Example sentences of "is [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His biggest problem , of course , is to cope with demand . |
| 2 | We now have two new people involved with bringing you the news — Anne Seaton , away up in Scotland , who is helping with page three 's editing and Victoria Osborne , from Surrey , in a more general way , her first contribution is the report of our very successful Reunion held last November . |
| 3 | The charm of his style , the persuasiveness of his appeal to history , the breadth of his understanding , the way in which earnestness is blended with joyfulness in his religion — and all things pervaded by reason and good sense — have won disciples for Hooker in all subsequent generations . |
| 4 | Cocoa butter is blended with sugar and flavourings and , sometimes , milk powder to produce confectionery , or is further processed to remove the fat , leaving cocoa powder . |
| 5 | In practice the younger the child , the more likely it is to go with mum , and seventeen out of every twenty children do so . |
| 6 | Throughout , the old lady sits silent , hands on lap , eyes on agitated thumbs and as she looks up to witness the man 's retreat her tear-streaked face is racked with pain . |
| 7 | This relief is calculated with reference to an assumed general rate liability for 1990/91 which is £248 . |
| 8 | ‘ Aunt Minna , ’ says Rainbow , softly , gently , sweetly , patiently , ‘ it is pissing with rain . |
| 9 | The whole area around the Realm of Chaos is polluted with magic . |
| 10 | Water running off the maize fields is contaminated with dieldrin , then drunk by cattle . |
| 11 | Soil near uranium mines in Bulgaria is contaminated with radioactivity , according to a study by the National Centre for Radiobiology and Radiological Protection . |
| 12 | Already it has been demonstrated that groundwater abstraction is high relative to the theoretical renewable resource , and that much of the groundwater is contaminated with nitrate . |
| 13 | In most cases metal is joined with metal , whether it is riveted , soldered or welded . |
| 14 | When running a football club one had to take into account the overall strength of the squad , and , to quote Norman Hunter ‘ Leeds is overloaded with midfield players and this is a good deal for the club ’ . |
| 15 | Time to reperfusion is delayed with restoration of anterograde coronary flow requiring on average 45 min or more from start of therapy . |
| 16 | The chain is pre-packed with grease and virtually maintenance free . |
| 17 | The New Sculpture is written off as ‘ a meaningless period in English sculpture ’ ; Gill is ‘ more like a predator than a collaborator ’ and even his typography is dismissed with contempt ; we hear twice that Muirhead Bone , a steadfast and astute supporter , was an unimaginative artist ; Charles Holden 's London Transport Headquarters at 55 Broadway ( for which he received the RIBA Medal ) is ‘ practical but dull ’ ; and the love-hate relationship with Moore is superficially handled . |
| 18 | A TERRACED HOUSE IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS IS FILLED WITH FRUITWOOD FURNITURE AND FOLK ART , THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILL AND ANGELA PAGE . |
| 19 | The base of the glass is filled with water which just touches the bottom of the bulb . |
| 20 | But in the confined part of the aquifer , the spaces between mineral grains , every pore in fact , is filled with water : there is no unsaturated zone . |
| 21 | The drum is filled with water and mix ingredients , the lid is screwed on , and the Odjob is rolled back and forth for 30–90 seconds to mix the ingredients . |
| 22 | The pool is filled with water and bubbles and the kids scoot down the slide attached to the climbing frame into the bubble bath and the arms of a playworker who picks up one of the children and kisses his little red bum . |
| 23 | He appears to have had a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle similar to E , but the later part of his work is filled with romance , and might seem to belong to what has been called the twelfth-century fictionalising history best exemplified by Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Britonum . |
| 24 | He lies in a cot equipped with a special mattress which is filled with liquid ; he lies on so resilient a surface that it is very close to actually lying in liquid , as of course the unborn infant does . |
| 25 | On all sides the air is filled with music and a mixture of languages as young people from all over Europe get together to enjoy the pleasures of this picturesque resort that has so much to offer in such a small space — last year we counted over 15 different hostelries , none more than five minutes walk from each other ! |
| 26 | Often , the space between intercalated ions is filled with solvent molecules ; in this case the name or formula of the solvent compound is inserted after that of the electropositive constituent , otherwise it is added after that of the intercalated species . |
| 27 | And as he walks away they , he 's ran because his lorry is filled with petrol and they blow it up . |
| 28 | There is a Scottish proverb which puts its point delightfully : ‘ The covetous man will never have enough — until his mouth is filled with mould . ’ |
| 29 | Most of the room is filled with metal frames which hold marble troughs , and inside most of the troughs are piles of stinking , rancid yellow fat . |
| 30 | It 's just started to snow here and the snow is filled with ice cold rain its horrible ! |