Example sentences of "had been [verb] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some reports also hinted that the Libyan connection had been leaked to coincide with efforts to tie Iran and Syria into the emerging US-led anti-Iraq alliance in the Gulf crisis . |
| 2 | Observers said that the demonstration had been planned to coincide with the visit to Dili of a Portuguese parliamentary delegation ( subsequently cancelled by Indonesia — see p. 38535 ) , and of the UN special rapporteur on torture , Peter Kooymans , to raise international awareness of the East Timor independence movement . |
| 3 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 4 | I have mentioned that , while the Governor was still in Simla , a very able Burman , U Khin Zaw , had been sent to train with the BBC . |
| 5 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 6 | The Georgian Supreme Soviet , called for Sept. 16 , convened on Sept. 15 , as an opposition demonstration had been called to coincide with its opening on Sept. 16 . |
| 7 | Mr Geoff Nichol , Darlington chief executive , had been asked to help with a project looking at community care but would still hold his position with the district , said Mr Smith . |
| 8 | A new amenities committee had been formed within the parish council during the year , and chairman Ken Yeldham explained that it had been formed to deal with the things that fell outside the scope of the present committees . |
| 9 | The six-member secretariat had been formed to deal with the SNC 's day-to-day administration . |
| 10 | Now that Coleman had been seen working with DEA agents in Cyprus , there was a clear risk that he might also have been identified by one of their Beirut informants as a friend of Tony Asmar 's . |
| 11 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 12 | Although the meeting had been arranged to coincide with final approval of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development [ see p. 37132 ] , those talks were still incomplete , so there was little formal discussion of events in Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | Our trip had been timed to coincide with nesting , although the birds were confused by the late spring and many had not yet started to build . |
| 14 | Reports also suggested that the delegation 's visit had been timed to coincide with the period marking the start of US budgetary procedures allocating foreign assistance for the next financial year . |
| 15 | He explained that the description " dumb " had been omitted from the title to enable him to embrace within the scope of his review all deaf persons of distinction , whether they had continued dumb or had been enabled to articulate with any degree of facility . |
| 16 | For about twenty-five years or more prior to the Poor Law Commission designating ‘ boy labour ’ a social problem , several attempts had been made to deal with the youth question by enrolling older children and young adolescents in a socially conservative youth movement , whose main features were discipline , religion , and organized leisure . |
| 17 | Others have had a boomerang effect by wiping out natural predators or by obligingly clearing the habitat for another , though equally troublesome , pest-Herbicides which killed poppies in wheatfields cleared the way for wild oats , so that until the ( very expensive ) sprays had been developed to cope with them , a trip through the eastern counties in midsummer could create the strong impression that oats had made a spectacular comeback as a cereals crop . |
| 18 | By the autumn , the launch had been moved to spring with the emphasis now on business and professional users . |
| 19 | Then the fear reached him that there had been an assault — a ship had been seen , moored , the men had been observed returning with limbs dressed for wounds . |
| 20 | Neill , the only Portsmouth player to have experienced the atmosphere of an FA Cup Final — he was a Queens Park Rangers substitute 10 years ago — played a long pass behind a tired defence that had been forced to cope with extra pressure following Liverpool 's reduction to 10 men , when McManaman departed on a stretcher . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , she had been forced to agree with Geoffrey , her vicar , when , after a local deanery chapter meeting , he 'd said that a stranger might be forgiven for supposing that the Church of England in south London was staffed by middle-aged ex-lorry drivers , recruited via the Southwark Ordination Course , plus a sprinkling of very young men who had found their accountancy examinations too arduous . |
| 22 | Jim and Louise , however , had been forced to remain with their captor alongside the open trapdoor , until he had satisfied himself the coast was completely clear . |
| 23 | Too often he had been forced to work with snapshots several years old , maybe fuzzy enlargements of little faces glimpsed in group poses . |
| 24 | When we consider the regulation that will be imposed and the rights of consumers in Northern Ireland , my hon. Friend will find that consumers will be much better protected and safeguarded under privatisation than if they had been left to continue with a publicly owned monopoly which too often had a life of its own and was not subject to the outside pressures that consumers have a right to bring to bear . |
| 25 | The two German drivers and their load had been booked to sail with Sealink and then tried P & O. |
| 26 | There was an almost audible sigh of relief around the world that someone had been caught tampering with the dictionary . |
| 27 | There was a week in 1986 when Fleet Street and Westminster were convulsed with a rumour that Home Sectretary Leon Brittan had been caught interferring with a small boy ; no newspaper dared to print what all " in the know " were discussing until " Private Eye " published the story with the explanation that it was utterly false , and circulated to damage the Home Secretary by an anti-semitic faction in MI5 . |
| 28 | The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had , in this case , been neglectful , and Charlie was looking , though that he did not know , where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began . |
| 29 | Detective Constable David Hemes told the hearing that Mr Weatherstone had been found hanging with a belt round his neck . |
| 30 | A total of 3 per cent referred to independent green audits , but none commented on what measures , if any , had been taken to deal with the audits ' recommendations . |