Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] with the [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 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In India , up to a quarter of total cultivable waters are infested with the weed . |
| 13 | In many cases teachers have been indoctrinated with the view that it is not their job to encourage competitive sports . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Historians have been fascinated with the event and have written extensively on its causes , meticulously recorded the events , and speculated about the consequences of its collapse for British industrial relations . |
| 17 | He had been the youngest ever to head the ancient , honourable Fiana ; there had been seven years within its ranks only , and he had been intoxicated with the knowledge . |
| 18 | The AFBD has not been treated with the seriousness it deserves by bodies as powerful as the London International Financial Futures Exchange . |
| 19 | He , who had been fêted in Munich , had talked with the elector and other noblemen , and been treated with the respect due to a great artist , now had to take his place in the archiepiscopal pecking-order — below the valets , and only slightly higher than the cooks . |
| 20 | This aspect of Jewish intellectual life has never been treated with the attention it deserves . |
| 21 | A rectangular placenta and a baby about half an inch long with a heart but no face are implanted with the aid of forceps and speculum . |
| 22 | Of 11,200 audit firms listed on the audit register , almost 9,200 ( 82% ) are registered with the ICAEW . |
| 23 | If the Blue Parrot is a company the names of the directors of the company are registered with the Registrar of Companies ( ss. 10–13 Companies Act 1985 ) ( see p. 46 ) . |
| 24 | Private nursing homes are registered with the district health authority , and the Registered Nursing Homes Association will have details about the facilities ( addresses on pages 155–6 ) . |
| 25 | I have found that employers who are registered with the CITB feel that it is unfair if other companies which have set up just down the road do not appear to be on the board 's records . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Check that they are registered with the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 28 | Now that we meet here , we are filled with the wonder of this gathering . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The disk is not allowed access until it has been validated with the Disknet check program . |