Example sentences of "is [verb] with " in BNC.

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1 This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand .
2 There is a pseudo-sophistication in our understanding of sexuality and its relation to human actions , for we have not grasped how very difficult it is to cope with all its manifestations .
3 Nevertheless , we need to consider what problems might arise and make provision accordingly , accepting that such provision should be very flexible if it is to cope with the range of need presented by the disabled .
4 We can not afford to have failures in a health system which needs to use every hospital and every health care worker if it is to cope with the demands of the twenty first century .
5 The Society 's motto is to serve law and justice ( ‘ Leges Juraque Servamus ’ ) and the mainstream work of many of its committees is to cope with literally hundreds of Government proposals for changes in the law .
6 The reason that that B one insertion has been made is to cope with the use classes order change .
7 His biggest problem , of course , is to cope with demand .
8 To our church came such spiritual giants as Rev Reginald Barlett of Samoa , and the South Seas , Miss Mabel Shaw of Mbershi , whose adopted daughter is helping with modern Zambia , a housewoman from Dr Ida Scudder 's hospital at Velore , central India and a missionary from China who knew about the conditions there and in Hong Kong , and who had also met Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan and knew that , in very truth , this son of a Geisha and who knows who , was a world figure , now pleading at the League of Nations for more attention to World Health than to armaments .
9 The World Food Programme is helping with its largest ‘ food for work ’ scheme in Africa .
10 New rules for athletes in Portugal are being drawn up and Mota is helping with the project .
11 Malvern-based chartered accountant Alan Kay is helping with a detailed investigation of the activities of certain copier companies that are widely criticised for malpractice , as well as the leasing companies that finance them .
12 IBM Corp and Sequent Computer Systems Inc are possibly on it too — Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is helping with the chip so may also be in the line up .
13 IBM Corp and Sequent Computer Systems Inc are possibly on it too — Siemens AG is is helping with the chip so Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG so may also be in the line-up .
14 ‘ Thames Valley police have confirmed that a man is helping with inquiries into the murder of Dr Hugh Puddephat , the English lecturer whose body was identified in Paris earlier this week , ’ the newsreader reported .
15 We now have two new people involved with bringing you the news — Anne Seaton , away up in Scotland , who is helping with page three 's editing and Victoria Osborne , from Surrey , in a more general way , her first contribution is the report of our very successful Reunion held last November .
16 Cocoa butter is blended with sugar and flavourings and , sometimes , milk powder to produce confectionery , or is further processed to remove the fat , leaving cocoa powder .
17 Many of Wordsworth 's poems are attempts to show how we associate ideas ( see ‘ Hartley ’ , p. 80 ) , and he often points out how the second idea — ‘ the echo of the voice ’ in this case — is blended with the first idea on which our conscious attention is fixed — ‘ my eye / Was fixed upon the glowing Sky ’ .
18 The charm of his style , the persuasiveness of his appeal to history , the breadth of his understanding , the way in which earnestness is blended with joyfulness in his religion — and all things pervaded by reason and good sense — have won disciples for Hooker in all subsequent generations .
19 Finally it is blended with 10 year old Balsamic vinegar to give its distinctive dark , sweet , rich flavour .
20 The coir is blended with a mix of nitrogen , phosphate and potassium fertilizers to form the new compost .
21 Note that at the back of the head an allowance of approx. ½in has been left , and this is bevelled with a smoothing plane so that when viewed from above the head will lie at an angle to the neck .
22 If a child is sniffing with a group of young people , and has been for some time , it may help to provide other more interesting and exciting leisure activities .
23 What Fat is to go with them . ’
24 All you have to do is to go with the flow of events , letting each scene add to what has gone before .
25 In practice the younger the child , the more likely it is to go with mum , and seventeen out of every twenty children do so .
26 But what I 'd like you to do is to go with me during the next couple of hours , have an open mind and erm if I say something which is in an in any way provocative , question me if you want to , cos that 's what we 're here for , to communicate .
27 How happy it is to see with what zeal and what promptitude all over the country the working population have exhibited their readiness to take advantage of the opportunities when once afforded them .
28 Throughout , the old lady sits silent , hands on lap , eyes on agitated thumbs and as she looks up to witness the man 's retreat her tear-streaked face is racked with pain .
29 Kapuscinski is a seeker of general truths who is sparing with his generalisations , and who likes certain kinds of particularity but not others .
30 THE cab driver who was forced to carry an IRA bomb to Downing Street is recovering with a double birthday celebration .
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