Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My son is rather young to speak with authority , but I believe that if his grandfather his namesake were here , he would agree , too . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The story of Shinwell 's defection is more difficult to establish with accuracy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | It is very difficult to say with certainty what they were at any particular moment . |