Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can imagine how severe the reprimand will be for the officer whose disregard of the rules has been decorated with a successful conviction . |
| 2 | After £2,067 had been handed over to the District , branches had been left with a net income of £1,492 , just one pound less than the £1,493 spent on publicity , room rents and other local organisation and administration . |
| 3 | He said his flat on the estate had been robbed by a man whose knees had been smashed with a baseball bat after falling foul of a loan shark . |
| 4 | Typical industries utilizing absorption as a method of odour control are metallurgical industries , plastic/production , waste incineration plants , animal by-product industries , and it is reported that absorption scrubber units have been fitted with a fair degree of success on plant processing meat for pet food manufacture and for the production of animal feedstuffs . |
| 5 | Thirdly , discordant marital relationships have been linked with a raised rate of psychiatric problems in the children ( Rutter , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | These circumstances have been linked with a raised probability that the child will later develop a syndrome labelled ‘ affectionless psychopathy ’ ( Rutter , 1981 ; Wolkind , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | The buttons of her cardigan were correctly done up and the collar flattened neatly , the zip of the skirt was in its proper place at the side and her tattered bedroom slippers had been replaced with a tidy pair of court shoes , the wrong colour for the skirt . |
| 8 | Centres offering Phase 1 Pilots have been provided with a draft catalogue of advanced schemes which gives details of the schemes validated for session 1988–89 . |
| 9 | This is the NRA 's first survey and comparisons have been made with a similar exercise five years ago by the Department of the Environment , Welsh Office and the regional water authorities [ which took into account data recorded in 1980 ] . |
| 10 | On page 110 we 've used them in a wonderful vegetarian Christmas pie , and on page 77 freshly cooked cranberries have been combined with a shop-bought cranberry sauce as a chunky topping for apples to serve with goose . |
| 11 | Various democratic governments have been elected with a mandate to reduce the size of government . |
| 12 | Over the years canal banks have been strengthened with a variety of materials ; brick , stone , timber , concrete and steel . |
| 13 | Since that time the productivity of the top 20 per cent of farmers has been sustained with a continuous record of technical improvement ; about 40 per cent have maintained a level of productivity which enables them to generate an acceptable income ; and a further 40 per cent have continued to produce enough for their own household 's subsistence requirements . |
| 14 | Once his officers had been provided with a comprehensive register of the homages and other obligations of Gascon vassals , Edward could set about the task of governing his duchy with some confidence . |
| 15 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 16 | The Midland Bank 's small business and branch managers have been issued with a business information guide to help them better understand the needs of people wishing to set up a bookshop or specialist comic shop . |
| 17 | following up a subject assessor visit , perhaps where problems have been found with a module and remedies are being discussed ; |
| 18 | This is partly because the textiles and coverings have been treated with a sodium borate solution ( to increase their resistance to fire ) which has had an adverse effect on their appearance , and partly because most of the paintwork needs renewing . |
| 19 | The widespread acceptance of floating exchange rates has been associated with a period of less favourable economic developments , such as massive payments imbalances arising from large but often irregular oil prices increases , declining commodity prices ( which seriously affect less developed economies ) , high interest rates during the 1980s ( which worsened the debt position of many countries ) , and lower average economic growth compared with the Bretton Woods era . |
| 20 | The Aasen band provided music , the local choir , including young children , sang for us , Trygve Lian , chairman of the organising committee , presented a slide show of local views and after all the veterans had been introduced with a brief synopsis of their parts in the raids , speeches and presentations were made . |
| 21 | These medicated , double action cleansing pads have been designed with a rough side to clear away dead skin cells and unblock pores plus a smooth side to clean and remove oil and dirt . |
| 22 | Intent on fattening its meagre $20m Italian business — in a total computer market of between $20,000m and $30,000m — EDS has been negotiating with a number of companies , including Rome-based Database Informatica SpA , Italy 's third-largest systems house after Finsiel and Olivetti Information Systems , say sources at EDS and Database Informatica . |
| 23 | given to those on state pensions has been met with a resounding raspberry ? |
| 24 | James Harper , defending , said Colling believed his drinks had been spiked with a narcotic substance which caused his violent behaviour . |
| 25 | Similar results have been observed with a ts -mutation in the bacteriophage Mu c repressor [ 38 ] . |
| 26 | Beyond him was the blank , windowless side of the house , smooth and flat , as if the row of houses had been sliced with a cheese-cutter . |
| 27 | He was in shirtsleeves , and the shirt did not fit him very well , the buttoned cuffs hanging down over his wrists , like a schoolboy 's whose clothes had been purchased with a view to his ‘ growing into ’ them . |
| 28 | Those boys have been playing with a short mallet since they were two . |
| 29 | For critical missions a single resistor value can be entered , and the package will suggest what value(s) to parallel if , say , a production run of PTH PCBs have been fitted with a 17.4k precision resistor which should have been 14.7k … |
| 30 | ULSTER students have been saddled with a new course — in horse sense . |