Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kraak also showed that maps illustrating the values of a variable in 2D shaded polygons best formed a ‘ map-to-see ’ when they were displayed with the variable visualized in 3D . |
| 2 | They were posessed with the fear the world would end around the year 1500 . |
| 3 | The Sabbath meals , of course , were family occasions also , but they were invested with the day 's solemnity and holiness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The hapless clients contacted would often buy , believing they were in contact with a hectic dealing room , thinking that they were presented with the investment opportunity of the decade . |
| 6 | They were presented with the Grand Opera House Cup by Mrs Pat Henderson , wife of the Association 's president . |
| 7 | They proved it could be done when they were faced with the task of building a glass conservatory restaurant over the water in the Queen 's Graving Dock underneath the new building . |
| 8 | Thinking they were breaking with the past , the early Christians re-enacted it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And they were rewarded with the prospect of a third round home tie against First Division West Ham United . |
| 11 | If employees deviated from the required behaviour patterns then they were threatened with the sack ( and insecurity ) , isolation ( and insecurity ) or promotional restrictions ( failure and insecurity ) . |
| 12 | They could not develop an agreed political ideology , they were tainted with the ‘ red ’ smear , and they had less success than the IRA in making themselves acceptable to their own communities . |
| 13 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 14 | Any dispositions of property or payments made by the bankrupt between the date of the presentation of the bankruptcy petition and the vesting of his assets in his trustee are void except to the extent that they were made with the consent of the court or were subsequently ratified by the court ( s 284(1)-(3) ) . |
| 15 | They were dealing with the steaks , which fulfilled the savoury promise that filled the air around the big stone barbecue and tasted delicious . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The other is that they were Christians but they received at this point more of the Holy Spirit , they were filled with the Spirit ‘ as at the beginning . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 20 | They were to choose and they were to live with the consequences of their choice . |
| 21 | On the mile-long drive up to the Abbey Anna exclaimed with admiration at the banks of rhododendrons in bloom at each side of the narrow road , and they were chatting with the familiarity of old friends as Merrill pulled into the car park . |
| 22 | They were charged with the murder of Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho , the leader of the rubber tapper 's union and environmental campaigner , on Dec. 22 , 1988 [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 23 | Assistant catering manager Ronnie McLay said : ‘ A short time before the hungry crowds descended , catering manager Sid Ashford and I gave Jim , Lorna and Agnes a big surprise : they were to deal with the barbecue while we acted as runners . |
| 24 | Between 1957 and 1960 they were fitted with the large single indicator box , which did not suit their designs . |
| 25 | Certainly the date was out by exactly one month , but the report offered no explanation as to the identity of these bodies , whether they were connected with the collision' ( itself not explained ) , or whether at this date they were chanced upon and were in fact those of Leslie and his ‘ stick ’ . |
| 26 | The organisation of the Latin office of the Church at the Canonical Hours evolved from a complex tradition of teaching which found justification for these hours of prayer in both Old and New Testaments of the Bible ; and a general pattern emerged in which they were connected with the Passion narrative . |
| 27 | Perhaps they 've put the nut back on too tight I mean I know they were fiddling with the back . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When the philosopher-agronomists advocated new crops and new methods they were met with the excuse so often given to Cavanilles on his tour of Aragon , ‘ We do as our fathers do . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ They were saved with the mulberry , ’ says Mrs Hewer , ‘ and we added wild ones . ’ |