Example sentences of "[be] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 2 | And yet that part of the interview could have been dismissed with a laugh in five seconds . |
| 3 | Saturday was sunny and bright , and any claim that the match would be settled by tomorrow evening would have been dismissed with a scornful cackle . |
| 4 | John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies . |
| 5 | The house had been furnished with a lot of money badly spent in a mixture of styles . |
| 6 | David Edward Hughes , whose experiments with the ‘ printing telegraph ’ led to the development of an efficient microphone during the 1870's , has been honoured with a plaque at his former lodgings . |
| 7 | It continued to be so through more than two decades , and then — in the mid-1980s — it seemed , almost inexplicably , to be secure no longer , despite his having only recently been honoured with a knighthood for services to literature . |
| 8 | A Guisborough professor 's research work has been honoured with a new post at Teesside Polytechnic . |
| 9 | Since that time the productivity of the top 20 per cent of farmers has been sustained with a continuous record of technical improvement ; about 40 per cent have maintained a level of productivity which enables them to generate an acceptable income ; and a further 40 per cent have continued to produce enough for their own household 's subsistence requirements . |
| 10 | MEN WITH high blood pressure who are treated with a beta blocker drug are less likely to suffer sudden death from a heart attack , a new 11-country study has shown . |
| 11 | Make sure they are treated with a wood preservative before nailing or screwing to the frame . |
| 12 | The Roman authorities are treated with a respect which is almost excusing them from any responsibility . |
| 13 | They are usually very well made , and although there are always some relatively shoddy examples on the market , the vast majority are extremely durable ; provided they are treated with a reasonable degree of care , they will last for many years . |
| 14 | In patients with an in situ gall bladder the risks of biliary related problems are higher although they are in keeping with the general incidence in patients who are treated with a sphincterotomy and successful duct clearance . |
| 15 | Blue skies are criss-crossed with a network of overhead wires . |
| 16 | If you are on a camping holiday and are stopped with a penknife or sheath knife on your belt and a rucksack on your back , most policemen would accept that you need the knife for camping . |
| 17 | Why had the two men been favoured with a sound of the supernatural ? |
| 18 | Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million . |
| 19 | The investigations of the small mammal faunas from Westbury cave have been undertaken with a view to interpreting their palaeoecology . |
| 20 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 21 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 22 | How will follow up and rehabilitation services for patients who have undergone joint replacements be organized if the surgical contract has been placed with a hospital some distance away from the DHA ? |
| 23 | There is a big difference between the terms that you may be able to negotiate with , say , a US company seeking to recruit you to work in the Middle East and those offered by , say , a West German company offering a job at their headquarters , for which you are competing with a West German national . |
| 24 | But Lord Justice Neill , sitting with Mr Justice Roch , said that Adrian Massingberd-Mundy had been treated with a ‘ surprising lack of courtesy ’ by the Jockey Club . |
| 25 | You have been treated with a severe mercy . |
| 26 | This is partly because the textiles and coverings have been treated with a sodium borate solution ( to increase their resistance to fire ) which has had an adverse effect on their appearance , and partly because most of the paintwork needs renewing . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , they have been treated with a contact-poison form of Manbane . |
| 28 | Foreigners , since the earliest times , have been required to live in special residential areas and have been treated with a good deal of suspicion and hostility by ordinary Russians as well as by government officials . |
| 29 | On that occasion he had been treated with a degree of courtesy not far short of deference and he had subconsciously expected the same of his interview with Chief Inspector Golding . |
| 30 | This completed , the holes are charged with explosive , then all are joined with a detonator cord ring main . |