Example sentences of "[be] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water shortage faced by thousands of refugees in Jordan has been eased with the help of the Oxford based charity Oxfam . |
| 2 | The remains of water-mills have been consistently removed ; the weirs which hold up river levels have been dismantled ; and mill-ponds and mill-races have been filled with the dredgings . |
| 3 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 4 | I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly . |
| 5 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 6 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 7 | Earlier in the season the prospect of a French Championship final between Toulon and Biarritz would have been dismissed with the words : C'est fou ! |
| 8 | The lower reaches of the Sevre Niortaise are swollen with the waters that once covered the whole area , until medieval monks started to dig a spider-web of ditches to drain it . |
| 9 | To make matters worse any chance of ventilation had been stopped with the use of many pairs of tights or balls of newspaper stuffed into every hole , nook or cranny . |
| 10 | Police say the device bears all the hallmarks of the IRA and officers are liasing with the Anti Terrorist Squad … |
| 11 | Sainsburys say the company 's medical staff are liasing with the local council.No employees will be allowed back to work until the infection has cleared up . |
| 12 | A NORTH-east farmer wants a few wise men from Scotland to take a behind-the-scenes look at farming in EC member states to see how counterparts are faring with the rules and regulations . |
| 13 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 14 | The original blood has been blended with the blood of Turks and Slavs and others , but the face in a modern Athens street or a rural corner of the Peloponnese is not a face from Istanbul or Belgrade . |
| 15 | These include the Hops Marketing Board and the Nature Conservancy Council , for example , and are justified with the argument that certain functions can best be carried out at arm 's length from central government : |
| 16 | So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten . |
| 17 | On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it . |
| 18 | All these guitars have slim necks , which helps to make the beginner 's life easier , and providing they are treated with the same care and respect as more expensive instruments , they should give good service for many years . |
| 19 | ‘ However , matters of security are treated with the utmost seriousness and the strongest action will be taken against the passenger concerned . ’ |
| 20 | Your ideas and comments are received by , managing director of , personally , and are treated with the strictest confidence . |
| 21 | It 's astonishing how some formalities have stayed on , even through the mean and hungry 1980s , for no apparent reason than that they were always done , while in other areas of activity important people are treated with the utmost disdain — or worse , with complete new-fangled insincerity . |
| 22 | After fermentation , ‘ free run ’ wine is drawn off and the skins are pressed to extract further juice and tannin , which are blended with the ‘ free run ’ . |
| 23 | The improvement and refinement of classification at the Library of Congress are undertaken with the recognition that any change will affect the location of previously classified books . |
| 24 | In India , up to a quarter of total cultivable waters are infested with the weed . |
| 25 | In many cases teachers have been indoctrinated with the view that it is not their job to encourage competitive sports . |
| 26 | The pagan world was familiar with the widespread beliefs that sexual contact between man and woman hindered the soul 's rise to higher things , and even that one who has been favoured with the love of a god ought to forgo mortal love . |
| 27 | So long as Artai remained unmarried it was important to the self-esteem of each of them to demonstrate that while neither she nor her family had thus far been favoured with the Kha-Khan 's selection , yet she was capable of exercising influence . |
| 28 | Historians have been fascinated with the event and have written extensively on its causes , meticulously recorded the events , and speculated about the consequences of its collapse for British industrial relations . |
| 29 | Modern artists have long been fascinated with the comic strip : MoMA 's ‘ High and Low ’ show a while back provided a primer on the subject . |
| 30 | He had been the youngest ever to head the ancient , honourable Fiana ; there had been seven years within its ranks only , and he had been intoxicated with the knowledge . |