Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] 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 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The walls of Belgo are embossed with the names of Rabelaisian fish that read like insults : ‘ Coldeel , Begginback , Cocklicrane , Assface . ’ |
| 13 | Quality is improved and costs reduced if the components are designed with the suppliers ' most efficient manufacturing process in mind . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When these are included with the trainees the ratio becomes 1 consultant to 1.08 assistants . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The young Francis had been educated with the sons of the better class of tradesmen . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | … 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Single-year goods are matched with the revenues that they generate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As narrow gauge steam locomotives have proved impossible to find in this country , contact has been made with the authorities in Poland where extensive closures of their systems in recent times will provide examples . |
| 26 | More than one treaty is known to have been made with the Burgundians , although some may not have had imperial approval . |
| 27 | The video has been written with the interests and expectations of the young adult learner firmly in mind . |
| 28 | The ZIBF Bookshop , through which Zimbabwean book buyers are able to pay for imported books in local currency , is being expanded , and an application has been lodged with the authorities for a significantly increased foreign currency allocation . |
| 29 | The debates between advocates of single-tier and two-tier local government are , therefore , conducted within an atmosphere in which the relative merits of the two different systems for the values of efficiency and democracy are infused with the expectations of party or local advantage . |
| 30 | We write this report from the standpoint of teachers of children with severe learning difficulties and many of our observations are made with the needs of these children in mind . |