Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [vb pp] with [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been inundated with calls from listeners wanting to know where you were . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been inundated with inquiries from the USA . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 11 | Turning to the company cases , the dictum in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 has led to much confusion and complication where those in de facto control of the company have been charged with theft from it . |
| 12 | Most outbreaks have been associated with aerosols from evaporative cooling systems and complex hot water systems . |
| 13 | A small number of people in the UK have been infected with HIV from blood transfusions . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been bombarded with letters from people wanting to know what happens to Tony and Sharon . |