Example sentences of "were [verb] with [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Deserted wives were regarded with even more suspicion than widows , and in their case the circular advised that outdoor relief should be denied for twelve months , to ensure that they were not colluding with their husbands to defraud the authorities .
2 Johnson wrote , ‘ We were treated with very liberal hospitality , among a more numerous and elegant company than it could have been supposed easy to collect . ’
3 She concludes from her study that ‘ the families of the writers were riddled with both creativity and mental illness ’ , the two intertwining to an extent which would make it difficult to deny their real association .
4 In relation specifically to GP 's referrals others were consulted with exactly the same frequency whether male or female referrals .
5 The rooms beyond were filled with more forgotten furniture .
6 They were dazzling with brilliantly coloured paintings .
7 And they 're lovely young people they were to work with really .
8 Some of the traps and carts were decorated with delicately painted designs .
9 They opened up a lead of more than two minutes by Huddersfield , but were caught with just under 30 miles left .
10 For reconstitution of holoenzymes , the reconstituted core enzymes were mixed with four-fold molar excess of σ 70 subunit .
11 Sometimes I would receive a monosyllabic answer to a question , but generally my enquiries were met with either blank silences or , more often , with graphic expletives .
12 Autoradiographs of bleomycin cleavage were scanned with either a Joyce Loebl Chromoscan III or a Hoefer GS300 microdensitometer .
13 Matilda was the first English princess since the seventh century whose year of birth is precisely known ; as for her youthful marriage , this appears to have been becoming commoner as marriage alliances were sought with ever more reckless haste by the great dynasts of the twelfth century .
14 There were occasions when riots were connected with more overtly political incidents .
15 They were built with neither nails nor pegs , but merely slotted and lashed together with great precision .
16 The earlier models were built with more conventional timber materials .
17 Nor was there much evidence of concern in the correspondence columns of The Times — that bush-telegraph of respectable opinion — which were absorbed with more pressing matters such as the scarcity of swallows in England that summer .
18 On reflection , costly mistakes were made with both the Class 27s and 45s , whose short careers could not possibly have justified the lavish life-extension work carried out on them .
19 The changes were made with surprisingly little difficulty .
20 The Indians were buried with as much wealth as possible , and so they strove with the utmost diligence throughout their lives to acquire and amass all the gold they could , which they took from their own land and were buried with it …
21 These assays were performed with fully supercoiled plasmid DNA , purified from cells grown to stationary phase .
22 Initially there were only two to a battalion , but as the weapon 's capabilities in defence and attack were realized , more and more were issued and soon whole units were armed with only these fast-firing automatic weapons .
23 Therefore , although it was a little slower in use , no time was lost in the field through frequent breaks for sharpening with the rub-stone as were needed with both swap-hook and scythe .
24 Control slides were stained with either TRIS buffered saline or an isotype matched monoclonal antibody ( anti-cytokeratin , 1/100 , Dako ) .
25 As negative controls , additional sections were stained with appropriately diluted normal rabbit or sheep sera .
26 They were celebrating with just 8 minutes to go when Rovers hit the winner .
27 Of course we were supplied with as much milk as we wanted , plenty of milk .
28 The walls were papered with very large blue roses , surrounded by dove-grey and silver-tinted leafage .
29 The same was true of market produce ; some growers concentrating on just one crop so that ‘ whole tracts , like large arable fields , were sown with only cabbages or asparagus ’ , and he also appreciated the local economy in forcing asparagus through the necks of broken bottles .
30 Subcloned cDNA inserts were amplified with either the M13 primers or with T3 and T7. cDNA clones were isolated from the original BL-29 library by hybridizing 7C11 and 6G11 to plaque lifts as previously described .
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