Since prosopagnosia has been associated with right hemisphere damage on purely clinical grounds ( Hécaen and Angelergues , 1962 ; Warrington and James , 1967 ; but see Cole and Perez-Cruet , 1964 ) it is reasonable to interpret the post-mortem findings as confirming this association . |
| 29 | Relaxation or withdrawal of treatment before mid-childhood has been associated with a further decline in intellectual ability . |