Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies . |
| 2 | They are usually very well made , and although there are always some relatively shoddy examples on the market , the vast majority are extremely durable ; provided they are treated with a reasonable degree of care , they will last for many years . |
| 3 | As befits a signatory of a neo-Dada Manifesto Against Style ( 1957 ) , many of Manzoni 's works are unsigned , untitled and undated , and are improvised with a bewildering variety of materials and processes ( ‘ achromes ’ might be made from kaolin , felt , cotton , polystyrene , wool , rabbit fur , bread rolls or stones ) . |
| 4 | The nut itself is a curious thing that grows from the so-called cashew apple , and both are filled with a nasty acid fluid that causes dermatitis . |
| 5 | All of his poems are filled with a quiet irony ; a message to those patriotic leaders and potential soldiers , removing the glory and honour from war — they strip everything but the bare facts from the issue of war and show it as it is , from first-hand experience . |
| 6 | Through a ‘ total cost approach , ’ all aspects of the appication of quality principles in the procurement process are examined with a particular bias towards the engineering environment . |
| 7 | Schools where the staff are aligned with a practical philosophy which is more than the usual ‘ whole person ’ rhetoric do exist , but to find your way , as a teacher , to the one that suits is , in these egalitarian and bureaucratic days , often a hit and miss affair . |
| 8 | The numbers are painted with a reflective substance which leaves flash pictures over exposed . |
| 9 | This is where the forces of the earth are exposed with a dramatic clarity and where billion-year old rocks , deposited at a time when seas extended right across the valley give the stark harshness of the area a startling and a rare and sometimes unexpected beauty at different times of the day . |
| 10 | But other places are experimenting with a different mechanism : controlling the market . |
| 11 | ‘ However , we are reasonable people and if we are approached with a reasonable alternative , we would be prepared to listen . ’ |
| 12 | However much the family cling to their culture and security , the younger generation at work and school are grappling with a different set of realities ; the wisdom of the older family member may be less acceptable . |
| 13 | After preparing the meat , make sure the work surfaces or chopping board which have been in contact with raw meat and poultry are disinfected with a germ-killing product such as Domestos Multi Surface Cleaner , before going on to prepare salad stuffs and vegetables . |
| 14 | Edison 's belief was that atoms are possessed with a certain intelligence , and Max Planck , the great German scientist , has remarked : ‘ I regard matter as derivative from consciousness . |
| 15 | When α scans are done with a reduced scattering angle θ , peaks from shadowing are observed . |
| 16 | The ever broadening range of involvement by government departments makes it difficult to trace the evolution of policy through Whitehall or to interpret decision making in development planning , and researchers are presented with a bewildering complexity of sources which hinders efficient and economic research . |
| 17 | Multi-national pharmaceutical companies , already powerful in the provision of the tools of the medical model , are presented with a golden opportunity by the development of a single European market . |
| 18 | You are presented with a blank crossword and a list of clues , and as you click on a square the relevant clue is highlighted . |
| 19 | When you join the Golf Plus Club , as a member you are presented with a free book of privilege vouchers that offer substantial discounts on a whole range of golf products and services . |
| 20 | GUIs are built with a point-and-click palette and canvas aided by a menu builder , icon painter and colour tools . |
| 21 | My protests are met with a simple choice . |
| 22 | Very often such cheeses are made with a vegetarian rennet and natural sea salt . |
| 23 | NIGEL Clough knows perhaps better than anyone how England are flirting with a losing game that can become a terminal habit . |
| 24 | On finding a page , you 're presented with a short subgame , which inevitable involves getting from one corner of the ( static ) screen to another , avoiding anything that moves — succeed , and the page is yours . |
| 25 | ‘ It has proved reliable , and the fact that it is four-wheel drive is very handy if you 're coping with a greasy slipway or launching off a beach , ’ says Peaks . |
| 26 | At the moment we 're dealing with a general purpose system , which is designed for all sorts of applications , and one pays for having a thing general purpose by costing more money . |
| 27 | If we 're dealing with a front page horror story that 's exactly what your journalist is gon na have to do otherwise his editor says it 's not good enough you know go away , rewrite it and you got shock 'em you got ta make 'em cry and you 're not , not yet |
| 28 | So what we have , if I can paint it like this , is a development programme which does n't just rely on Oxfordshire Social Services putting cash into it , because there are , if we manage this process properly , other people who we can encourage to bring money into Oxfordshire , but the key thing that 'll only do it is if they 're confident that they 're dealing with a competent organization and somebody that they trust and they have some form of credibility . |
| 29 | When you 're dealing with a specific proposal . |
| 30 | I think anybody who teaches in the creative arts has this [ rapport ] with kids , because it 's emotionally based … whereas if you 're dealing with a factual subject , a scientific subject , you 're dealing more with things and objects and reactions . |