Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 2 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 3 | Alaska is to go ahead with a controversial plan to reduce wolf numbers in a bid to restock caribou herds . |
| 4 | Turkey is flown in with the weekly food supplies , while in Tripoli some enterprising expats even breed turkeys specifically for the festive table . |
| 5 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 6 | So of course it is proving already with the National Curriculum . |
| 7 | The woman question is treated together with the homosexual question . |
| 8 | It is tricked out with a handsome jacket and contains the standard acknowledgements , including the author 's thanks to the Universe for her participation in Existence . |
| 9 | An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin . |
| 10 | With each successive moult the current crop of fungal parasites is shed along with the old exoskeleton . |
| 11 | It seems IBM believes all it has to do to get its way is to come up with the right marketing plan . |
| 12 | On environmental grounds , use of solvent-based product is falling and our job is to come up with the right alternative across a whole spectrum of end uses . ’ |
| 13 | Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome . |
| 14 | Spraying is carried out with a coarse spray at low pressure . |
| 15 | Hey hey I say all these kids are doing is walking round with a bloody turnip with a candle in it . |
| 16 | Tories say the way forward is to work closely with the private sector to set up a scheme similar to that undertaken by Halton Council , which is aiming for 90% recycling . |
| 17 | It 's happening principally with the small and medium size businesses because they 're the first to suffer . |
| 18 | I 've mentioned it to him and what he 's saying is come back with a firm proposal . |
| 19 | Any lack of elegance in the prose is made up with the gripping action . |
| 20 | ‘ She is fed up with the naval life ? ’ |
| 21 | Like most activists , Isaacs is fed up with the sloth-like pace with which governments are taking on environmental concerns . |
| 22 | When the second part of the strap is cut it 's matched up with the main piece for colour . |
| 23 | Frisch is not exactly an existentialist , but his book is shot through with a certain emotionally short-circuiting ennui , a weary horror that life is nothing but a random yet poignant series of coincidences . |
| 24 | The useful information in this book is shot through with the engaging assertion that the books are biographical and that when he journeyed to some of the scenes of Hornblower 's exploits the author was truly following in the steps of his hero . |
| 25 | Darwinian evolutionary thinking influenced him too , and his work on society is shot through with an evolutionary perspective , from the primal horde , a notion he derived from Darwin , to complex technological societies . |
| 26 | It is ironic that the hypocrite , who is seen throughout with a neurotic distrust of women , and whose every second word to his wife is an insult , should finally be exposed by a woman he had trusted , from whom he had snatched the handkerchief without even thinking her worth swearing to secrecy ( III.iii.320ff . ) . |
| 27 | Malcolm Lee , Agricultural Services Manager at the Met Office is seen here with the new Sharp UX-120 fax machine , offered by the Met Office at a special price to subscribers to its new Weatherfax electronic forecasting service . |
| 28 | We are thrilled that she is living happily with a sweet Jack Russell Terrier , several cats , rabbits , and even a horse ! |
| 29 | All this ( the play not the soap ) is wrapped up with a fair degree of barbed wit with Finney acting big and bold as Alfred , with Stephen Moore more cagey and devious as Michael . |
| 30 | For the period , a remarkable sense of town planning is shown here with the main square , the Malostranské náměstí or Lesser Town Square in the centre and , running from it to the castle , the wide Nerudova Street , and Mostecká , leading to Charles Bridge and Letenská . |