Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ( 3 ) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions , regard may be had to the previous conduct and activities in business or financial matters of the person in question and , in particular , to any evidence that he has — ( a ) committed an offence involving fraud or other dishonesty or violence ; ( b ) contravened any provision made by or under any enactment appearing to the Bank to be designed for protecting members of the public against financial loss due to dishonesty , incompetence or malpractice … ( c ) engaged in any business practices appearing to the Bank to be deceitful or oppressive or otherwise improper ( whether unlawful or not ) or which otherwise reflect discredit on his method of conducting business ; ( d ) engaged in or been associated with any other business practices or otherwise conducted himself in such a way as to cast doubt on his competence and soundness of judgement .
2 Vogue wheels should not be fitted to earlier Range Rovers unless the wheel studs are marked with a line on the end or are replaced with new ones .
3 Her middle could hold loose goods to 250 cubic metres or be replaced with any one of seventeen styles of container .
4 Many of these species also occur in gardens and may , like the mints , survive from former gardens or be introduced with dumped garden refuse .
5 More significant , having demonstrated their contempt for charity , they began to develop their own benefit clubs for mutual protection , among them the " Sailors ' Fund " founded at South Shields in 1798 and intended to aid " those that shall suffer by shipwreck or capture or be afflicted with any sickness , accidental misfortune , infirmity or old age " .
6 You qualify by paying or being credited with national insurance contributions .
7 Where possible , only buy bleaches , disinfectants and floor cleaners that are fitted with childproof caps .
8 This is the group that are dealing with passive behaviour .
9 In fact they can be seen as the difficulties that are faced with young people generally : how far should they be allowed ( encouraged ? ) to take risks and learn for themselves and how far should they be guided by those who ‘ know best ’ ?
10 Its steep sides are thronged with Goblin strongholds and its rocky slopes overlay caves and tunnels that are riddled with evil creatures .
11 That are filling with burning ashes .
12 The problems that are encountered with enumerative classification schemes can be identified as follows :
13 With leaves that are streaked with bright cream or marked in bold , gold blotches , a little goes a long way .
14 Our results show that these genes rapidly respond to exposure to retinoic acid at preheadfold stages and undergo a progressive series of changes in segmental expression that are associated with specific phenotypes in hindbrain of first branchial arch .
15 Concerning the choice between contingent benefits ( those based on a particular status , e.g. being unemployed , a single parent , disabled ) that are associated with typical welfare state provision and the apparently simple income-related means-tested benefits , there is a general point to be made .
16 However , the ordered pair of functions ( f1 and f2 ) that are associated with each node for possible text assignment , can only be judged from a vantage point external to the communicative situation .
17 Examination of factors that are associated with still birth or late fetal mortality is particularly relevant from the viewpoint of optimum conditions of childbearing .
18 Thermodynamic data indicate that single strands of DNA and RNA form single stranded helices in solution that are associated with large adverse entropy changes that can be largely attributed to the cost of ordering the phosphate backbone .
19 The science of biomaterials and the success of future applications depends upon the improved understanding of the various phenomena that are associated with these interfacial reactions , collectively described under the heading of biocompatibility .
20 Instead of focusing on this interdependence , as one would expect of a truly dynamic theory , Williamson discusses the efficient resolution of contractual problems that are associated with given techniques of production .
21 It also happens to have very valuable timber , and the Chilean government is anxious to profit from the dead trees that are interspersed with living ones in the few remaining areas of forest where alerce still occurs .
22 In contrast , the dolphins that are equipped with good sets of teeth , and the porpoises , which have 13–28 pairs of spade-shaped teeth in each jaw , have a less flexible neck because their neck vertebrae are fused together .
23 Coelomic cells are derived from the extra-embryonic mesoderm , and thus there may be fewer problems with pseudomosaicism than are encountered with trophoblastic cell preparations .
24 It would have been far better to have at least made the attempt — even if it might have ended in disaster — than be left with such intense regrets and nostalgia for what might have been .
25 Much of my activity was directed to firm advice to the Prime Minister and various other ministers to ignore scurrilous communications that were received with great frequency .
26 When we examine animals with nervous systems that were built with conditional rules for dealing with the external environment , the business of predicting how they will respond on the basis of knowing how they were made becomes impossible .
27 Younger Palestinians — Palestinians who were born in Lebanon , for example — can remember how their parents angrily threw the keys away in the early 1950s , how the documents that were guarded with such care in the initial days of exile were mislaid or destroyed as their true meaning became clear ; because they proved ownership of a world that had disappeared .
28 In other moods she would go to bed for days , and have trays sent up to her room that were laden with stingy nursery snacks of mashed fish and junket .
29 Bcl-2-overexpressing cell lines were isolated by selecting G418-resistant clones of pt and cells that were infected with Zip-bcl-2 ( ref. 26 ) ( T.M. and J.C.R. , manuscript in preparation ) .
30 Interestingly , it does feed into some of the later ideas that were associated with computational modelling , I E using computers to recognise objects on model processes , in particular perceptual ones .
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