Example sentences of "were [vb pp] with [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ We were inundated with calls from members of the public and newsagents desperate for copies . |
| 2 | The remainder of the meeting was spent in looking at the Grid on which visitors envisaged were placed with Regions for Primary ( ten days to a fortnight ) or Secondary ( 5-7 days ) periods . |
| 3 | Railway official Graham Mitchell says the original tunnel builders were plagued with problems including part of the nearby Wesley Chapel sliding away . |
| 4 | Almost everywhere the Japanese soldiers were received with shouts of Banzai : the Japanese made much of the Jayabhaya prophecy and most Indonesians believed that now they would be free . |
| 5 | Murine epidermal cells ( EC ) were treated with trypsin in EDTA ( TE ) or trypsin in calcium ( TC ) , stained for E- or P-cadherins and I-A antigens , and analysed by two-colour flow cytometry. a , c , e , Cadherin-specific ( phycoerythrin ) fluorescence on I-A - ( FITC - ) KC ; b , d , f , phycoerythrin fluorescence on I-A + LC. a , b , EC stained after a single exposure to trypsin in calcium during epidermal separation . |
| 6 | Cells were treated with chemicals for 30min at 37 °C or as stated and then incubated for the indicated times before isolation of total RNA . |
| 7 | All six patients with active cytomegalovirus infection were treated with infusions of foscarnet . |
| 8 | He saw that these tasty species were treated with respect by predators as if they too were distasteful to eat . |
| 9 | The sick left there ‘ sometimes … were favoured with revelations in dreams … |
| 10 | Early works , such as Hard Times ( 1970 ) , were garnished with parables from Terkel 's memories . |
| 11 | We were pressed with Day v. McLea ( ( 1889 ) 22 Q.B.D. 610 ) , where the debtor himself sent a cheque for an amount smaller than that of the debt to the creditor on the terms that it should be in satisfaction of the debt . |
| 12 | It was not clean and tidy as if the thoughts had flowed easily ; it was double-spaced , and the spaces were larded with corrections in type and pencil , crossings-out , insertions , changed words … it was very hard to make it out . |
| 13 | The first three rows of the stalls were filled with people in evening dress . |
| 14 | They were interspersed with rows of vines , whose high branches must have made the harvest very hard work . |
| 15 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 16 | Parties at the Oxford International Language College , like everything else , were designed with cost-effectiveness in mind . |
| 17 | As for Pentium 's infamous heat output , Compaq reckons that the original Deskpro/M boxes were designed with Pentium in mind and that the airflow will cope . |
| 18 | The Jordanian authorities were overwhelmed with demands for relief , especially food supplies , and the repatriation of foreign workers to their countries of origin . |
| 19 | COS-1 cells were transfected with vector without insert ( lanes 2 and 8 ) , or vector containing the cDNAs of PLC- β1 ( lanes 3–6 ) or PLC- β2 ( lanes 9–12 ) . |
| 20 | The Spanish writer Gomez de la Serna , a friend of Picasso 's at this time and an habitué of the Bateau Lavoir during his visits to Paris , recalls that Picasso 's walls there were decorated with reproductions of El Grecos . |
| 21 | A GANG armed with a sub-machine gun were caught with drugs worth £5 million by undercover police . |
| 22 | The arrival of a letter from a son or daughter was an event in which tears of relief were mixed with tears of sorrow , and the news was shared with the whole community . |
| 23 | Immediately before , and at appropriate intervals after the addition of ATP , 5ml aliquots were mixed with 1.5ml of stop solution ( 0.1M EDTA , 5% SDS ) and placed at 65°C for 5 min . |
| 24 | The walls were daubed with splashes of paint , and here and there large eyes were drawn , with daggers sticking out of them . |
| 25 | Standard haemagglutination inhibition techniques with diluted human anti-A , anti-B , and anti-H ( extracted from the lectin Ulex europaeus ) were applied with saliva at dilutions up to one in 16 . |
| 26 | The Independent of Feb. 20 also reported that al-Nouri had estimated that 18 million people were threatened with epidemics of cholera and typhoid because of damage to water and sewage systems . |
| 27 | The official national results , released on Oct. 23 , were met with rioting in North-West Province , a centre of support for Fru Ndi ( who had earlier claimed victory himself ) . |
| 28 | Caroline Spurgeon 's analyses of Shakespeare 's imagery were met with suspicion by R. G. Cox , who insisted that there would be " no substitute for literary criticism " . |
| 29 | All were matted with puffs of trees ; the bright thread of a waterfall was laid over one , a snail 's silver trail ; and one was crossed by a great rift that made it appear a giant 's helter-skelter . |
| 30 | Some mornings we galloped over the open plain below the Legation ; at that hour the tracks were threaded with groups of villagers on their way to market in Addis Ababa . |