Example sentences of "been [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly . |
| 2 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 3 | So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten . |
| 4 | Modern artists have long been fascinated with the comic strip : MoMA 's ‘ High and Low ’ show a while back provided a primer on the subject . |
| 5 | Students have been placed with the European Secretariat in Luxembourg , with Amnesty International , Oxfam , Third World Development agencies , and with parliamentary representatives , thus combining theoretical studies with practical work experience . |
| 6 | THE first serious prospect of a cure for Aids , rather than a treatment which delays its effects , has emerged when no trace of the Aids virus was found during the post mortem on a patient who had been treated with the standard AZT drug and a bone marrow transplant . |
| 7 | In Asia , the miracle rice was wiped out in many areas because it had not been treated with the necessary chemicals . |
| 8 | She had been treated with the utmost stupidity . |
| 9 | A total of 41 parties and coalitions had been registered with the Central Electoral Commission ( CEC ) by Sept. 13 . |
| 10 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 11 | Riots were increasing over the capital , and communications had been broken with the other two major cities of Nicaea . |
| 12 | We had a horse who had been broken with the wrong sized bit when his teeth needed attention and under a saddle with a broken tree which rubbed his back . |
| 13 | At Duperial 's San Lorenzo site , Argentina , close links have been formed with the local neighbourhood to discuss the works ' operations and emissions . |
| 14 | The Class 47 locomotive Society was formed in July 1983 and during 1988 the 47401 project had been formulated with the specific aim of preserving D1500 . |
| 15 | Leon Trotsky protested with his dying breath that he had been shot , not stabbed , even though Stalin 's killer had been caught with the ice-pick still in his hand . |
| 16 | The regions of application have been amalgamated with the National Curriculum cross-curricular themes . |
| 17 | They failed to meet the League 's noon deadline to provide assurances they could continue and tomorrow 's Coca-Cola Cup tie at Reading has been cancelled with the Second Division side getting a bye . |
| 18 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 19 | BLOOD on their hands , as it were , readers have been grappling with the unsolved mystery we set last week . |
| 20 | No longer ‘ hidden from history ’ women artists and art historians have , over the past decade , been grappling with the thorny question of the feminine aesthetic . |
| 21 | It was n't that I was doubting my faith or denying the reality of my becoming a Christian , but rather that , though I had genuinely believed ten years earlier , my commitment had been intertwined with the emotional comfort of sharing the beliefs and way of life of my family and certain friends . |
| 22 | The whole school seemed to have been designed with the sole purpose of freezing all the pupils to death . |
| 23 | The premises have been designed with the disabled student in mind . |
| 24 | This exercise has been designed with the inflexible golfer in mind . |
| 25 | Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum . |
| 26 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 27 | And , having been presented with the customary bottle of champagne by the Wincanton executive , Scudamore added that he felt a lot less pressure than he had last season . |
| 28 | Scottish Nuclear has been presented with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ( RoSPA ) silver award for Health and Safety . |
| 29 | To mark the achievement , Nigel Spencer , Manager , Network Development has been presented with the Retail Banking Research Award and a magnum of champagne . |
| 30 | as has been done with the two examples in the previous section . |