Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 2 | They do not seem to be burdened with the same difficulties as the private profession , presumably partly because of the different image of the agency involved and the different expectations of the client involved . |
| 3 | But to be faced with the short-term threat of redundancy at the hands of private contractors brought in by the health authority would mean that they might feel subject to a considerable degree of provocation . |
| 4 | Those authorities continued to be faced with the same issues of escalating costs and deteriorating quality of service within the institutions . |
| 5 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 6 | 1988 the Reina Sofía tries to clarify it mission : works are to come from the Museo Español de arte contemporaneo ( MEAC ) , to be joined with the modern holdings of the Prado , including ‘ Guernica ’ ( see p. 19 ) . |
| 7 | This shows that the Bristol & West is behind you , and says you 're a genuine , serious house-hunter , with real buying power — to be treated with the greatest respect ! |
| 8 | As the restructuring of the armed services proceeds , the displaced and redundant service men will continue to be treated with the utmost care and sensitivity , as the Prime Minister is well aware . |
| 9 | BMK became the first carpet manufacturer in Britain to be registered with the 1987 version of British Standard 5750 for Quality Assurance . |
| 10 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 11 | He says that in some parts of the country , car boot sales have to be registered with the local authority , this could help . |
| 12 | The written word always has a special sanctity and more so if it is from a contemporary source , but it needs to be examined with the same ruthless and objective scrutiny as given to the archaeological evidence . |
| 13 | She must have known that anyone who tries to convey a message in rock music is brushed aside as being pompous or bombastic , because journalists in their King 's Reach Ivory Towers think rock is too sacrosanct to be tainted with the real world . |
| 14 | the training executive will also agree the training programme to be undertaken with the new manager . |
| 15 | After an introduction by the presenter , who usually speculates on the issues likely to be raised with the Prime Minister that day ( a tiresome waste of time , especially as he is frequently wrong ) , the programme goes live , with only minimum commentary , till about 3.48 pm when the presenter returns to summarize the exchanges ( another waste of time ) . |
| 16 | It has to be connected with the front door key . |
| 17 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll phone the hotel to check the time of Garry 's arrival , ’ he said and , picking up the phone , he asked to be connected with the Crowned Head . |
| 19 | On May 7 a woman protester was killed by a ricochet bullet shot from the gun of a gendarme in a demonstration at an arms factory ( Poudreries Réunies de Belgique ) alleged to be connected with the Iraqi supergun affair . |
| 20 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 21 | that the Hague Convention is to be employed with the involuntary deposition of a party conducted in a foreign country , and with the production of documents or other evidence gathered from persons or entities in the foreign country who are not subject to the court 's in personam jurisdiction . |
| 22 | I sensed the warmth screaming out of the atmosphere to be replaced with the absolute zero of his clinical persona but I could n't stop myself . |
| 23 | The Edinburgh student appeared too consistent and resilient for Miss Topper who seemed to be struggling with the slippery court , and she triumphed 3–6 6–1 6–3 an impressive achievement for a No. 7 seed . |
| 24 | Often has the aching brow of royalty resigned its crown , to be decked with the soothing chaplet of the shepherd swain . |
| 25 | The new gearbox , 57III504 , had to be fitted with the 4 x 2 bell housing to mate to the 2.2 BMC diesel engine using a Phillips conversion kit . |
| 26 | The Clio is the only Renault car to be fitted with the 1.2-litre Energy engine . |
| 27 | The Mitsubishi Mirage Cyborg R type ( below ) is the first car to be fitted with the lean-burn 178bhp 1.6-litre MIVEC engine . |
| 28 | My choice had to be made with the greatest care and the most alert diagnostic skill . |
| 29 | The results of their work will be of considerable interest , and will permit important comparisons to be made with the late-glacial flora and vegetation of Skye ( Birks , 1973 ; Walker et al. , 1988 ) and Mull ( Lowe and Walker , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | Morris Rosen , of the IAEA , says that the outside study — the first to be conducted with the full co-operation of the Soviet government — ran immediately into technical problems . |