Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows . |
| 2 | The controversy received a new lease of life in March 1983 when the Irish Farmers Monthly published a confidential , internal IBM report and claimed that up to 2,000 acres of agricultural land near the mine were so badly contaminated with lead , zinc and arsenic that they were unsuitable for agriculture . |
| 3 | Not all religious sites were so openly associated with water , however , despite its popularity in Celtic theology , but caution is necessary when trying to identify religion as the primary function for a settlement 's foundation and continued existence , as so many small towns possessed at least one temple . |
| 4 | The graves had to be searched for in what looked like a clearing in a pine wood , they were so thickly overgrown with grass and heather . |
| 5 | Martha could feel now that her toes were not only wet with sweat but also sticky with blood . |
| 6 | Fitzgerald 's plates were thus tactfully laden with theory , and contrast with other flower pictures which show decorative insects , or insect plates which show food plants . |
| 7 | Her extraordinarily beautiful and intelligent eyes were always carefully lined with kohl . |
| 8 | The hedgerows on either side were still thickly covered with snow and , beyond them , the fields lay iron hard under sheets of ice . |
| 9 | Seen from close-to , the columns were peeling ; they were also heavily stained with pigeon crap . |
| 10 | That drudgery could have been transformed overnight by the provision of pithead baths for the men , and for their clothes , which were often so laden with dust that , as one old miner recalled , " I used to bray my gear against the wall " . |
| 11 | These questions were fairly easily answered with respect to Lévi-Strauss . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , at the start of the second interferon course , the serum HBeAg and HBV-DNA levels were significantly lower compared with baseline values . |
| 13 | The second or third lots of clients sent along by Pinkie , an insurance broker and his wife , who wanted somewhere to give occasional parties in summer , at high tide only , were very much taken with Dreadnought . |
| 14 | The Russians undertook to protect their new vassals , but were often not disposed to or were too poorly endowed with manpower to help when asked to do so . |
| 15 | Our most important finding , however , was that age was only weakly associated with mortality , even after adjustment for the severity of comorbid conditions . |
| 16 | And it was sectional organisations such as these which best survived the vicissitudes of the next twenty years , though Wilson 's own creation was bankrupt by 1894 and was only subsequently revived with difficulty . |
| 17 | Its flat-coiled shell was not completely filled with flesh as is that of a snail , but had a hinder end walled off to form a gas chamber . |
| 18 | This development , privatized using an Urban Development Grant in the early 1980s , was not originally associated with slum clearance and was actually more expensive per unit than the traditional housing being built at the same time . |
| 19 | Retractions were sensitive but not specific , and grunting was not significantly associated with hypoxaemia in these newborn infants . |
| 20 | We do not believe that cholestasis is an important factor in the increase in laminin despite the significant correlation found with bilirubin and alkaline phosphatase , because alkaline phosphatase activity was not significantly associated with laminin in the multivariate analysis . |
| 21 | Blood flow was not significantly correlated with age or length of time since surgery in any of the groups . |
| 22 | Mrs Dale 's Diary , which ran for twenty-one years on BBC radio from 1948 , was always gently laced with humour ; its rural rival , The Archers , which began two years later , is a broadly similar amalgam of the playful and the sentimental ; and between them , in a sub-literary sort of way , they illustrate the power of a revived realism in post-war Britain : quite different from the grand-opera histrionics of American TV soaps like Dallas or Dynasty , which are scarcely funny at all , at least in intention , and wildly unrealistic as images of how the rich in the United States really live . |
| 23 | With the development of Imperial architecture and the need for large public gatherings in baths and basilicas the space was more often vaulted with brick and concrete . |
| 24 | Haematocrit , although associated with comorbidity , was also independently associated with survival . |
| 25 | Pound was now also afflicted with guilt and remorse at the shape his life had taken , and Eliot did his best to comfort him . |
| 26 | The dead Jewish convoy commander had given his name to the land where Mrs Zamzam 's village once stood , an Israeli hamlet that was now periodically threatened with rocket-fire from Palestinian guerrillas , perhaps the same men who as children walked with Mrs Zamzam from Um Al-Farajh after the ambush on the Jewish convoy . |
| 27 | Our spare room ( with the toys in ) was unfortunately impenetrably filled with sitting-room furniture ( the sitting-room is awaiting redecoration ) , but the boys managed to entertain themselves in the empty sitting-room instead . |
| 28 | He removed the bandage that Luke had put around her arm — already it was quite heavily stained with blood . |
| 29 | Additionally , this new public was indeed already enculturated with animal illustrations through graphic reproduction in popular sources . |
| 30 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |