Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has already invested large sums of money in engineering crops that resist insect pests and the climatic extremes expected to come with global warming |
| 2 | In a Andean Declaration on the initiative , the participants agreed to work with other Latin American countries and the USA in order to formulate the necessary mechanisms to bring it into existence . |
| 3 | This was the third Cabinet change since September [ see pp. 37702-03 ] and was thought to reflect growing tensions within the government as it tried to cope with military setbacks in the current civil war , an economic crisis and mounting social unrest , especially in the capital Mogadishu [ see pp. 37767-68 ] . |
| 4 | Irrigation ditches like thin strips of sky ran away through the flat fields where figures bent to work with short hoes . |
| 5 | Mosley now tried to collaborate with other anti-war forces , but to little avail although this activity was to prove disastrous for the BUF in 1940 . |
| 6 | AA protein was identified by positive staining with anti-AA antibody and sensitivity to KMnO 4 reaction , while AL protein failed to stain with anti-AA , anti-Β 2 -microglobulin , and anti-prealbumin antibodies , and was resistant to KMnO 4 reaction . |
| 7 | At times the self image presented by these women in their paintings seemed to dovetail with Surrealist expectations . |
| 8 | In the later Middle Ages canonists and theologians came to see with increasing clarity some of the objections to this view ; and throughout the Middle Ages Christian money-lenders had their ways of evading it . |
| 9 | She had , it appeared , been out on the knocker , ‘ like all of you , ladies and gentlemen ’ , an activity which seemed to meet with universal approval . |
| 10 | The afternoon and evening seemed to pass with agonizing slowness , yet , when the time came for Maurice 's departure , it felt to Charlotte as if it had crept up and taken them by surprise . |
| 11 | For a final moment the inflamed bruise on his left calf where the scorpion had stung him a week before seemed to blaze with new agonizing fire . |
| 12 | He fell , and the Manchu 's final stroke seemed to descend with unstoppable fury . |
| 13 | " I learnt to live with other people when I was in the Services , but when you 've paid for your own room and it is n't your domain you feel insecure . |
| 14 | He looked like one of the carefree devils he had carved , with his fat , cheery face , snub nose and large blue eyes which seemed to dance with wicked merriment . |
| 15 | Section 5 , enacted to deal with Fascist marches in the East End of London , had become unsatisfactory for several reasons . |
| 16 | Robert Oakley , a former US ambassador to Somalia appointed to negotiate with Somali factions , relief organizations and UN representatives , had reportedly warned the main Somali leaders in Mogadishu-Gen . |
| 17 | This was a cost-effective method , but failed to deal with non-clustered accidents scattered throughout residential streets , with locations that changed from year to year . |
| 18 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the government singled out ‘ peace studies ’ for criticism , saying that it had no place on the school curriculum because it failed to deal with certain issues in a balanced and objective manner . |
| 19 | But what has the arbitrariness of the decoupage got to do with human fallibility ? |
| 20 | At this point it would be fair to ask : what has all the work on the avoidance of shock and poisons got to do with social behaviour ? |
| 21 | Shells now began to fall with increasing regularity among closely packed men . |
| 22 | He began to shake with suppressed laughter . |
| 23 | She stopped as he began to shake with suppressed laughter , then added indignantly , ‘ I 'm serious , Robert . |
| 24 | She jerked a mouthful from between the spars and began to chew with quiet satisfaction . |
| 25 | At this point the market began to bulge with new and lower priced devices such as the ImageMaker with its idiosyncratic optical font wheel , the Montage FR1 and the promised but rarely seen Mirus — a company in which Apple holds a 20% stake . |
| 26 | Fifteen minutes on , the screen began to vibrate with full frontal , graphic scenes of the passionate coupling of Lena Olins and Ron Silver . |
| 27 | The six women — all nuns — cried out ‘ Independence for Tibet ’ and began to walk with short but determined steps around the clockwise circuit of the Barkhor temple . |
| 28 | But , taking its cue from the Flowers Report , the industry began to look with renewed vigour for somewhere to get rid of its most troublesome detritus . |
| 29 | Christmas was approaching and the shop windows began to fill with seasonal tableaux . |
| 30 | The walls of the cavern where Margaret was sitting began to ooze with digestive juices , pungent with the smell of sulphur , and the quicklime of the morgue . |