Example sentences of "was [vb pp] with [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , a trust fund was formed with the aims of establishing a permanent memorial to , and annual scholarships for young people connected with the industry . |
| 2 | The staircase was filled with the sounds of bellowing , screaming and thrashing shadows as Duvall burst back through the door after Barbara . |
| 3 | The piazza itself was filled with the stalls of local merchants and shopkeepers . |
| 4 | The hillside was riddled with the burrows of Audubon 's shearwaters and the warden pulled out a youngster to show us . |
| 5 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 6 | Outside the overalls he wore a faded green jacket that was decorated with the remnants of black piping . |
| 7 | Whether in terms of German economic and monetary union , the immediate measures that the European Community will be thinking of taking , the transitional arrangements once Germany is unified , and that this was done without any rancour but was done with the feelings of directly elected parliamentarians . |
| 8 | But by the mid-nineteenth century the focus of interest in the treatises against masturbation was more clearly young people rather than adults , and there seems little doubt that this was connected with the redefinitions of adolescence . |
| 9 | He was buried with the kings of France until Napoleon had the remains removed to the Invalides in 1800 . |
| 10 | The Republic of Yemen was welcomed as a member of the United Nations on May 23 , and sent a unified delegation to the Arab League summit in Baghdad [ see pp. 37472-73 ] , where on May 29 it was agreed with the heads of state of the other three Arab Co-operation Council members ( Egypt , Iraq and Jordan ) that the Republic of Yemen would hold the seat formerly held by North Yemen . |
| 11 | Its boot was stuffed with the holdalls of the kidnappers and had no room left . |
| 12 | Anselm was now ready for the remaining stages of his promotion : in September he did homage to the king and was invested with the lands of the archbishopric ; on 25 September he was enthroned at Canterbury , and on 4 December 1093 he was consecrated at Canterbury . |
| 13 | Again , she was festooned with the contents of the treasure chest — the terrible red leather box . |
| 14 | Round the back , in the patio by the pool , a table was set with the remains of lunch . |
| 15 | Apparently , little distinction was made between the providers and the suspicion of some county councillors was linked with the views of other councillors who held antipathetic attitudes over any non-statutory expenditure on educational provision . |
| 16 | The area was littered with the carcases of livestock in scenes reminiscent of the 1984–85 famine that left up to a million dead and prompted Bob Geldof 's Band Aid campaign . |
| 17 | Earth was littered with the corpses of those who had done no wrong , whereas those who caused great torment to others rarely got their deserts . |
| 18 | Julian Schwinger and Sin-itiro Tomonaga. was responsible 30 years ago for the development of quantum electrodynamics — the first modern relativistic quantum theory — writes in his autobiography of that period that ‘ the ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories ’ . |
| 19 | However , it is questionable whether this recantation at the level of economic theory provides the clue as to the practical reasons why the road to the high inflation of the 1970s was littered with the wrecks of attempts at incomes policies . |
| 20 | Then he lifted the body so that the blood dribbled over the stones and spilt on to the ground in front of him , where it was littered with the remains of other , older offerings — dead flowers , grains of rice and barley , a few coins . |
| 21 | Robert William Alan Anderson , in court on his 35th birthday , was charged with the murders of Judith Anderson ( 35 ) and her 74-year-old father , the Rev Eric Davidson , a retired Church of Ireland minister . |
| 22 | In Upper School every inch of the panelling was scored with the names of generations of boys . |
| 23 | At the altar , Father Paddy had solemnly completed the giving out of communion , and after much prayer and ceremony in the cleaning of the chalice and paten at the altar , the ordinary service of the Mass was resumed with the prayers after Communion and the Conclusion . |
| 24 | Two misunderstandings at least were caused by the initial use of ‘ passive resistance ’ to describe the principle f non-violent action , and both arose from the way in which the phrase was associated with the actions of the suffragettes. the first misunderstanding was that non-violent action was regarded as a weapon of the weak . |
| 25 | Pious persons disapproved of its use in any circumstances ; by mid-century they had also come to deprecate the mesmeric trance , which was associated with the activities of spiritualists ( see chapter ten ) . |
| 26 | Its psychogenic origin was reaffirmed with the descriptions of Ryle , Sheldon , Berkman , and Venables in the 1930s , a point of view that has predominated to the present time . |
| 27 | It transpires that this particular law was discussed with the heads of the Moscow University Zoological Museum and two provincial museums without the Russian Ministry of Culture knowing anything of it . |
| 28 | This beast 's lair was lined with the heads of beasts — tiger , rhino , and other exotics interspersed among the more usual deer trophies . |
| 29 | Above all , the cause was identified with the interests of women . |
| 30 | By the early 1970s , it remained true that the Labour Party was identified with the interests of the working classes , with the need for a reduction in class barriers and for the maintenance of the welfare system . |