Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [vb pp] with [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people .
2 They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people .
3 ‘ I 've been left with egg on my face .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 THE former chairman and vice-chairman of Falkirk Football Club have been charged with fraud by Central Scotland police after an eight-month investigation into the club 's affairs .
11 Both of the Deanses have been charged with fraud in a continuing police investigation into the affairs of the club .
12 The men have been charged with conspiracy to outrage public decency and will appear before Kidderminster magistrates today .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Plans to hold the 1996 World Shark-fishing Championships in Nabru have been greeted with resignation by most people .
16 's sales and marketing director said , ‘ The new mueslis have been greeted with enthusiasm in initial trials with trade customers .
17 It was reported that Johnson Brothers has been repackaged and relaunched with more innovative and modern designs which have been greeted with enthusiasm by the trade .
18 It would restrict actions to existing tort law and would reproduce the problems which have been encountered with liability for omissions .
19 Although US unions have been associated with support for the Democratic Party , the politicians and policies they have backed have by no means been the most socialist of those on offer .
20 This suggestion is supported by studies that show that at least some of the activities of GGF ( and related ) gene products have been associated with expression of the EGF motif alone .
21 Old age and retirement have been associated with poverty throughout history .
22 Abnormalities of electrical control activity have been associated with dysmotility of the gastric antrum , paroxysmally with nausea and vomiting and persistently with chronic intractable vomiting .
23 Rejection of the physically disabled is not uncommon , for disfigurement and malformation have been associated with evil in earlier , superstitious times .
24 Secondly , high doses of β agonist are associated with an increased risk of death and epidemics of death from asthma have been associated with marketing of high doses of β agonists .
25 In each case , the examples in this Appendix have been produced with reference to the respective official accident reports from which any quotations have been taken .
26 most planation surfaces are or have been graded with respect to some base elevation , usually sea level , but often to an endorheic basin or to a climatic control above sea level ;
27 ‘ The boats have been designed with resale in mind , ’ says Blyth , pragmatically .
28 The copper rivets have been capped with silver by diffusion , a technique ‘ discovered ’ at Sheffield in the mid-eighteenth century and used in the manufacture of Sheffield Plate .
29 The bird species have been chosen with care in order to minimise damage to the plants .
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