Example sentences of "be filled with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the revival of interest in airships now they can be filled with cheap helium , they are still unattractive in most circles and it is no good quoting the figures for people killed in airship crashes against those killed every day on the roads and similar statistics , or the successful career of the R100 , although filled with hydrogen . |
| 2 | Removing the mender 's lead leaves gaps which have to be filled with new glass … aged and painted to closely match the original . |
| 3 | Note any gaps in the flower borders that can be filled with other plants next year . |
| 4 | If the English artist Mark Quinn can get his own head , cast in his own frozen blood , on display in the Saatchi Gallery in London ; if the Italian papers can be filled with agitated articles about whether ‘ a cardboard box covered in cloth , with bits of cardboard , bone glue , red pen , tempera and oil paint ’ , until recently exhibited at the Brera Academy in Milan , is or is not an authentic , therefore meaningful , work by the shamanesque German , Joseph Beuys ; if Duchamp 's own famous urinal of 1917 can grace the Palazzo Grassi in Venice as from this month , then surely there is room for those centuries-old objects of ancient devotion to be resurrected as the focus of the new cult . |
| 5 | Elated to be filled with hot cock , she tightened her vaginal muscles . |
| 6 | Thus these case roles could be filled with nonsensical objects such as ’ sincerity ’ or ’ steam ’ ; i.e. , one could say ’ steam collided with sincerity ’ . |
| 7 | Whereas London cabaret bills tend to be filled with straight stand-up acts , in provincial gigs you are more likely to be put on with local bands , cringe-worthy performance poets , or singer-songwriters wielding acoustic guitars . |
| 8 | A squat Nuremberg bowl for the centrepiece and eight or ten specimen glasses of the same ware to be filled with orange carnations and silver grasses , each guest 's place was to have a boutonnière to match and each finger bowl a floating full-blown orange carnation plus a few drops of orange flower water . |
| 9 | Museums and art galleries across the Midlands will soon be filled with obscure , bizarre and colourful collections of objects amassed by ordinary people . |
| 10 | Unused storage positions should be filled with dummy records , so that they can be recognized at once . |
| 11 | The dug-up space was later going to be filled with organic wastes and turned into a vegetable patch . |
| 12 | If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it . |
| 13 | Calm , orderly yards tend to be filled with relaxed , calm horses , in contrast to the nervy and difficult ones in chaotic and rough yards . |
| 14 | For woodworkers inspired by furniture and cabinetmaking , the September issue of Woodworker will be filled with potential projects , ideas and techniques . |
| 15 | In the autumn of 1955 , while the pages of the Spectator continued to be filled with angry reaction to Henry Fairlie 's remarks about the Establishment , its radical counterpart , the New Statesman tackled the family which lay at the Establishment 's heart . |