Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 2 | Have they been competing with one another all their lives ? |
| 3 | A number of the tournaments to which you refer in your article had reduced entries because they are conflicted with other new events and not because of deteriorating interest . |
| 4 | that employees are entitled to use reasonable force as a means of self defence when they are threatened with physical harm and unable to reasonably consider escape . |
| 5 | To offset the emotional effects of their unnatural life-style they often require tranquillizers , and to ensure commercially satisfactory levels of meat production they are injected with anabolic — that is , body-building — steroid hormones . |
| 6 | The limitations of QACs are of less significance when they are compounded with other products with which they can exert a synergistic effect . |
| 7 | In the Trichoptera and the Dipterous family Psychodidae , for example , they are closely covered with hairs , while in the Lepidoptera they are invested with overlapping scales . |
| 8 | Top quality bags will have no visible stitching on the shells as they are made with internal seams . |
| 9 | Both cheeses are slightly unusual in as much as they are made with cooked curds that have been heated in the whey for about 30min before being drained . |
| 10 | Beware of ‘ sugar-free ’ commercial products such as cakes and jams , especially those from healthfood shops — often they are made with fruit-juice concentrate and are just as rich in natural fruit sugars as if they were made with cane or beet sugar . |
| 11 | If they are filled with progressive rubbish , they should demand from the headmaster and governors that they should return to traditional structured learning so that their children will have a fair chance . |
| 12 | These phospholipids form polymers when they are irradiated with ultraviolet light ( Scheme 1 ) . |
| 13 | They are blessed with good humour and bring luck to mortal miners by knocking at spots behind the seam faces where rich ore lodes may be found . |
| 14 | Models may be termed ‘ hot ’ or ‘ cold ’ depending on whether they are fitted with integral heaters . |
| 15 | For parents , it is only too long a period of encumbrance and handicap during which they are saddled with young who demand continual feeding , who reduce their freedom and regularly expose them to danger . |
| 16 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 17 | The larger agencies supplying secretarial and office staff in the metropolitan areas , primarily because they are competing with one another for scarce labour , are increasingly offering the sort of fringe benefits associated with employment . |
| 18 | But badgers ' often show up better than most , and because they are endowed with stout claws on their front feet , there may be four or five distinct claw-marks showing even if the ground is too hard to reveal the rest of the print . |
| 19 | These deeply ingrained socially appropriate patterns of thought and behaviour we call ‘ norms ’ , since they are endowed with normative force and moral value by their adherents . |
| 20 | If , for example , they are tested with full-strength or even half-strength milk , they show no preference for the more or the less sweetened examples . |
| 21 | They are compared with two of the diurnal raptors listed in Tables 2.1 and 2.4 and seven mammalian carnivores ( Tables 2.1 and 2.5 ) . |
| 22 | Curves plotted according to this simple analysis are shown in figure 10.4 where they are compared with experimental data obtained for various tactic forms of poly ( α-methyl styrene ) . |
| 23 | A SCHEME for appraising teachers ' performance is being delayed because they are overloaded with extra work for the national curriculum and school budgets , writes Ngaio Crequer . |
| 24 | Acts undertaken for another purpose and not in order to consent can constitute consent if undertaken in the belief that they will confer a right or impose a duty and if the fact that they are undertaken with such a belief is the reason for them having this result . |
| 25 | They are packed with concentrated food to fuel the young plants throughout the first stages of their growth until they are able , with their leaves , to manufacture food for themselves . |
| 26 | But do n't go too near them — they are covered with stinging hairs . |
| 27 | They are covered with poisonous hairs or have within their bodies a particularly acrid-tasting substance . |
| 28 | They are contrasted with secondary sources , which are data got at second hand ; i.e. sets of data culled from other people 's original data . |
| 29 | Tears come from the deepest emotions , from joy and beauty and often they are tinged with nostalgic sadness . |
| 30 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |