Example sentences of "[be] [verb] with [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And yet that part of the interview could have been dismissed with a laugh in five seconds . |
6 | 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 ! |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The house had been furnished with a lot of money badly spent in a mixture of styles . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 : |
14 | This is a scheme whereby unemployed people who require to learn new skills or brush up former skills are placed with an employer for an agreed period of time to achieve those skills . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
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 | Make sure they are treated with a wood preservative before nailing or screwing to the frame . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The Roman authorities are treated with a respect which is almost excusing them from any responsibility . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Blue skies are criss-crossed with a network of overhead wires . |
24 | In India , up to a quarter of total cultivable waters are infested with the weed . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | In many cases teachers have been indoctrinated with the view that it is not their job to encourage competitive sports . |
27 | Why had the two men been favoured with a sound of the supernatural ? |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |