Example sentences of "[be] [verb] with the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 7 | It also oxygenates the water on warm summer nights or in thundery weather at a time when the fish are competing with the plants for oxygen . |
| 8 | and they are helping with the children in the house , I mean , they ca n't do much more ! |
| 9 | A UK parent company with wholly-owned subsidiaries is itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of a US parent company whose securities are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 10 | Its many rooms , all ten inches high , are filled with the memorabilia of childhood and family life , and the housekeeper 's bed-sitting room and the linen room are also there . |
| 11 | Further south still the mountains between Mad Dog Pass and the quiescent volcano of Fire Mountain are riddled with the lairs of Goblins and Orcs . |
| 12 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 13 | Petra to me had been listed with the Pyramids , Timbuktu , Venice , Hadrian 's Wall and Troy as places that I had to visit before I died . |
| 14 | The first round of the National Clubs competition has now been completed with the holders Linden , of Birmingham , drawn against Nottingham 's Cliftonettes in the second round . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Wright has been transforming his management team , which has recently been completed with the additions of Reg Broughton from ICL , functioning as vice president of OEM sales and marketing and Carl Baldini , a founder of server start-up Enterprise Technology , as vice president of engineering . |
| 16 | The walls of Belgo are embossed with the names of Rabelaisian fish that read like insults : ‘ Coldeel , Begginback , Cocklicrane , Assface . ’ |
| 17 | Auditors are normally concerned with ensuring that the accounts of a firm are an accurate record of its financial position and that employers or directors have not been absconding with the funds or ‘ fiddling the books ’ . |
| 18 | Quality is improved and costs reduced if the components are designed with the suppliers ' most efficient manufacturing process in mind . |
| 19 | Limits on enhanced annual premiums ( Sheep Annual Premium and Suckler Cow Premium ) are recommended with the payments ‘ restricted to farmers who are unable to fatten lambs regularly or where the cows are grazing unimproved land over the summer months ’ , a complex arrangement to administer . |
| 20 | When these are included with the trainees the ratio becomes 1 consultant to 1.08 assistants . |
| 21 | Dauberval 's exclusion from the Académie Royale ( later the Paris Opera ) was justified by those in charge because they felt his idea of making farmers , peasants and the like the heroes and heroines of his ballets was beneath the dignity of an opera house whose stage had hitherto been occupied with the deeds of noble heroes , heroines and courts . |
| 22 | The young Francis had been educated with the sons of the better class of tradesmen . |
| 23 | This ‘ front-back ’ pattern of fungal distribution has been observed in many variations among a number of insect groups , supporting the contention that insects are inoculated with the spores of their respective fungi during copulation . |
| 24 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 25 | The two countries ' Foreign Ministers had been presented with the proposals by Pérez de Cuéllar at the ninth Non-aligned Movement ( NAM ) summit earlier in the month [ see p. 36907 ] . |
| 26 | Not for nothing is water polo an Italian expression to describe business life : the fouls are done with the feet under the water where the umpire can not see them . ’ |
| 27 | Single-year goods are matched with the revenues that they generate . |
| 28 | It has to be acknowledged that there is some potential risk attaching to this , particularly where the buyers are covenanting with the sellers , but such risk appears to be part of the price that conveyancers are prepared to pay for working within the commercial pressures in the modern conveyancing market . |
| 29 | When parents are presented with the blocks from which their children must select their GCSE subjects , they realise it is now impossible to avoid choosing one , or probably two , of the sciences . |
| 30 | At this level of affinity we are presented with the idiosyncrasies of more than one individual style , ( where the compatibility of these styles is great ) , or with one comprehensive style which appears to exclude others . |