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

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1 I knew I 'd see the facades of Nabataean temples chiselled into the rock and that the cliff-walls would be riddled with empty tombs .
2 Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music .
3 But those innocent-looking sarnies could be riddled with bacteria , such as listeria , Salmonella and Staphylococcus .
4 So a Pacific as defined by such minds might fall within the appropriate longitudes and latitudes , but it would be riddled with holes , a discontinuous mess , a collection of unconnected pieces of sea and land established principally to prove an argument about an entity of which they make up only a fraction .
5 And surviving missals and other documents of the Celtic Church prove to be riddled with excerpts from Judaic apocryphal books and additional texts which had long and rigorously been forbidden by Rome .
6 And , in all probability , their imaginations will , as they say , boggle because , as you have never seen that scene in your mind 's eye , it may well be riddled with improbabilities if it is not a downright impossibility .
7 His wife 's body was exhumed and found to be riddled with arsenic .
8 These dogs look happy enough , but they could be riddled with canine complexes .
9 Ideally , opioid dependent prisoners in custody should be stabilised with the right dose .
10 The value of praise in providing encouragement has to be blended with the instructional benefit that criticism can bring to the pupil .
11 It can be blended with other fibres too .
12 Provided that environmental concerns are met and are specifically addressed in the planning process , we believe that output from the opencast sector must be blended with output from the deep-mine sector .
13 The alcohol can be blended with petrol to a proportion of up to 20% alcohol and run in a conventional car engine without adjustment .
14 It is rather expensive — there are so many competing demands for the raw material — so you will naturally be sparing with it .
15 There is no totally ‘ green ’ energy source and if we want to help the environment we must be sparing with what we use and campaign for renewable energy sources — like wind , wave and solar power — to be invested in and taken more seriously .
16 If there were large regions of anti-matter in our galaxy , we would expect to observe large quantities of radiation from the borders between the regions of matter and antimatter , where many particles would be colliding with their antiparticles , annihilating each other and giving off high energy radiation .
17 The Committee ordered that the member 's Practising Certificate be withdrawn with effect from 1 February 1993 .
18 This kills the tiny parasite , which can then be withdrawn with tweezers and the wound treated by immersion in a solution of malachite green to prevent secondary fungal infection .
19 Once filed an application can only be withdrawn with the leave of the court ( FPCR , r5(1) ; FPR , r4.5(1) ) .
20 The edges of mirrors can be smoothed with a carborundum stone but using water rather than oil as the lubricant .
21 Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education .
22 I recognise that it may also be tinged with a note of bias , for I passionately believe with the project organisers that school and community are parallel and co-operative agencies in the education of young children , and that to establish understanding , as well as to promote real creativity , children should begin reading and learning in the language they speak at home .
23 Optimism must always be tinged with anxiety for it not to become braggartism , and there were enough instances in the past , mainly at Olympic Games where British flames of hope had turned to ashes of despair , for a note of caution to be sounded .
24 And now , even if the Muscovite hierarchy felt Ukrainian methods to be tinged with Latin heresy , they could no longer ignore the issues raised .
25 But your brand of realism seems to be tinged with ideology .
26 Coun Bolland said : ‘ It is always a great pleasure to welcome the HMS Jupiter to Middlesbrough , but this visit will of course be tinged with sadness , as it is the last .
27 Her last visit ends a 17-year relationship with the town and celebrations will be tinged with sadness when she weighs anchor and sails off .
28 Disease was measured by first hospital admission rates since endometriosis can be diagnosed with accuracy only at laparotomy or laparoscopy .
29 In addition , involvement of major neurovascular structures and bone can also be diagnosed with a high degree of accuracy .
30 Recommended Assessment Procedures may be altered with the prior approval of the Council .
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