Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomonori Tsurumaki , Japanese industrialist who bought Picasso 's ‘ Les Noces de Pierette ’ for £33.1 million ( $51.6 million ) at auction in Paris in 1989 , is rumoured to be burdened with heavy debts . |
| 2 | But his parents want him to be taught with normal children . |
| 3 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |
| 4 | Large variations are to be observed with strong maxima close to the wall . |
| 5 | Two things need to be emphasized with equal force . |
| 6 | And almost every object in the room seemed to be spattered with multicoloured splashes of paint ; while the windows were covered with grime and festooned with cob-webs . |
| 7 | It they suffered in this way , they had to be sprayed with fresh water . |
| 8 | Temperatures were so high in some of the deep mines that the ‘ tinners ’ had to be sprayed with cold water while they worked in the dark with candles fixed to their helmets . |
| 9 | Even these two conclusions need to be treated with great caution . |
| 10 | Incidentally , the cattle of Landes used to be treated with great care as draught oxen ( they were never overworked and were given special headgear to ward off flies ) but were also used in amateur ‘ bull races ’ in which bad-tempered oxen and cows were teased into charging at people . |
| 11 | Words demand to be treated with great truth . |
| 12 | In each case the greatest threat needs to be addressed first and where two or more addictions are equally strong , then each needs to be treated with equivalent concern . |
| 13 | It tends to medicalise and individualise social and economic problems so that the stress of the effects of poor housing , for example , is treated as an individual depressive illness — to be treated with psychotropic drugs . |
| 14 | He had not seen any of his children for ten years ; but he guessed that Alexei knew that he hated to be treated with formal courtesy . |
| 15 | Eye-witness evidence has to be treated with considerable reserve . |
| 16 | The fact that heads and teachers of very differing professional styles and values were working in Leeds throughout this period demonstrates , of course , that other factors were at work and that the wilder accusations of patronage which came our way needed to be treated with considerable caution . |
| 17 | This is plausible but by no means necessarily the case , and therefore the evidence from meteorites has to be treated with considerable reserve . |
| 18 | Homosexuals have as much right to be understood , to be treated with compassionate love as the rest of us . |
| 19 | If a patient suffering from cholera were to be treated with intravenous sterile solutions , he/she would require an average of 10 litres of the solution ( plus antibiotics ) during the course of the treatment . |
| 20 | Two men have allowed themselves to be injected with radioactive plutonium in the interests of science . |
| 21 | Two men have allowed themselves to be injected with radioactive plutonium in the interests of science . |
| 22 | We are evaluating a more sophisticated electronic device which allows the entire theatre team at risk to be monitored with minimal inconvenience . |
| 23 | They are likely to be beset with other major changes associated with the second half of life . |
| 24 | ( a ) Transfer to another magistrates ' court A magistrates ' court must transfer a case to another magistrates ' court if this would be in the child 's interests : ( i ) because it will significantly accelerate determination of the proceedings ; ( ii ) because it would be appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the receiving court ; or ( iii ) for some other reason ( APO , art 6 ) . |
| 25 | ( b ) Transfer to the county court A magistrates ' court may transfer any public law case ( other than proceedings relating to emergency protection orders , contribution orders ( see Chapter 16 , 5 ) and certain appeals relating to privately fostered children ( see Chapter 18 , 6 ) , child minders and day care facilities ( see Chapter 19 ) ) to a county court care centre where it is in the child 's interests to do so because : ( i ) the case is exceptionally grave , important or complex ; ( ii ) it is appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the county court ; or ( iii ) transfer is likely significantly to accelerate the determination of the proceedings ( APO , art 7 ) . |
| 26 | Older children , even those with developed visualization abilities , need visual stimulus , need to be presented with new visual ideas , new ways of looking , ways of looking , perhaps , at unfamiliar things — oriental architecture or the workings of a laser application — ways of extending the enjoyment of the seen . |
| 27 | Another benefit is that the use of moving video images and sound enables trainees to be presented with realistic situations . |
| 28 | Private provision , including playgroups and child minders , has to be registered with local authority Social Services Departments . |
| 29 | A meeting between members of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace talks and Arafat on June 18 caused them to be threatened with possible arrest by the Israeli authorities on their return to the occupied territories . |
| 30 | Local authorities continued to be threatened with central government imposed limitations on their ability to raise revenue locally , and the personal consequences for individual community charge payers voting for either increases or decreases in expenditure would vary considerably . |