Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] with " in BNC.

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1 How can I be done with it when I 'm like this ?
2 The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ?
3 Can you be treated with homoeopathy if you are already being treated with orthodox medicine ?
4 How could you be bothered with cricket when there was golf — a universal , classless and very cheap obsession in Troon , Ayrshire , scene of my upbringing .
5 Will you be provided with free uniforms , or do you have to purchase these for yourself ?
6 can I be as could we be associated with that ?
7 In my babyhood , he had asked the great Australian centre Dave Brown to let me be photographed with an enormous stuffed lion Brown had brought back from a Kangaroo tour of Great Britain .
8 As long ago as Plato it was believed , ‘ if a person be guilty of impiety let him be punished with death . ’
9 We pray for our brothers in other parts of the family who struggle against injustice , and who serve you in societies where there is violence and oppression ; may they be filled with your wisdom in the battle against inhumanity .
10 I need to be advised on what to do with the existing indexing services — should they be integrated with BG-BASE fields or with the Library system ?
11 The guests must be persuaded to return to the restaurant , where it is imperative they be served with a more than satisfactory meal and be completely pacified .
12 Could they be fitted with timing devices ? ’
13 Please can you tell me if this is the correct procedure for purchasing anemones and corals , or should they be bought with the rock they are attached to ?
14 Why ca n't they be contented with what they 've got ?
15 Nor can it be compared with the ballerina 's dance in Rhapsodie where she wafts to and fro as if in a dream before breaking into her solo .
16 In recent years Conservative administrations have faced greater opposition from the House of Lords than have Labour Governments , partly because there is probably a greater fear of a Labour Government curtailing still further the powers of the Lords should it be faced with opposition from that quarter .
17 She thinks the Board has done a good job and what would it be replaced with ?
18 And , even if it had to be done by a department , could it be done with fewer people in a different and more managerially efficient way ?
19 It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ?
20 ( 3 ) Can it be said with certainty that the court will , under section 2(2) , exempt the third party from liability to make a contribution ?
21 Is it a coldwater fish , and can it be kept with Goldfish ?
22 Can it be mixed with half peat so that it goes to er
23 Can it be combined with another activity ?
24 Could it be linked with any other incident ?
25 There are also purist considerations : should the integrity of the original object be maintained , or may it be tampered with to display it to its best advantage ?
26 Nor can he be credited with the chi rho monogram .
27 He would not be made to read , in fact , or to perform any formal educational exercises ; nor would he be crammed with useless theorizing .
28 Alternatively , buying organisations may themselves be faced with concentration amongst suppliers , and find that there are fewer alternative sources of domestic supply .
29 Nocks are vulnerable when landing ; but can themselves be capped with a length of vinyl tube .
30 ‘ Let us be done with the arguments of participant observation versus interviewing — as we have largely dispensed with the arguments for psychology versus sociology — and get on with the business of attacking our problems with the widest array of conceptual and methodological tools that we possess and they demand ’ .
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