Example sentences of "been [verb] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water shortage faced by thousands of refugees in Jordan has been eased with the help of the Oxford based charity Oxfam . |
| 2 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 3 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 4 | The remains of water-mills have been consistently removed ; the weirs which hold up river levels have been dismantled ; and mill-ponds and mill-races have been filled with the dredgings . |
| 5 | And yet that part of the interview could have been dismissed with a laugh in five seconds . |
| 6 | Earlier in the season the prospect of a French Championship final between Toulon and Biarritz would have been dismissed with the words : C'est fou ! |
| 7 | To make matters worse any chance of ventilation had been stopped with the use of many pairs of tights or balls of newspaper stuffed into every hole , nook or cranny . |
| 8 | The house had been furnished with a lot of money badly spent in a mixture of styles . |
| 9 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 10 | The original blood has been blended with the blood of Turks and Slavs and others , but the face in a modern Athens street or a rural corner of the Peloponnese is not a face from Istanbul or Belgrade . |
| 11 | David Edward Hughes , whose experiments with the ‘ printing telegraph ’ led to the development of an efficient microphone during the 1870's , has been honoured with a plaque at his former lodgings . |
| 12 | It continued to be so through more than two decades , and then — in the mid-1980s — it seemed , almost inexplicably , to be secure no longer , despite his having only recently been honoured with a knighthood for services to literature . |
| 13 | On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it . |
| 14 | In many cases teachers have been indoctrinated with the view that it is not their job to encourage competitive sports . |
| 15 | Why had the two men been favoured with a sound of the supernatural ? |
| 16 | The pagan world was familiar with the widespread beliefs that sexual contact between man and woman hindered the soul 's rise to higher things , and even that one who has been favoured with the love of a god ought to forgo mortal love . |
| 17 | So long as Artai remained unmarried it was important to the self-esteem of each of them to demonstrate that while neither she nor her family had thus far been favoured with the Kha-Khan 's selection , yet she was capable of exercising influence . |
| 18 | Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million . |
| 19 | Historians have been fascinated with the event and have written extensively on its causes , meticulously recorded the events , and speculated about the consequences of its collapse for British industrial relations . |
| 20 | He had been the youngest ever to head the ancient , honourable Fiana ; there had been seven years within its ranks only , and he had been intoxicated with the knowledge . |
| 21 | Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge . |
| 22 | Some people in the liberal Free Democratic party , the junior partner in the government , had been toying with the idea of switching their support to the Social Democrats after December . |
| 23 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 24 | Before Henderson went to Russia Lloyd George himself had been toying with the idea that a Stockholm conference might help to keep Russia in the war . |
| 25 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 26 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 27 | ‘ No , he had been toying with the idea of proposing to Fiona , whom he had known all his life and whom he liked . |
| 28 | The investigations of the small mammal faunas from Westbury cave have been undertaken with a view to interpreting their palaeoecology . |
| 29 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 30 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |