Example sentences of "be [verb] with [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music .
2 So a Pacific as defined by such minds might fall within the appropriate longitudes and latitudes , but it would be riddled with holes , a discontinuous mess , a collection of unconnected pieces of sea and land established principally to prove an argument about an entity of which they make up only a fraction .
3 And surviving missals and other documents of the Celtic Church prove to be riddled with excerpts from Judaic apocryphal books and additional texts which had long and rigorously been forbidden by Rome .
4 And , in all probability , their imaginations will , as they say , boggle because , as you have never seen that scene in your mind 's eye , it may well be riddled with improbabilities if it is not a downright impossibility .
5 But those innocent-looking sarnies could be riddled with bacteria , such as listeria , Salmonella and Staphylococcus .
6 This kills the tiny parasite , which can then be withdrawn with tweezers and the wound treated by immersion in a solution of malachite green to prevent secondary fungal infection .
7 The following FBI investigation focused on Robert Wayne O'Ferrell , a junk dealer in Enterprise , Alabama , who denied any involvement but was said to be helping with inquiries .
8 Although some of the groups would clearly not be competing with others for the same kind of housing ( for example , families with two or more children versus single applicants ) , there are potentially 25 different queues .
9 I think this appeal should be dismissed with costs .
10 In my opinion , therefore , this appeal fails and should be dismissed with costs .
11 Like many people on both sides of the conflict , de Gaulle recognized that the Second World War was a war which had to be waged with words and images as well as guns and bombs .
12 For the individual the Ka was not essentially eternal in the new life but needed to be sustained with offerings of food and drink and all good things .
13 That the Traverse concourse and bar should be bedecked with posters for a brand of vodka seems to be a peculiarly sick joke in the circumstances .
14 Three-dimensional networks can also be formed with polyesters if they are unsaturated and mixed with an unsaturated monomer , such as styrene , which polymerizes by addition , cross-linking to the points of unsaturation of the polyester .
15 The external roof and upper storey walls should be examined with binoculars .
16 The building would be built of stone and there would be niches in the outside walls to be filled with statues of dissenting saints like Cromwell .
17 She says that the canons used to be filled with nails , nuts and bolts etc and they could cut a man in half .
18 The morning was growing , lengthening into a day , a long day to be filled with acts of kindness .
19 The cupboards would be filled with linens , the beds made , the kitchen equipped with pots , pans , kettle and toaster , the ashtrays in place in the majlis , books on the shelves and a row of tapes and videos waiting to be played .
20 She saw the red plush benches which would be filled with students next week , and she ached to be amongst them .
21 His wagon was incomplete : he wished for the floor cavity to be filled with coins before hibernating in his velvet-lined nest .
22 Troughs outside the kitchen can be filled with chives , marjoram , thyme and sage in one trough , and parsley , mints , borage , French sorrel and lemon balm in another , depending on space available .
23 Memory of a basket to be filled with blackberries .
24 Go any day to the Blue Lagoon , a curious place of billowing steam clouds and science-fiction B-movie film-set machinery , and the place will be filled with Americans , all of them covered in sulphur when they emerge .
25 She was terrified that if she poured out the tale to her husband now , he would be filled with doubts as to the extent of her previous involvement with Davis .
26 School subjects are all worthwhile but the time-table is filled and many of these subjects are pre-empting spaces that could be filled with subjects much more relevant to the modern world .
27 The cultivation of love is to think of all things as lovers , and the whole mind should be pervaded with thoughts of love .
28 Perhaps , more than any other drug , it promoted to the general public ideas about new ‘ tranquillizers ’ , and did more to establish the questionable notion that anxiety could be banished with pills .
29 Centres must be registered with LCCI and only those holding recognised and acceptable qualifications will be authorised to carry out assessment .
30 Again , there are elements of Klein 's work which may be aligned with ideas explored in the previous chapters .
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