Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What I find so extraordinary is that Opposition Members are so keen to place with trade unions abroad so much of the authority on labour law matters that resides in this House .
2 Corpus-based systems are easily able to deal with punctuation .
3 Members range from beginners to experienced artists , and as such , the latter are always willing to help with advice if the former get ‘ stuck ’ .
4 Thirty years ago this change would have been more likely to coincide with marriage ; today it coincides with becoming a parent , and its significance may be underrated as maternity leave holds open the option of a very early return to work .
5 A survey has shown that children who suffer upper-respiratory-tract infections and middle-ear infections are more likely to present with management problems and temper tantrums than children who have not suffered these illnesses ( Bax et al .
6 Since then I have progressed and I am now able to waitress with confidence .
7 This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing architectures already share common notions in these areas and most are now able to deal with software that is written to either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering styles .
8 This is processor-independent stuff , according to Heath , who says most Reduced Instruction Set Computing ( RISC ) architectures already share common notions in these areas and most are now able to deal with software that is written to either Big Endian or Little Endian byte ordering styles .
9 In sum , it enables the body to be most able to deal with danger and to be most efficient physically .
10 John Coon , DG 's UK marketing manager , says Technology will be better able to cope with support , and also has a large stock of peripherals on hand .
11 Where the witness is also a party to the proceedings , the courts will be less eager to dispense with attendance .
12 getting intoxicated is always potentially dangerous : people may become more reckless than usual and be less able to deal with danger
13 The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn .
14 Computers for commercial data.processing , where the assumption may be invalid and where an accumulator would have to be very long to deal with character string data formats , tend to use the two-address format and not provide an accumulator .
15 Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm .
16 Teenage mothers are least able to cope with motherhood , being often themselves emotionally immature and sometimes physically immature ( Russell 1981 ) .
17 ACCORDING to the Unit Trust Association , the impact on unit trust PEPs of the changes announced in the Budget are almost impossible to predict with certainty .
18 Though it would be some time before he was released from hospital , he was already better and we were all able to relax with relief .
19 In 825 the Mercians were heavily defeated by the West Saxons , and were subsequently unable to cope with Viking raids .
20 ‘ My son is rather young to speak with authority , but I believe that if his grandfather his namesake were here , he would agree , too .
21 Of course , it is still necessary to proceed with therapy to help overcome the fear itself , but no barrier of inferiority or failure has to be overcome .
22 The story of Shinwell 's defection is more difficult to establish with accuracy .
23 The dogmatic approach spells death to the delicate business of transferring enthusiasm from the librarian to the reader ; the slantwise , almost casual introduction is more likely to meet with success .
24 The predominant conventions of the adventure story , the victory of good over evil and the happy ending , have led to a subtle demotion of the genre from the highest ranks of literature on the grounds that its main aim is a contrived entertainment ; for experience suggests , often though not invariably , that the challenge of adventure is more likely to meet with disaster and defeat than survival and triumph .
25 Without the proper equipment — stiff-soled boots , crampons and ice axes — and the experience in using them , it is virtually impossible to cope with neve .
26 Now that Ferrari is virtually certain to stay with Goodyear in 1992 , Pirelli is courting Benneton with promises of ‘ exclusive ’ tyres that would not be available to other ‘ customer ’ teams .
27 ‘ It is doubly difficult to deal with AIDS in a country like Britain where there is still an understandable reluctance to have frank and open discussions on emotional issues .
28 It is relatively easy to tell with clothing or fishing reels , even shotgun cartridges have different loadings , but surely an artist 's paintbrush is an artist 's paintbrush ?
29 There seems no readiness in our government to listen and learn for argument , no capacity for trust and no ability to face the facts which include the vital issues morale and motivation , ways of running things which you simply ca n't put down to cost accountants , but which is absolutely essential to do with solidarity and caring and so on to make things actually work , and as for economics , whenever econor economy from the Germans , upwards or downwards so to speak , is in trouble the future is clearly frightening is n't it ?
30 It is very difficult to say with certainty what they were at any particular moment .
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