Example sentences of "[is] fill with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temperature is bitterly cold , the chamber is filled with freezing fog , and drifting towards the adventurers to surround them come the soul pupae . |
| 2 | The world is filled with sad women who put a brave face on their unhappiness , even on a tropical island . |
| 3 | The Welsh Prestige Stamp Book is filled with evocative photographs of Wales . |
| 4 | On either side of this scene there crouches a human watcher and the air is filled with small birds — thirty-one of them altogether . |
| 5 | From the cover cartoon of John Major , labelled ‘ Yesterday 's man — the vanishing Prime Minister ’ it is filled with ill-chosen invective . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The mind is filled with floating images of the utmost brilliance . |
| 8 | Decorated with Disney 's best loved characters — such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck — the Teethe & Cool is filled with sanitised water . |
| 9 | The suggestion is that the whole of the Universe is filled with virtual particles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the chamber is filled with combustible fuel and a mouth pressure pipe is attached , a needle-thin jet of liquid is produced . |
| 12 | The bag is filled with religious tracts already autographed ; the first thing he does every day at six , when he gets up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One of its unusual features is the later window in the façade which is filled with decorative marble plates instead of glass ( PLATE 46 ) . |
| 15 | She checks daily that her changing bag is filled with essential and spare clothes and leaves it permanently packed in the hall ready to pick up at a moment 's notice so she 's never caught unprepared . |
| 16 | It is held in a double-skinned tank which is filled with hot water to raise the temperature of the milk . |
| 17 | The sky turns greyish-brown and ( he air is filled with fine red-brown dust . |
| 18 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 19 | Another process is sometimes adopted for getting rid of the sediment without the trouble of decanting in this mode ; the bottles are reserved in a frame proper for the purpose , for a certain number of days , so as to permit the foulness to fall into the neck ; while in this position , the cork is dexterously withdrawn and that portion of the wine that is foul , allowed to escape , after which the bottle is filled with clear wine , permanently corked and secured with wire . |
| 20 | To make one , a pie dish lined with shortcrust pastry is filled with sliced cooking apples sprinkled with demerara sugar and topped with slices of cheese . |
| 21 | Particular to graphite intercalation compounds is their tendency to form periodically stacked high-stage compounds in which only a fraction of the interlayer spaces of the graphite host lattice is filled with intercalated layers . |
| 22 | At breeding colonies air is filled with deafening cries of ‘ kitt-ee-wayke ’ , also has a low ‘ uk-uk-uk ’ and a wailing note . |
| 23 | One fully automatic greenhouse is filled with flowering and foliage pot-plants ; round the perimeter carnations , alstroemerias and freesias are being grown for cut flowers using the latest cultivation techniques . |
| 24 | ‘ This pool is filled with freshwater crocodiles and water pythons but they do n't bother us so we did n't tell you . ’ |
| 25 | The cable car journey to the top is the longest in the Alps and the whole journey is filled with breathtaking scenery . |
| 26 | Most of the tank is served by an undergravel system but there 's also an external power filter , in the shape of a Fluval 403 , which is filled with ceramic rings and carbon . |
| 27 | The day time is filled with fun and laughter , |
| 28 | As he looked towards the Iconostasis , the wall that is filled with important and unique icons , he tried to re-create his grandfather 's torment , his inner pain and despair . |
| 29 | The cell is filled with heavy water ( shown as dots ) and is surrounded by a bath of ordinary water to maintain constant temperature . |
| 30 | The northern half of this room is filled with surgical implements in racks , preserved body parts , anatomical diagrams and plates , flasks of liquids , and similar apparatus . |