Example sentences of "been [vb pp] with the [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 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In many cases teachers have been indoctrinated with the view that it is not their job to encourage competitive sports . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The AFBD has not been treated with the seriousness it deserves by bodies as powerful as the London International Financial Futures Exchange . |
| 15 | He , who had been fêted in Munich , had talked with the elector and other noblemen , and been treated with the respect due to a great artist , now had to take his place in the archiepiscopal pecking-order — below the valets , and only slightly higher than the cooks . |
| 16 | This aspect of Jewish intellectual life has never been treated with the attention it deserves . |
| 17 | The disk is not allowed access until it has been validated with the Disknet check program . |
| 18 | The disk is not allowed access until it has been validated with the Disknet check program . |
| 19 | But interest has been re-awakened with the discovery of this graveyard at Asthall near Burford in Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | But interest has been re-awakened with the discovery of this graveyard at Asthall near Burford in Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | The ANC announced on Oct. 22 that a high-level meeting had been arranged with the leadership of Inkatha on an unspecified date . |
| 22 | Subsequently , meetings have been arranged with the CPS , the Home Office and the Judiciary and a similar request made to the LCD to discuss the implementation of the Report . |
| 23 | The Countess of Huntingdon 's Methodist Connexion , founded in the mid-18th century , was yet another Calvinistic organisation , we may note with interest ; what with Robert Titford being baptised at one of their chapels , and his sister Elizabeth having been registered with the Zion congregation in Frome , Calvinism seems once again to have cast its shadow across the family , even into the 19th century . |
| 24 | A regional PR strategy has been developed with the help of nationwide seminars . |
| 25 | ‘ This system has been developed with the marketing capability as a fundamental principle . ’ |
| 26 | They 've stayed that way because outright majority has been given with the help of the council 's single independent . |
| 27 | He argued that it could be implied that it had been given with the intention that it should be used to promote the policy and objects of the enabling act . |
| 28 | One important signal had already been given with the reversal of the ‘ Tiananmen Incident ’ verdict . |
| 29 | Terminal ileal biopsy specimens were taken at ileocolonoscopy ( four patients ) for patients with longstanding quiescent ulcerative colitis and by the ileostomy of two patients who had a colectomy for UC ( histological reports state that 2 and 4 cm of ileum had been resected with the colectomy ) . |
| 30 | If it had done so , and had included among such grounds the case where the company had been formed with the purpose of defrauding creditors … the Spanish court would have been entitled to give effect to it notwithstanding the terms of the Directive ( p 32 ) . |