Example sentences of "be [verb] with [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water shortage faced by thousands of refugees in Jordan has been eased with the help of the Oxford based charity Oxfam . |
| 2 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 3 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 4 | And yet that part of the interview could have been dismissed with a laugh in five seconds . |
| 5 | To make matters worse any chance of ventilation had been stopped with the use of many pairs of tights or balls of newspaper stuffed into every hole , nook or cranny . |
| 6 | The house had been furnished with a lot of money badly spent in a mixture of styles . |
| 7 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 8 | The original blood has been blended with the blood of Turks and Slavs and others , but the face in a modern Athens street or a rural corner of the Peloponnese is not a face from Istanbul or Belgrade . |
| 9 | This is a scheme whereby unemployed people who require to learn new skills or brush up former skills are placed with an employer for an agreed period of time to achieve those skills . |
| 10 | David Edward Hughes , whose experiments with the ‘ printing telegraph ’ led to the development of an efficient microphone during the 1870's , has been honoured with a plaque at his former lodgings . |
| 11 | It continued to be so through more than two decades , and then — in the mid-1980s — it seemed , almost inexplicably , to be secure no longer , despite his having only recently been honoured with a knighthood for services to literature . |
| 12 | Blue skies are criss-crossed with a network of overhead wires . |
| 13 | Why had the two men been favoured with a sound of the supernatural ? |
| 14 | The pagan world was familiar with the widespread beliefs that sexual contact between man and woman hindered the soul 's rise to higher things , and even that one who has been favoured with the love of a god ought to forgo mortal love . |
| 15 | Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge . |
| 16 | Some people in the liberal Free Democratic party , the junior partner in the government , had been toying with the idea of switching their support to the Social Democrats after December . |
| 17 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 18 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 19 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 20 | ‘ No , he had been toying with the idea of proposing to Fiona , whom he had known all his life and whom he liked . |
| 21 | The investigations of the small mammal faunas from Westbury cave have been undertaken with a view to interpreting their palaeoecology . |
| 22 | It also oxygenates the water on warm summer nights or in thundery weather at a time when the fish are competing with the plants for oxygen . |
| 23 | On that occasion he had been treated with a degree of courtesy not far short of deference and he had subconsciously expected the same of his interview with Chief Inspector Golding . |
| 24 | Twelve hundred and twenty jobs are to go with the closure of the Ravenscraig steel works in Scotland . |
| 25 | 42 jobs are to go with the closure of accountacy firm KPMG Peat Marwick in Cheltenham . |
| 26 | Up to fourteen hundred defence jobs are to go with the closure of the Portland naval base and a cutback in the workload at Portsmouth . |
| 27 | and they are helping with the children in the house , I mean , they ca n't do much more ! |
| 28 | If we are to continue with a system of grants for specific operations on the land we must ask ourselves whether , in many crofting areas , we would not get better land use , and a greater benefit to the nation , if we grant-aided amenity planting on the in-bye land to improve the appearance of the villages . |
| 29 | A rectangular placenta and a baby about half an inch long with a heart but no face are implanted with the aid of forceps and speculum . |
| 30 | To a very recently bereaved family who are struggling with a multiplicity of emotions this early attention to fees can seem mercenary . |