Example sentences of "with [pron] [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd not really given themselves the opportunity to consider a song from beginning to end — with them it was just get high and play . |
| 2 | For some men , the tears of women with whom they are closely involved may arouse anxiety , provoking memories of their mother crying . |
| 3 | Such purposive sampling could sample individuals along with other individuals with whom they are significantly related , such as members of their family , stated friends , work-mates , or whatever is appropriate . |
| 4 | Both men particularly loved medieval art , admiring the rich decoration and painstaking labour it involved , and their enthusiasm was shared by the Pre-Raphaelite group of painters with whom they were closely associated . |
| 5 | The Costa Rican Interior and Security Minster Luis Fishman Zonzinski , the Honduran Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán , Mgr Luis Alfonso Santos , Mexico 's ambassador to Costa Rica , Jesús Cabrera Muñoz Ledo , and a Honduran police colonel , were seized on Sept. 23 in the Costa Rican capital , San José , by a member of the Honduran left-wing Cinchonero Popular Liberation Movement ( MPLC or Cinchoneros ) with whom they were apparently holding a meeting . |
| 6 | Should a traveller , returning from a far country , bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted ; men who were entirely divested of vice , ambition , or revenge ; who knew no pleasure but friendship , generosity , and public spirit ; we should immediately , from these circumstances , detect the falsehood , and prove him a liar , with the same certainty as if he ha[d] stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons , miracles and prodigies ( quoted in Freeman 1984 : 95 ) . |
| 7 | She found those who had fled from Re 's anger in the desert and killed very many of them , thus gaining the name of Sekhmet , the lioness goddess of war , with whom she is here identified . |
| 8 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 9 | She was a contrary old woman and a match even for our Mum , with whom she was continually arguing . |
| 10 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 11 | His third cricket book , on the Australians of 1948 , with whom he is imperishably associated , was ‘ To my father , who knows nothing about cricket and cares less , but who was very good to me . ’ |
| 12 | In the chapter ‘ On the Duties of Persons Engaged in Trade and Business ’ in his Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain , he said the foundations of a trader 's credit were ‘ property , integrity , punctuality , industry , prudence , openness in dealing , freedom from extravagance , from a spirit of wild speculation and from vice , and the character of the partners and of others with whom he is closely connected . ’ |
| 13 | Then Dr Himes and Nick Jelley , with whom he is now working in Oxford , repeated Dr Simpson 's sulphur experiment with a more carefully conceived piece of apparatus and new calculations about sources of error . |
| 14 | With a string of southern primaries due in March , Clinton remained the overall favourite for the nomination ; the conventional wisdom was that Tsongas could not generate sufficient appeal outside New England , and — given the 1988 fate of Michael Dukakis , a Massachusetts liberal ( also of Greek ethnic origin ) with whom he was frequently compared — would be unelectable as President even if he did secure the nomination . |
| 15 | In my spare time I saw a lot of John Keay , an Agriculture graduate of the U. of Saskatchewan and a good friend , as well as Jerry Harwood and Quincey Moffat with whom I was closely associated in organizing the annual Boys ' Parliament elections . |
| 16 | This appeared in Scrutiny , and attracted some notice , not least from Ayer himself , with whom I was later to form a warm friendship . |
| 17 | In conjunction with the Master Innholders with whom it is closely associated , the Worshipful Company has commissioned Gayton Consultancy to undertake a survey to assess the current levels of training received by management . |
| 18 | It was evident that the Vietnamese government remained extremely wary of accepting non-volunteers , fearing condemnation by the United States with whom it was currently attempting to normalize relations , but in June 1991 the USA agreed to drop its opposition to negotiations between UK and Vietnam on the question of " involuntary repatriation " . |
| 19 | This kind of work can be achieved with someone who is mentally impaired by using skills that build trust , and trying to understand the meaning of the experience in the light of the person 's past history . |
| 20 | And that , to me , is such a logical , straightforward position to take when you 're dealing with someone who is basically pissing all over you — on a whole range of issues from world trade , to agricultural policy , to monetary union , to the social charter . ’ |
| 21 | When we are dealing with hard , brittle crystals , however , the practical strength is generally even lower than that of bulk glass and in their crude state most of the non-metallic crystals deserve the contempt with which they are generally regarded by engineers . |
| 22 | The ‘ finished ’ sentences with which they are implicitly contrasted are an artefact of writing . |
| 23 | The confusion of private and personal property as the subject of criticism has led most people , who for good reason wish to defend property with which they are intimately associated also to defend institutions which may result in their alienation from such property . |
| 24 | DAVID HUME in 1757 wrote ‘ There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves and transfer to every object those qualities with which they are intimately acquainted and of which they are intimately conscious . ’ |
| 25 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 26 | It is possible to load the filters with other media than the sponges with which they are usually supplied . |
| 27 | ‘ So again Kingfishers , when they catch a fish , always beat it until it is killed ; and in the Zoological Gardens they always beat the raw meat , with which they are sometimes fed , before devouring it ’ — Charles Darwin : The Expression of the Emotions in Man & Animals |
| 28 | The ecological model starts from the position that the growth and development of children can be understood only in relation to the nature of their interactions with the various environments which impinge on them and with which they are constantly interacting . |
| 29 | Discussions with the authority 's principal library organizer and his colleagues , together with discussions at local area and school level , showed that the professional librarians already on the strength of most of the ILEA secondary schools would be quite competent and also sufficiently willing to organize and administer school collections of audio.visual and other resources , as well as the print.form items with which they were already associated . |
| 30 | But the new two-axle units were actually responsible for part of the upsurge in traffic on their routes and were certainly no worse than the buses with which they were successfully competing . |