Example sentences of "[verb] with [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discovering the fantasies of others , too , may be threatening ; the discovery , for example , as Rosalind Coward ( 1984 ) suggests , that the ‘ mild ’ man one lives with is a secret addict of sadomasochistic pornography . |
| 2 | Dick describes his management style as open and supportive , with a readiness to communicate with is managers as much as possible . |
| 3 | Apart from the agitation over conditions and pay in the mid-1960s which led to a new contract and the " renaissance of general practice " the profession was virtually untouched by governments of either party , although the escalating demands on the hospital service which successive governments tried to grapple with were largely GP-induced . |
| 4 | Apart from the 1 per cent who have their own private supplies , the great majority of the UK population rely upon the decisions of the water suppliers to ensure that the great bulk of the water we drink and cook with is ‘ wholesome ’ . |
| 5 | The dogs come to salivate on hearing the sound of bell , which they associate with being fed . |
| 6 | One young soldier I trained with was Tony Rees , from Whitchurch , Bristol . |
| 7 | The initial choice of strings may be random , but the algorithm works better if some of the ones it starts with are varied but fairly sensible . |
| 8 | CONFIDENCE STARTS WITH BEING POSITIVE |
| 9 | Another area of this Act which I disagree with is over the definition of need . |
| 10 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 11 | " Many ofthe people I need to work with are now in America because their tax rate is around half of the 60 per cent they have to fork out in Britain , " he explained . |
| 12 | Sooner or later I want to acquire the full range of British birds of prey , and the next bird I hope to work with is a goshawk . |
| 13 | Hence this school of thought held that the tool for the linguist to work with is a collected corpus of naturally occurring language . |
| 14 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 15 | Clearly impressed with is new-found walking advertisement , he finds Madonna ‘ very easy to get along with . |
| 16 | The implications of what we are presented with are left more dramatically open , challenging more directly the containment implied by the morality tradition . |
| 17 | What we are presented with is a range , from almost completely ‘ dependent ’ work at one end ( exaggerated by Adorno , neglected by Benjamin ) , to relics of aura tic art and new types of critical practice at the other ( the effectiveness and interrelationships of the two a matter of dispute ) . |
| 18 | Signers find it easier to work if those they are communicating with are all seated in one area . |
| 19 | Despite their importance , the emergence of the Franks as a power to be reckoned with is remarkably obscure . |
| 20 | He entered a nursing home , and subsequently his resources ran down and his daughter was threatened with being sued by the nursing home for outstanding fees . |
| 21 | If your village is clogged up with fumes , your house is threatened with being sunk under a reservoir or your road vibrates to the tune of ten-ton lorries each night , you might have something to say about it . |
| 22 | However , after a lacklustre match against France , he was threatened with being dropped from the England side . |
| 23 | SO GRIPPING is this summer 's Test series that last year 's battle royal is undeservedly threatened with being forgotten too soon . |
| 24 | The Japanese , threatened with being cut off from their South-East Asian empire , mounted intense resistance . |
| 25 | The criterion by which a farm worker could once obtain high status — skill at work — is therefore threatened with being overthrown . |
| 26 | He was dragged around by wire flex wrapped round his neck , beaten and threatened with being strangled and having his ears cut off . |
| 27 | In 1992 , the wooden huts those codebreakers worked in , on the edge of what 's since become Milton Keynes , are threatened with being demolished . |
| 28 | Dr Enid Marshall , editor of the Scottish Law Gazette , has been threatened with being locked out of the office if she does not accept the rulings of the university authorities . |
| 29 | All monies collected with be shared equally by the St John Ambulance appeal and Medau . |
| 30 | What we are constantly being fed with is that unemployment figures have been falling , that a successful economic miracle has taken place , that unemployment is a thing of the past . |