Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] with [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A world famous fashion house recently found that their entire production of a line of woollen garments were infested with the larvae of the clothes moth , just before they were due to be sent to the retail outlets . |
| 2 | The war was an anxious time , for the daily newspapers were filled with the lists of men killed in the battles in France , and we lived in daily dread of the routine telegram from the War Office . |
| 3 | Gate takings from designated provincial matches were being given to the Patriotic Fund , the first lists of killed and wounded were being published , and , as the season drew to a close , newspaper pages were filled with the photographs of the casualties from Gallipoli , New Zealand 's bloody initiation into modern warfare . |
| 4 | The monthly tests were designed with the demands of the scholarship exam in mind but Alfie , with his severe special needs , did not achieve a single mark in any test during the three years . |
| 5 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
| 6 | The panels were decorated with the portraits of the twelve Marshals of the First Empire , in their splendid uniforms ; the tall windows were hung with red velvet draperies with golden fringes and they seemed but tiny openings in the enormous room . |
| 7 | The other three were caught with the joints in their hands . |
| 8 | In Britain , two major religious sites were connected with the spas at Bath and Buxton . |
| 9 | Thus , Barker ( 1984 ) , in her study of the Moonies , gave a questionnaire similar to that which she had given to the Moonies to a group of people who were matched with the Moonies with respect to sex , age , and background . |
| 10 | General analyses of DNA and protein sequences were made with the programs of the UWGCG ( 22 ) . |
| 11 | Her limbs were wracked with the aches of her first trip outside since the bluelight had punctured her brain , and he was whole and strong . |
| 12 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |
| 13 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |
| 14 | This belief was fostered by the churches , the floors and walls of which were incised with the records of those who had gone before , but it was expressed positively in the family . |
| 15 | Even for most of the 1950s contact was minimal , although under the San Francisco peace Treaty agreements were reached with the countries of Southeast Asia concerning Japanese reparation payments . |
| 16 | Reverse-transcribed PCR ( RT-PCR ) was done with serial dilutions of LC and KC RNA and the amounts of E-cadherin PCR products were compared with the amounts of I-A α -chain and K1 PCR products in each sample . |
| 17 | Paykel ( 1979 ) describes his research in New Haven in which the life experiences of 185 depressed patients receiving hospital treatment were compared with the experiences of a random sample of the same number of adults in the general population over a six month period . |
| 18 | The percentages of certain socially significant variables in Sue 's speech were compared with the percentages in the speech of her customers , who came from a wide social spectrum . |
| 19 | In a pilot trial the results of treatment with homoeopathy in a group of patients were compared with the results of aspirin treatment in a slightly smaller , but otherwise similar group . |
| 20 | Tests on families living within three miles of the tanker wreck , at Sumburgh , were compared with the results of tests carried out on people living 60 miles away in the north mainland . |
| 21 | The results obtained for each question in test GT4 were compared with the results from the same question when used in APU surveys . |
| 22 | To understand why this is the case the ratings from Study 3 were compared with the results from the Groeger and Chapman study , see Table 5.2 . |
| 23 | The lands ruled by the Yek were dotted with the traces of a Second Empire civilisation . |
| 24 | Their store rooms were crammed with piles of objects , from furniture to fencing , and some of the corridors were blocked with the mounds of things they had made over the years . |
| 25 | Although it seemed trivial to high minded folk , like Deputy Matron and Sister Tutor who were burdened with the difficulties of their office , these concerts were so important . |
| 26 | In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid . |
| 27 | When the technical skills of the big-budge filmmakers were combined with the ideas of those working at a lower level , the result was the possibility of a thriving national cinema . |
| 28 | Detailed administrative and procedural arrangements were left with the officers of the Board and the District and , at last , Jacques was invited to attend subsequent meetings of the Cambridge Board pending his nomination as a WEA member . |
| 29 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 30 | Yet pearls did not feature prominently in Egyptian jewellery until the country was conquered by the Persians during the fifth century B.C. and direct links were established with the fisheries of the Persian Gulf . |