Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [be] [vb pp] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arches will never be seen in their original form again ; To preserve them against the increased exposure to the elements which lowering the water level will bring , they 're to be sprayed with a fine layer of protective concrete , leaving no visible sign of their remarkable survival . |
| 2 | They are to be replaced with a cheaper type of brick to be covered in a special layer and painted in a new light colour . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , it looks like we are to be blessed with a PowerPC consortium by April . |
| 4 | ‘ Over the next two years , these same people are to be faced with a rise of 25pc for domestic fuel — VAT at 17.5pc plus 3pc or 4pc price rises each year — then obviously there must be a significant increase in pensions and benefits in order for them to be able to pay . ’ |
| 5 | ROADS across Britain are to be boosted with a £1 billion improvement package . |
| 6 | Sentencers are to be provided with a range of tougher non-custodial punishments . |
| 7 | The Institute would be in a strong position , and the NVQ Committee would decide how assessments were to be done with a City and Guilds involvement . |
| 8 | In the temporary absence of the Warden it would save possible inconvenience if a spare key were to be left with a friend or neighbour . |
| 9 | The Labour Party energy spokesperson said that it would be " quite outrageous if the public were to be left with a liability of anything like £6,600 million when the profit to fund that liability [ was ] being passed to the private sector " . |
| 10 | Existing low profit products were to be corrected with a cost reduction and profit improvement plan , or chased out where such improvements were not economically feasible . |
| 11 | THE Duke of Roxburghe is to be presented with a splendid new £3,500 desk made from timber on his Roxburghshire estate , Floors Castle . |
| 12 | An enthusiast , on the contrary , entertains lofty notions of himself and degrading conceptions of the Deity : he conceives that the course of nature is to be regulated with a view to his own interest … |
| 13 | If the pool is to be made with a liner there is no difficulty , for all that need be done , is order the liner larger than needed for the pool and incorporate it at the edge as if it were a spreading shallow pool about 30 cm ( 1 ft ) deep ( Fig 14 ) . |
| 14 | The best method of removing old finishes from wood that is to be re-finished with a transparent or semitransparent coating , is with a solvent paint and varnish remover . |
| 15 | STEVE NICOL 'S successful Liverpool career is to be rewarded with a testimonial , writes Philip McNulty . |
| 16 | This first phase ( 1934–9 ) is to be contrasted with a subsequent postwar phase ( 1945–56 ) , corresponding almost exactly with the lifespan of the French Fourth Republic and characterised in contrast by the bitter and polarized struggle of the Cold War period , a moment of relentless anti-communism in the Western world , a moment of uncompromising Zhdanovism in the Soviet sphere , when the cultural production of the French communist party was envisaged exclusively as a legitimate and necessary line of defence against an increasingly hostile capitalist onslaught . |
| 17 | Between 1193 and 1201 it is possible that he is to be identified with a master Elias , steward to Gilbert de Glanville , bishop of Rochester [ q.v. ] , a close friend and kinsman of Hubert Walter . |
| 18 | Less likely , but by no means impossible , is the suggestion that he is to be identified with a man named master Elias the engineer , or Elias of Oxford , who prior to 1201 had charge of the king 's houses in Oxford and of various castle-building operations across southern England . |
| 19 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 20 | instead , every writer is to be issued with a sampler in coloured wools to hang over the fireplace . |
| 21 | Most people ignored this commandment , although I have heard it said that Pike was to be seen with a compass on a number of occasions , trying to align himself correctly . |
| 22 | The game was to be decided with a nervewracking penalty shoot out … |
| 23 | Nicholson teamed up with his friend and former flatmate Don Devlin to write the script for a film called Thunder Island , a thriller which was to be shot with a tiny budget on a Caribbean island . |
| 24 | After the dinner , each of the Heads of State was to be presented with a small Luctian art form . |
| 25 | But it differed from the earlier plan in its concentration on the inter-city and suburban commuter services for which there was high demand , and it was to be achieved with a falling labour force rather than an expanding one . |
| 26 | The anniversary was to be celebrated with a torchlit procession , military parade and fireworks . |