Example sentences of "[vb base] been [vb pp] with [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been inundated with calls from listeners wanting to know where you were . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been deluged with stories about the American nuclear industry over the past few years . |
| 3 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 4 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been left with egg on my face . |
| 6 | She wished he would stop talking for now he was saying , ‘ I 've been associated with Harrods of London for many years . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been inundated with complaints from local people who feel this ‘ over-the-top ’ action will only play into the hands of loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 8 | Sue Nicholson , for the RAC , said : ‘ We have been inundated with complaints from members that the testers are revving their car engines to the limit and possibly causing damage … |
| 9 | Opportunities for major fund-raising from other sources are very limited : partly because trust funds usually direct their resources to new short-term projects rather than to longestablished work , and partly because such trusts have been inundated with requests from other agencies suffering from withdrawal of Local Authority grants . |
| 10 | A group of refugees rescued from the war in Bosnia and brought to this country have been inundated with offers of help and accommodation.The six families were rescued by a headmaster , who saw pictures of the war on television and decided that he had to do something to help . |
| 11 | ACCOUNTANTS handling the liquidation of a North-East nursing home company have been inundated with offers for the business . |
| 12 | Apparently the band members have been inundated with mail from the mothers of female fans complaining that their music is Satanic and they do not wish their daughters to have anything more to do with them . |
| 13 | RSPCA staff say they have been inundated with inquiries about the dogs at Sadberge kennels following an article in The Northern Echo . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been inundated with inquiries from the USA . |
| 15 | New staff in the main , have been connected with care in community , and you 've heard really Mr explain to you already what they 're doing . |
| 16 | Extensive areas of forests in Czechoslovakia have been damaged with deaths in widespread areas of the mountainous Krokonose Park on the Polish-Czech border , where precipitation reportedly averages pH 3.8 ( over 60 times more acidic than average unpolluted precipitation ) , and in Krusne Park on the East German-Czech border . |
| 17 | Roderick believes that women obviously have a head start as they have been reared with values of nurturing , partnership and growth . |
| 18 | The front pages of official newspapers have been filled with tales of glorious national triumphs , offset by with a smattering of gloom from the West — unemployment in the US , drugs in Britain , and so on . |
| 19 | Thousands of pages have been filled with theories on how to rear your offspring . |
| 20 | Remarkable results have been achieved with children from mainstream and special schools when the teaching of mathematics has been opened up in order to allow pupils to find their own strategies and solutions to problems . |
| 21 | The concurrent and predictive validity of the BPVT is based mainly on the extensive research which has been conducted with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test ( PPVT ) , and particularly the high correlations obtained when scores of the PPVT have been compared with scores from standardised intelligence tests . |
| 22 | Derived from the above is the transverse Young 's modulus and Poisson 's ratio in the transverse plane These formulae and some others have been compared with measurements of the elastic moduli of a block copolymer showing hexagonal symmetry ( Arridge & Folkes 1972 ) . |
| 23 | In the space of four weeks , not only has the car been broken into , but the Health Centre has been robbed of computer hardware for our new cardiovascular screening programme , I have been threatened with violence in my consulting-room for refusing to prescribe opiates and my home has been burgled at 5.00 am by a seventeen-year-old wielding a club hammer . |
| 24 | The only two Hong Kong legislators who consistently dare to speak out , Mr Martin Lee and Mr Szeto Wah , have been threatened with expulsion from the committee now drafting China 's post-1997 Basic Law . |
| 25 | With a few exceptions , such as Liberia under Tubman and Tolbert , and Gabon under Bongo , foreign investors have been regarded with feelings of wariness or hostility . |
| 26 | In addition , in its role as a Designated Research Centre the scope of research has been widened and contacts have been made with researchers in many other countries , including USA , Sweden and France . |
| 27 | Six people have been charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply others.The big fear from police at the moment is availability of cheap automatic weapons from Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | Meanwhile six of the forty nine people arrested have been charged with offences including theft and receiving stolen goods . |
| 29 | At least four people have been charged with offences in relation to the events of July and August . |
| 30 | STAN FLASHMAN 'S Barnet have been charged with misconduct by the FA — just 72 hours before the controversial Underhill chairman goes before a League commission . |