Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 2 | The Review covers some 90 countries , which are listed alphabetically with a resumé of the press and general media situation in each country . |
| 3 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 4 | They dispense justice , settle land disputes , give orders to civil servants ( which are carried out with an alacrity unknown earlier ) . |
| 5 | Some drivers whose tyre tread is below the new legal limit have been let off with a caution … others face prosecution . |
| 6 | We are presented therefore with a list of all the owners of land in the manor . |
| 7 | Constitutional fundamentals have been opened up with a vengeance . |
| 8 | Damp stained the walls , which had , long ago , been papered brownly with a pattern of leaves . |
| 9 | The original concern for out-of-school education is evident in the way objectives are defined in terms of utility. : threshold level specifications are drawn up with an eye to meeting the needs of learners as eventual participants in contexts of communicative interaction , rather than with a concern to activate the actual learning process itself . |
| 10 | Contracts are drawn up with an eye to flexibility and a contract is often considered an agreement to enter into a general course of conduct rather than something fixing precise terms . |
| 11 | The history of Venice has long been bound up with a pageant of ships . |
| 12 | My suggestion to Angus , while we were dishwashing after the battle , that maybe his food could have been injected somehow with a substance that even now could be working away to the detriment of everyone 's health was received by him with frosty amusement . |
| 13 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 14 | A new high-profile lobbying organization has been set up with a view to rasing environmental issues in the European Commission . |
| 15 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 16 | Polarisation means there will be an end to the practice of claiming to be an independent financial intermediary when in fact 80–90 per cent of a firms policies are set up with a parent organisation . |
| 17 | He had been brought up with a lot of fine furniture and had always been conscious of its value . |
| 18 | Yet , as the latest troubles with Olympia & York and the Tokyo stock market remind us , the recession shows no sign of ending and could get a lot worse unless real interest rates are brought down with a bang — and that means willingness to put the exchange rate mechanism second to domestic monetary policy . |
| 19 | In the de-horning operation , the horns are sawn off with a chainsaw after the rhino has been located by trackers on the ground and darted with tranquillizing drugs from a helicopter . |
| 20 | A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw . |
| 21 | Directions as to how to use the aid should also be given together with a discussion of the circumstances in which its use is likely to be helpful . |
| 22 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 23 | This material must be checked thoroughly with a language assistant before it is used . |
| 24 | Anxious that his client might be mixed up with a terrorist organisation . |
| 25 | The Palestinians , meanwhile , are to be fobbed off with a degree of internal autonomy — as was proposed in the original Camp David agreements of 1978 , brokered by Jimmy Carter , between Israeli premier Menachim Begin and the Egyptian president , Anwar Sadat . |
| 26 | Lloyd George discovered in 1919 , as Law had done in 1914 , that a Unionist party that had given its total commitment to a cause would not be fobbed off with a compromise . |
| 27 | Other fabrics should be closely woven , firm and colourfast , and must be stiffened either with an aerosol spray applied to both sides of the fabric , or by dipping into a liquid stiffening solution . |
| 28 | The probe map can easily be edited manually with a text editor to modifiy the positions of misplaced probes using additional information ( e.g. genetic map ) . |
| 29 | In such cases , although adult reaction and response to questions and discussion can not be expected , I feel that the child can be approached directly with a view to exploring the significance of the behaviour to himself or herself . |
| 30 | Our advice is that , where hedgerows are to be replaced , they should not be substituted just with a row of quickthorn between two strands of barbed wire , but with a mixed , proper , traditional hedge — which would be much better for the environment and habitat . |