Example sentences of "[is] [verb] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The seven year old who shows outstanding promise when playing the violin , the eight year old who is fascinated with negative numbers , the four year old who can read fluently , the eleven year old who can design computer programmes … must have these gifts cherished , not have them dismissed or confined .
2 The whole world is criss-crossed with causal arrows joining genes to phenotypic effects , far and near .
3 The area surrounding Weavers is criss-crossed with many bridlepaths and footpaths , including the Old Pilgrims Way , a path running from Winchester to Canterbury , which starts just 200 yards from the house and runs along the top of the Downs .
4 Like any wide expanse of sea , the Pacific Ocean is criss-crossed with commercial air-routes .
5 The world is filled with sad women who put a brave face on their unhappiness , even on a tropical island .
6 The Welsh Prestige Stamp Book is filled with evocative photographs of Wales .
7 Drop it down , in this Pentiford yep , ours is filled with all sorts of gear , for instance decontamination , you know erm after a , a chemical incidence you 've got to clean yourself off without contaminating everybody else , and you can do this within a pod , it 's been so designed that you can walk in one way dirty , and walk out another way clean , and
8 On either side of this scene there crouches a human watcher and the air is filled with small birds — thirty-one of them altogether .
9 Her story is filled with fascinating accounts of her daily observation , which reveal many extraordinary secrets of rhino behaviour : how they communicate by subtle changes in their breathing patterns , and how amicably they live together most of the time .
10 The mind is filled with floating images of the utmost brilliance .
11 The book is filled with such incidents .
12 ‘ You might say that Chung Kuo is filled with such men — blind , wicked , greedy creatures who see their blindness as strength , their wickedness as necessity , their greed as historical process . ’
13 The suggestion is that the whole of the Universe is filled with virtual particles .
14 The bag is filled with religious tracts already autographed ; the first thing he does every day at six , when he gets up .
15 Particular to graphite intercalation compounds is their tendency to form periodically stacked high-stage compounds in which only a fraction of the interlayer spaces of the graphite host lattice is filled with intercalated layers .
16 At breeding colonies air is filled with deafening cries of ‘ kitt-ee-wayke ’ , also has a low ‘ uk-uk-uk ’ and a wailing note .
17 ‘ Yes , but the road from Al Ain is filled with more visitors .
18 ‘ This pool is filled with freshwater crocodiles and water pythons but they do n't bother us so we did n't tell you . ’
19 Most of the tank is served by an undergravel system but there 's also an external power filter , in the shape of a Fluval 403 , which is filled with ceramic rings and carbon .
20 The northern half of this room is filled with surgical implements in racks , preserved body parts , anatomical diagrams and plates , flasks of liquids , and similar apparatus .
21 Here a great trough that is filled with Caenozoic sediments in northern Java and Sumatra ( where a sediment supply was available ) passes directly into a deep oceanic trough — the famous Flores Deep — where there was no such supply .
22 Eastbourne is filled with nursing homes in Victorian mansions with names like ‘ The Gables ’ . ’
23 The idea is that space-time is filled with little loops , like pieces of string .
24 Once the adsorbent surface of the nose is filled with odorant molecules , however , it becomes saturated and no ‘ stronger ’ smell will be perceived , even though the concentration of the odorant may increase .
25 The airport at Singapore is like any other except that it is filled with white men wearing long shorts .
26 When a medical condition is taken as central to Disabled people 's lives , every thing is tinged with therapeutic objectives .
27 Had Armstrong bothered to look in the government 's own internal telephone directory ( the Government Telecommunications Network ) , he would have found that MI6 is listed with four addresses .
28 The home is modestly plain inside with the radio as the only luxury and the Taylor family conversation is punctuated with constant references to the hardships of the depression , the debts that had been accumulated , the struggle to get the mechanic 's job in the factory , and the need for Frank to get the foreman 's job if there is to be further improvement .
29 Each of these peculiar histories is punctuated with peculiar rhythms and can only be known on condition that we have defined the concept of the specificity of its historical temporality and its punctuations ( continuous development , revolutions , breaks , etc . ) .
30 And it may be a comforting thought to some that an Australian company is experimenting with eco-friendly coffins made of newspapers , which are cheap and biodegradable .
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