Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] with [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the slides were weakly stained with haematoxylin for one minute before dehydrating and mounting in Xam ( BDH , Poole ) . |
| 2 | The sweat was dripping from her face on to her breasts which were already glistening with water like orb-shaped fruit in the rain . |
| 3 | CLAIMS that waiting list times have been slashed at Bishop Auckland General Hospital were yesterday greeted with scepticism by the town 's MP . |
| 4 | Austen Chamberlain and Walter Long were both treated with respect by Law , tribute to their withdrawal in his favour in 1911 , but they reacted very differently . |
| 5 | They were both charged with assault on a constable in the execution of his duty . |
| 6 | Miyazawa 's recent calls for a period of renewed economic growth in Japan and for a cut in Japanese interest rates ( implying a weakening of the yen and a growth in the trade surplus ) were also received with concern in the USA . |
| 7 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 8 | The numbers of missing and of discrepant entries were correlated ( r=0.42 , p<0.05 ) , and both of these were also correlated with variability in peak expiratory flow ; this variability also correlated with missing data . |
| 9 | Other innovations were also approached with circumspection by the BEA headquarters design engineers , even though significant experience of them had been gained both in this country and abroad . |
| 10 | Agu and Hirst were later charged with obstruction of the highway , and the breach of the peace allegation , which was the basis of Agu 's arrest , was quietly forgotten . |
| 11 | Petition-drawers and outdoor proctors were often regarded with distaste by officials , some of whom blamed them for fostering perjury and false cases . |
| 12 | Some writers and journalists ridiculed her appeals , which were often received with hostility by militant students . |
| 13 | Research has revealed that these community action groups were invariably regarded with hostility by Conservative and Labour councils . |
| 14 | If the ostriches were indeed infected with BSE by this route , it would be the first recorded case of the disease being transmitted from cattle to birds [ see Eds passim ] . |
| 15 | The methods sections of the potentially relevant reports were then extracted with reference to results and identifying material ( authors , title , journal , institution , and country of origin ) removed . |
| 16 | Allen , the Vice President , stated that classifications as high , medium or low were then made with respect to each axis on the basis of collective judgement by corporate management . |
| 17 | Manchester City were subsequently charged with misconduct by the Football Association and face a possible fine , or even suspension from next year 's competition . |
| 18 | Some of them , such as the LOGO programming language were specifically designed with education in mind . |
| 19 | He was eventually rewarded with work on a prestigious construction project in New Guinea . |
| 20 | As I shall explain in the next section , this earlier privileging of intellect was intimately connected with resistance to nominalism , and , in the seventeenth century nominalism triumphed . |
| 21 | His face , Stephen noticed , was badly marked with acne as if he were still in his teens , though he was years older than that . |
| 22 | Captivated by Christ and his love she ‘ was greatly moved with love for my fellow Christians that they might know and see what I was seeing , for I wanted to cheer them too ’ . |
| 23 | The selection criteria used were the same for all patients — namely , each patient was individually assessed with respect to general fitness for function of the anal sphincter . |
| 24 | In their most recent study they compared these distant from the tumour with those from histologically normal samples taken within a 1 cm radius of the tumour and founr that regardless of the colonic segment being considered , the proliferative activity in tumour adjacent tissues was generally dampened with respect to that of the more distant specimens . |
| 25 | SAMESH KUMAR , the Birmingham chairman , was yesterday charged with misconduct by the Football Association over the St Andrews ' riot . |
| 26 | THE KEY company in Australian tycoon Alan Bond 's crumbling empire was yesterday threatened with receivership by a rival entrepreneur , John Spalvins , who heads the Adelaide Steamship group . |
| 27 | Even now , local farmers around Axholme regard the ‘ warped land ’ which was deliberately flooded with silt as the best land in the region . |
| 28 | During his session with the unfortunate staff at Caterer and Hotel Keeper he was always wheezing with laughter at something that did not really seem to warrant it . |
| 29 | In spite of those reassurances the end of the contract was still greeted with sadness by the army in Scotland . |
| 30 | The air was still singed with temper at lunchtime . |