Example sentences of "be [verb] with the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In India , up to a quarter of total cultivable waters are infested with the weed . |
| 9 | In many cases teachers have been indoctrinated with the view that it is not their job to encourage competitive sports . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge . |
| 14 | Some people in the liberal Free Democratic party , the junior partner in the government , had been toying with the idea of switching their support to the Social Democrats after December . |
| 15 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 16 | Before Henderson went to Russia Lloyd George himself had been toying with the idea that a Stockholm conference might help to keep Russia in the war . |
| 17 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 18 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 19 | ‘ No , he had been toying with the idea of proposing to Fiona , whom he had known all his life and whom he liked . |
| 20 | The AFBD has not been treated with the seriousness it deserves by bodies as powerful as the London International Financial Futures Exchange . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This aspect of Jewish intellectual life has never been treated with the attention it deserves . |
| 23 | Sometimes on Sundays he would take her to the fields where he had been helping with the harvest , to see the rabbits , or a nest of mice . |
| 24 | Twelve hundred and twenty jobs are to go with the closure of the Ravenscraig steel works in Scotland . |
| 25 | 42 jobs are to go with the closure of accountacy firm KPMG Peat Marwick in Cheltenham . |
| 26 | Up to fourteen hundred defence jobs are to go with the closure of the Portland naval base and a cutback in the workload at Portsmouth . |
| 27 | The rugby club are helping with the organisation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Providing support generally in a class where most children are struggling with the work , discouraged or disaffected . |
| 30 | Of 11,200 audit firms listed on the audit register , almost 9,200 ( 82% ) are registered with the ICAEW . |