Example sentences of "[vb pp] with problem " in BNC.

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1 The voyage had been frought with problems ; waves swamped the vessel and the navigation system broke .
2 It will become even less distinct as environmental issues become more and more merged with problems caused by rapidly expanding populations , poverty and the visibly harsh strictures of climate change .
3 This part of the judge 's ruling is important because studies of passive smoking are beset with problems such as establishing a control and of knowing exposure levels .
4 TELEVISION A PROBLEM OF DEFINITION As with the arrival of videorecorders , the development of high-definition television sets is beset with problems of standards
5 I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy .
6 Because of these various difficulties a count of quangos is beset with problems .
7 The new government was immediately beset with problems , with Samir Geagea , leader of the Phalangist Lebanese Forces ( LF ) , announcing his resignation as Minister of State within two hours .
8 Innocent was beset with problems which he had little chance of solving as the sands constantly shifted and political and economic undercurrents conditioned behaviour .
9 This first venture , adapted from Norwegian writer Sigurd Christiansen 's 1931 novel about the psychological effects on two post office clerks of an armed raid in which a colleague is killed , was beset with problems throughout filming and beyond .
10 The diagnosis of dysplasia is beset with problems , as discussed above , furthermore the significance and outcome of high grade dysplasia is unpredictable .
11 John Major is beset with problems , you would n't
12 Thus both the setting and the monitoring of performance of the railways in relation to the PSO grant , to investment programmes and to planning , are beset with problems of information .
13 Such competing explanations tend to different predictions of what can be expected in early adulthood as to whether or not the former truants have , for example , experienced difficulties in the labour market or high levels of unemployment , acquired qualifications since leaving school , or met with problems in other aspects of their lives such as their marriages or their mental health .
14 Railway official Graham Mitchell says the original tunnel builders were plagued with problems including part of the nearby Wesley Chapel sliding away .
15 Eden himself became more emotional , first as he waited for Churchill to stop teasing and bow out of Number 10 Downing Street , and later as his own premiership became increasingly plagued with problems at home and abroad .
16 In the old days , child guidance clinics and , indeed , psychoanalytic couches for adult patients were inundated with problems denoting over-control : neurotic inhibition , anxiety , shyness and many other variations on the themes of repression or suppression .
17 Working out a salary structure for expatriates is riddled with problems .
18 Whereas I think cars now , because they give these guarantees on rust , they 've certainly given it a lot of thought , but , I mean there was certainly models that were riddled with problems were n't there ?
19 Another , at both A and B , was that very little genuine help was given with problems ; the question and answer sheets were not marked , for example , and tutorials did n't always provide the key to understanding what the work was about :
20 A higher decision-making ability is usually needed from managers to deal with problems in ( b ) compared with problems in ( a ) .
21 Instead of acquiring fairly smoothly a bigger version of the cosy old federal republic , with its powerful economy and low political profile , they have inherited an unknown country packed with problems and with people who have mostly turned out to be German-speaking strangers .
22 Splitting such obvious assets as the matrimonial home may be strewn with problems , but what about an accrued pension fund ?
23 Now my mind was so burdened with problems I could n't even remember what James had said the party was about .
24 The group award should be designed to allow breadth of application and reflect the needs associated with problem solving and task management .
25 Some instant coffees are associated with problems similar to wheat-sensitivity in a number of patients and are better avoided along with wheat .
26 The fear of performance reflecting cultural stigmas directed toward erective inadequacy was that associated with problems of secondary impotence .
27 Similarly , Pound and her colleagues ( 1985 ) found that a long history of depressive illness in a mother , or a combination of depression and personality problems , was associated with problems ( especially of sleeping ) in her children .
28 Coupled with problems that arose with the apparatus — UA1 for example was beset by difficulties ranging from dirty air-lines to burst pipes — it was not until last November and December that the experiments were able to observe a large sample of proton-antiproton collisions .
29 The ‘ establishment ’ was fully represented in the Society , which was engaged with problems seen as crucial in late Victorian Britain , and had over 600 members .
30 Much of it is engrossed with problems internally generated within the research itself , sometimes because of the need for experimental precision , sometimes because of conceptual ineptitude .
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