Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There may be 32m cars on the road in a country of 123m people — but , as yet , only 6% of them are fitted with compact-disc players .
2 Rereading More Women than Men , I ask myself each time whether the relations between them are suggested with extreme subtlety , or whether something is lacking .
3 The disk is round , sack-like and often raised up , diameter up to 9 mm ; covered with small semi-transparent scales , many of them are armed with large simple rods .
4 Make sure that yours are fitted with all possible locks and are constructed of unbreakable glass .
5 Make sure yours are fitted with adequate locks
6 The two basic postulates of SR are as follows : firstly the laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames , i.e. in all frames which are moving with constant velocity with respect to the frame of the distant galaxies ; secondly the velocity of light is a constant c .
7 During the selection process berries are bounced along shaking conveyor belts which are crossed with four inch high wooden barriers — they must be fresh and firm enough to bounce over the boards .
8 However , if there are no firms which are dealing with employment-related claims , then that is an area well worth targeting .
9 In spite of the power and continuing influence of Skinner 's ideas , it is important that Verbal Behaviour is seen more in terms of a set of claims or predictions , which are illustrated with anecdotal evidence and hypothetical examples , rather than a theory which has been tested against research evidence .
10 Effective and profitable national M&A practices which enjoy the support of local senior management and which are invested with sufficient professional and technical resources to allow the provision of an appropriate scope of M&A advisory services .
11 There are up to 8 rugose arm spines which are invested with thickened skin .
12 With the exception of the ground floor on the north and south sides , which are fitted with French casement doors , the windows are all sliding sashes double hung with lines and weights .
13 Those churches which are blessed with good human and material resources may have a number of music leaders and musicians .
14 French polish is usually a dark brown colour , but as a collective noun it includes button , white , transparent and garnet polishes , which are made with various types of shellac .
15 Deregulation of health and safety legislation and ‘ training initiatives ’ which are bracketed with inner city policy , as with Employment Training in the UK , enforce labour discipline as an integral part of urban regeneration ( Trippier , 1989 ) and share many of the same assumptions as the ‘ workfare ’ models of welfare/labour market regulation in the USA .
16 It is ideally placed for exploring the Cotswolds , which are dotted with beautiful old towns and villages famed for their warm golden limestone buildings — Bourton-on-the-Water , Stow-on-the-Wold , Chipping Campden and Broadway are all a delight to stroll through .
17 Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism .
18 No er allegations of erm concerning the correct , his driving er , are made by the pro prosecution er as a result of the incident but er , as a result of the officer 's enquiries er , it came to light that Mr was er , in breach of some of the er , other regulations regarding road uses and so the summonses which are to deal with this morning have er have been issued against him .
19 We are not told that these are part of a continuing ritual , but we are encouraged to treat them as such by the similarity present in the three meetings which are connected with each other further by the Shakespearian language applied to each .
20 This does not imply acceptance of an order which are dealt with subject to availability .
21 Are we to concur with Stevenson 's conclusion ( 1981 ) that ‘ it is hard to see how we can escape in general in organization of service from the broad client groupings , now so deeply entrenched in social service provision and in the linkages which are required with other professions ’ ( p. 100 ) , and if so how are we to select client group(s) ?
22 And as the numbers of porpoises have dwindled , they have fished local dolphin populations , in particular dusky dolphins , most of which are caught with small driftnets .
23 Some species , like the satin bowerbird , construct avenue-shaped bowers , which are decorated with all sorts of items — snail shells , flowers , pebbles and an array of bits and pieces .
24 Tarot is even more complex with 78 cards , 22 of which are decorated with highly-symbolic pictures with names like The Hanging Man , the Pope , the Devil , the Lovers , Judgement , and an untitled image of death .
25 Probation orders which are combined with constructive , disciplined and effective programmes of supervision are increasingly being used for offenders who stand to receive custodial sentences ( 1990b , p. 35 ) .
26 If you stay in the same place then the whole process of sexual reproduction means that indeed there are uniform populations which are hybridizing with one another and then barriers to other hybridizing population , but not if you move about .
27 She is perfectly at home among the painterly detritus of her St John 's Wood studio , the walls of which are lined with ancient reference books about art , the legacy of a former tenant .
28 Moreover , British society has been characterized by significant ‘ sub-national ’ cultures — Scottish , Welsh , Irish — which are interwoven with linguistic and religious differences .
29 More will be said about this in Chapter 2 , but it is necessary here to make a distinction between my comparisons and those which are associated with traditional case studies , including the case study material presented by Dickens et al .
30 Indeed , if it should turn out that the tropics are thermostatically stabilized , then changes in forcing which are associated with little change in dynamic heat flux are likely to cause very little global change .
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