Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ J ] oined to political agencies , … [ newspapers ] augmented their own status … they were invested with a new validity , and an implicit authority . ’ |
| 2 | Moreover , the likely rental would not even match the interest Mr and Mrs P would save if the house were sold and they were credited with the net proceeds of sale . |
| 3 | They were cut with a sharp , scalpel-like instrument , in or beside their sexual organs . |
| 4 | In the first place they were presented with a riveting demonstration of what a genuinely free press is capable of . |
| 5 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 6 | They were presented with the Grand Opera House Cup by Mrs Pat Henderson , wife of the Association 's president . |
| 7 | Being driven into one town they were faced with a moving lights message over a bank giving in turn the temperature , date and ‘ Louisiana welcomes British canoeists George and Sylvie . ’ |
| 8 | But the owners had to throw them out because they were faced with a huge increase in insurance premiums , up from a $1000 to almost $5000 . |
| 9 | Unless they were faced with a common enemy , as we shall see , concerted action by the nobility was difficult to achieve . |
| 10 | Girls from the upper classes were brought up to believe ‘ that they were born with a prescriptive right to their social advantages , their graceful culture ’ Hopkins stands very much as representative of the new-style purity feminist . |
| 11 | Within an hour of arrival they were closeted with the permanent secretary , the most senior civil servant , of the Ministry of Agriculture mapping out the ground for a loan from the World Bank to Tanzania which would put $25 million into livestock production , turning ranching and the export of beef into a major national industry . |
| 12 | They were examined with a semiautomated morphometric technique with high specificity by a single , blinded observer using a digitising board , and anterior , central , and posterior heights were recorded . |
| 13 | They could not have been more than fifteen , but their faces were heavily coated with cosmetics , and they were dressed with a tawdry precociousness which allowed no illusions as to their innocence . |
| 14 | But Arsenal began to display some of the tidy , organised football that had brought them four consecutive victories and they were rewarded with a superb equaliser 16 minutes from time when Campbell latched onto Martin Keown 's long pass , ghosted past two defenders and hammered the ball home . |
| 15 | Participants attended free , but had to have paid their Society membership ; they were rewarded with an enjoyable day of open classes , display items and cheese-and-wine refreshments . |
| 16 | In the second half , Peebles raised their game after Chris Davis and Neil White had scored for Melrose , and they were rewarded with an excellent try by winger Robert Knox , converted by Mutch . |
| 17 | When they came round in the valley , they were entertained with every delightful variant of wine , women and song promised in the holy scriptures to those who would go to Paradise . |
| 18 | The wall to the right of the door was covered with tools of the trade — chisels and punches of every size , mostly with handles of twisted willow which allowed the smith to hold them whilst they were struck with a seven pound sledgehammer and feel no vibration . |
| 19 | It emerged yesterday that they thought they were dealing with a technical problem , not a full-scale emergency . |
| 20 | They soon realised they were dealing with a brilliant , but disturbed mind . |
| 21 | His revelations amazed the investigators who had believed they were dealing with a limited case . |
| 22 | The consistency of these distortions and the immediacy with which they occur convinced the Gestalt psychologists that they were dealing with a fundamental property of the brain rather than something that we have learned . |
| 23 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 24 | Until recently , however , only the Archaeological Survey of India and the Konserwacji Zabytkow of Poland were permitted to work at Angkor Wat and Bayon , respectively because , like the Cambodians , they were aligned with the former Soviet bloc . |
| 25 | Between 1957 and 1960 they were fitted with the large single indicator box , which did not suit their designs . |
| 26 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 27 | His taste was individual : he had a pink suit and matching overcoat , both of thick wool , that cost him 3000 Marks ( the fee for a three-act ballet ) ; they were worn with an orange tie . |
| 28 | As a result they were met with a 45-minute barrage of gunfire . |
| 29 | In early December Lancaster attempted to negotiate with the court by sending Ralph Basset and William de Clinton with proposals for a settlement , but they were met with a firm refusal by Edward , who told Lancaster that he should not attempt to bargain with his king . |
| 30 | Compared with our own disembarkation , when the all-change was announced at Beirut they were unloaded with a certain amount of deference . |