Example sentences of "was [verb] with [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mrs Strachan 's evidence was treated with disdain by council solicitor , Mr Richard Humphreys . |
| 2 | She seemed unable to appreciate the fact that Henry himself was one of a threatened species , even though that threat was treated with contempt by most ecologists and nearly all women . |
| 3 | The 1850 Act was regarded with horror by the shipowners who saw the observance of petty regulations added to the loss of their rights to carry freight in British bottoms . |
| 4 | It was also , wrote Miss Anne Buckland , the anthropological scholar and author of an entertaining book called Our Viands ( 1893 ) , too expensive to be generally popular , and was regarded with suspicion by the poor who " despise and dislike it " . |
| 5 | He was received with honour by Archbishop Hermann of Cologne and Emperor Henry III , remained in Germany for a year , and was presented , among other gifts , with a psalter and sacramentary sent there by Canute [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | The Czechoslovak voucher scheme , which will apportion shares in state enterprises to the general public , was received with scepticism by the Poles ( who want to do the same thing a different way ) and with disdain by the Hungarians ( who think state enterprises should simply be sold ) . |
| 7 | " There were no barriers between Nizan and this revolution … he was filled with emotion by everything that he witnessed " , a fellow journalist recalls.98 Unquestionably , Spain in 1936 represented the pinnacle of Nizan 's revolutionary and Republican aspirations . |
| 8 | The tree was decorated with lights by and his team of engineers , and was such a spectacle it resulted in a letter in the local paper from Santa Claus himself , thanking us for putting it up . |
| 9 | The basic diet was supplemented with 2% by weight of either oleic acid ( 18:1 omega 9 ; 95% purity , Roig Farma ) , linoleic acid ( 18:2 omega 6 ; 95% purity , Sigma , St Louis , Mo , USA ) or eicosapentaenoic acid ( 20:5 omega 3 ; 96% purity , Nissui Pharmaceutical , Yuki , Ibaragi , Japan ) , to obtain the oleic , linoleic , or eicosapentaenoic acid diets respectively . |
| 10 | However , the rise in all domestic fuel costs from April next year was met with dismay by Mr Heywood . |
| 11 | A UK-sponsored proposal for a UN police force , endorsed by EC Foreign Ministers on April 28 , was met with scepticism by UN officials , some of whom feared that UN procedures were being by-passed . |
| 12 | Every stroke was applied with precision by the bitch of an SS officer , and after each stroke she would smile and run the whip lovingly through her fingers . |
| 13 | The Princess , the hospital 's president , was presented with flowers by Susan Peek , 10 , and Andrew Tedder , 14 , who have been treated at Great Ormond Street . |
| 14 | THE charity Dreams Come True was presented with £850 by Cleveland County Caterers in Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 15 | In February 1938 , the government of Austria was threatened with invasion by Hitler 's troops , unless the Austrian Nazis were incorporated in their government , and by acceding to that threat the Austrian government was effectively destroyed . |
| 16 | The USA 's answer , the Lockheed and Boeing SSTs — the latter cancelled by President Nixon in the same way Concorde was threatened with cancellation by the Wilson Labour Government — are also equally well documented . |
| 17 | The prize comes two years after the school , in the Craigmillar estate , was threatened with closure by Lothian education authority . |
| 18 | Play was briefly suspended at the start of the Pakistan innings when Sachin Tendulkar , fielding on the boundary , was pelted with fruit by the crowd . |
| 19 | The sultan 's army was supplied with troops by the timarli — the holders of fiefs known as timars . |
| 20 | Perhaps more important , the motor transport required by a modern army was supplied with drivers by conscripting bus , lorry and taxi drivers from Accra and the other big towns . |
| 21 | At the actual moment I was transfixed with horror by the antics of the small black car . |
| 22 | I have never met him since for I left Bristol before he was appointed to the Chair of Music but he was remembered with affection by many of my peers . |
| 23 | Saddam 's linkage of the Kuwait issue with other regional problems was greeted with enthusiasm by many Arabs , who contrasted the West 's belligerent attitude over the current crisis with its virtual acceptance of Israel 's long-term occupation of Arab lands . |
| 24 | However , Buthelezi 's proposal was greeted with enthusiasm by the Conservative Party and by Ciskei 's military ruler , Brig. |
| 25 | The news was greeted with astonishment by Christopher Mason , leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrat group : ‘ It 's extraordinary that a ‘ caring , sharing ’ council told its employees only eight days ago that they would be offered redundancy or redeployment . ’ |
| 26 | Trotting past the houses , she was greeted with affection by those who saw her . |
| 27 | The speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders . |
| 28 | News of Venables ' defeat was greeted with fury by hundreds of Spurs fans outside court , amid pledges that they would picket matches to discourage other supporters , until he was reinstated . |
| 29 | The defeat of Labour was greeted with relief by health service managers , but critics said the NHS was now set on the road to privatisation and a two-tier service . |
| 30 | An announcement by Argentina 's President Carlos Menem rescinding a planned threefold hike in the duties on paper imported for book production was greeted with delight by hundreds of publishers and other book professionals from all over Latin America gathered for the official opening ceremony of the 19th Buenos Aires International Book Fair on 16th April . |