Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [is] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So Frye is a one-time KGB mole who 's slept with drab Duckham 's ex-wife à la Bill Haydon and George Smiley .
2 In addition , a challenge may be issued by a person who is prosecuted with one of the offences to be considered that the conditions were improperly imposed in the first place .
3 he has knowingly obtained ( whether directly or indirectly ) that information from another individual who is connected with that company , or was at any time in the six months preceding the obtaining of that information , so connected , and who the tippee knows or has reasonable cause to believe , held the information by virtue of being so connected ; and he
4 Partly , this is because the author rightly recognizes that many users of the Statute Book approach it in a different way from a judge who is presented with two opposing interpretations with supporting arguments .
5 Under section 6(3) , a defendant who is charged with sexual intercourse with a girl who is over 13 and under 16 may avail himself of what is commonly referred to as ‘ the young man 's defence . ’
6 The hon. Member for Norwich , South ( Mr. Garrett ) , who is charged with improving Labour 's performance in the south of England , denounced his party 's proposals in forceful terms .
7 Anyone who is charged with running classes , sections of schools or whole schools needs to be aware of what those assumptions are and of their effects .
8 They and Damjanovic 's wife , who is charged with lesser offences , were led into the packed courtroom in handcuffs amid heavy security and the flash of cameras .
9 Who is to say with any show of reason whether to place history or , say , political philosophy in one category or the other ?
10 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 .
11 When she does , he finds a shirt , puts it on , then turns to Isaac , who is playing with one of Asaad 's toy cars .
12 It is no exaggeration to add that among graduates of the Department , Noel Thomas remains the member of staff who is remembered with most affection .
13 Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , who is liaising with anti-terrorist officers , said : ‘ We ca n't say with any certainty that we have found them all . ’
14 We think of a being who shows various emotions towards creation — love , wrath , anger , sorrow , mercy and so on — and who is associated with particular activities that we think of as actions taken by persons , such as judgement .
15 Though doubtless partly motivated by a desire to draw the reader away from his own personal life , Eliot was serious in pointing out that , ‘ Anyone who is acquainted with these works [ of Weston and Frazer ] will immediately recognize in the poem certain references to vegetation ceremonies ’ , which , as in the quatrain poems , were associated with religion and human sexuality .
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