Example sentences of "is [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a pseudo-sophistication in our understanding of sexuality and its relation to human actions , for we have not grasped how very difficult it is to cope with all its manifestations . |
| 2 | To our church came such spiritual giants as Rev Reginald Barlett of Samoa , and the South Seas , Miss Mabel Shaw of Mbershi , whose adopted daughter is helping with modern Zambia , a housewoman from Dr Ida Scudder 's hospital at Velore , central India and a missionary from China who knew about the conditions there and in Hong Kong , and who had also met Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan and knew that , in very truth , this son of a Geisha and who knows who , was a world figure , now pleading at the League of Nations for more attention to World Health than to armaments . |
| 3 | Finally it is blended with 10 year old Balsamic vinegar to give its distinctive dark , sweet , rich flavour . |
| 4 | The classic way to provide for school fees is to invest with one of the major life companies , which will pay out money each term when fees are due . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Britain , most sewage sludge comes from cities and is contaminated with industrial waste from which toxic metals can not be economically removed . |
| 7 | But , whilst she 's hiding , Anna sees the stranger bathe in a stream which she knows is contaminated with radio-active fallout . |
| 8 | ‘ If the river is contaminated with toxic waste then there is every possibility all river life would be killed off for generations . ’ |
| 9 | The result is music which is overloaded with restless movement of little significance . |
| 10 | The whole world is criss-crossed with causal arrows joining genes to phenotypic effects , far and near . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Like any wide expanse of sea , the Pacific Ocean is criss-crossed with commercial air-routes . |
| 13 | The temperature is bitterly cold , the chamber is filled with freezing fog , and drifting towards the adventurers to surround them come the soul pupae . |
| 14 | The world is filled with sad women who put a brave face on their unhappiness , even on a tropical island . |
| 15 | The Welsh Prestige Stamp Book is filled with evocative photographs of Wales . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | On either side of this scene there crouches a human watcher and the air is filled with small birds — thirty-one of them altogether . |
| 18 | From the cover cartoon of John Major , labelled ‘ Yesterday 's man — the vanishing Prime Minister ’ it is filled with ill-chosen invective . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The mind is filled with floating images of the utmost brilliance . |
| 21 | Decorated with Disney 's best loved characters — such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck — the Teethe & Cool is filled with sanitised water . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | The book is filled with such incidents . |
| 24 | Thus the appearance of a double door is created , although the actual opening is only of single-door width and is filled with one large panel of clear double-glazing . |
| 25 | The suggestion is that the whole of the Universe is filled with virtual particles . |
| 26 | The air is filled with cut-glass as handsome women in the prime of life peck at each other 's cheeks and cry welcome ; their heavily built , blue-suited , florid-faced husbands exchange boxers ' handshakes with a contrived , Golf Club conviviality . |
| 27 | If the chamber is filled with combustible fuel and a mouth pressure pipe is attached , a needle-thin jet of liquid is produced . |
| 28 | The bag is filled with religious tracts already autographed ; the first thing he does every day at six , when he gets up . |
| 29 | The room , which looks west over the garage far below , is filled with cream-painted and decorated furniture that matches the hanging cupboard in the lobby . |
| 30 | One of its unusual features is the later window in the façade which is filled with decorative marble plates instead of glass ( PLATE 46 ) . |