Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What is common to these and related responses is that if we take the starting of the wipers to be an effect we believe at least that there is some type of circumstance which is uniformly connected with the wipers ' starting .
2 A touching 86% agreed that ‘ sex is most fulfilling with the person you love ’ .
3 But quite apart from this , the very concept of an ontological existent , qua " ontological " , is analytically interlinked with the concept of individuality .
4 Yet our everyday understanding of this term is intimately connected with the idea of choice .
5 At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ .
6 It is intimately connected with the offence .
7 The study of technology is important in its own right , but it also deepens our understanding of a society as a whole because it is intimately connected with the way in which people are organised and the structure of their economy .
8 ‘ The history of marine science is intimately associated with the development of techniques for obtaining the raw data and with the vessels from which the observations were made .
9 The growth of Sunk Island is intimately linked with the Gylby family who , for almost 200 years leased it from the Crown , embanking it as it increased in size .
10 Theory appraisal is intimately linked with the circumstances under which a theory first makes its appearance .
11 The difference between the colours is all to do with the distances between the humps and dips .
12 But there , the distance between the humps and dips is all to do with the pitch of the note-the note that we hear .
13 Every bend reveals another staggering visual feast and it is all to do with the light , the dynamic mountain ridges , the pure white sandy beaches and the undisturbed peace .
14 However , it is sprightly compared with the pronouncement on ‘ automatic honours for public servants ’ by Richard Shepherd , the Conservative MP : ‘ It almost has the quality of handing out lollipops to the general satisfaction of the recipients . ’
15 Shirai 's voice here seems to have taken on a new dimension , a darker tonal colour , a new expressiveness that is constantly compelling with the emphasis on the drama .
16 The Bullock Committee found that ‘ [ t ] he role of a board varies from company to company and is constantly changing with the requirements of business .
17 Age Clearly the age of the child is highly associated with the occurrence of bedwetting .
18 So the writer of police procedurals is basically faced with the task of making what is in life dull into reading that is as far as possible exciting .
19 Locke is rightly identified with the development of liberal political thought , and so , by a common mode of thinking , his name is also linked to the idea of democracy .
20 During this interval any person may intervene to show cause , on the ground of , e.g. , the suppression of material facts , why the decree should not be made absolute , and a public officer , the Queen 's Proctor , is especially charged with the duty of intervening .
21 Unfortunately it seems that it has been the agricultural ministry which has won the debate , and Britain is merely tinkering with the problem .
22 Once he introduces them , the linguist can not simply retreat into claiming that he is only dealing with the abstractions of descriptive linguistics .
23 This new album , in particular , is so imbued with the loss of an ebbing innocence that it can be hard to believe they were written by another person .
24 The trial is so entangled with the standing of the ANC that the right-wing Conservative Party has blamed the ‘ state intelligence service ’ for the disappearance of an important state witness ; the party 's argument was that the government wanted to persuade whites of the virtue of negotiations with the ANC , and found the trial embarrassing .
25 The grid street plan is believed to have originated earlier and further east , possibly in Mesopotamia , but the concept is familiarly associated with the name of Hippodamos , a Greek philosopher and town planner who lived in the early fifth century B.C. This is due to Aristotle who ascribed its invention to Hippodamos who was born in Miletos .
26 The acoustic wavelength is long compared with the wavelength of the instability , and the fluid thus experiences a periodic disturbance of negligible phase variation .
27 But first let us follow up the possibility that the problem is entirely to do with the estimate .
28 One of them , it was pointed out to him , was the great ex-Soviet chess player , Korchnoi , who is apparently training with the team in order to reach maximum physical fitness for his world title challenge to his arch-rival , the darling of the Soviets , Karpov .
29 The new town is literally blooming with the growth that foreign investment has brought .
30 But in fact every creative and inventive and imaginative activity ( including that of inventing new tools ) is better done with the help of ‘ technology ’ , and so a failure to familiarize children at school with the use of such technology inhibits their imaginative potential , as well as making them incompetent and virtually unemployable when they leave school .
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