Example sentences of "be [vb pp] with some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 2 | The area from which the working-class housewives come is an area of mixed housing in which rented flats and rooms are interspersed with some owner-occupied dwellings . |
| 3 | It suggests that the 26-year-old Ranger will be a bench man until such time as someone takes a knock , runs out of steam or the game has been won with some 20 minutes to go . |
| 4 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 5 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 6 | Second , he turned down a proposal from the Kennedy administration to create a Multilateral Nuclear Force ( MLF ) , in which British and French nuclear forces would have been integrated with some American forces under NATO command . |
| 7 | EIGHT paintings by a 16th-century German master , stolen from a museum three weeks ago in the country 's biggest art theft since the Second World War , have been recovered with some minor damage , police said last night . |
| 8 | I would follow her around the house , clinging on to her skirt , unwilling to let her out of my sight , and demanding to be fed with some small token such as an apple or a piece of bread . |
| 9 | Indeed , adaptation often seems to be compared with some assumed saintly lifestyle and , as social services clients are often closely scrutinized , their short-comings are manifest . |
| 10 | Animals may also be born with some such rules : for example , a herring gull chick is born with the hypothesis that a thin projection with a spot on it is a parent 's beak ( see p. 77 ) . |
| 11 | There are some remarkable examples of genuine healing , but increasingly these are seen to be linked with some inner process involving a drive to self-healing . |
| 12 | No it 's er the initial the initial report that 's gone back has said that you 're gon na have a bad knee very shortly but apart from that you 'll be inflicted with some physical injury . |
| 13 | However , they may be combined with some other method to obtain such solutions . |
| 14 | She sank back into her extremely comfortable seat and , as Ace picked up a magazine to read , undid her attaché case and took out , it had to be admitted with some deliberate ostentation , notes on high-tech fuel consumption . |
| 15 | The situation would be different from this only if the internal discriminations carried with them some experiential ‘ feel ’ that was not to be identified with some physical process of which BS could know . |
| 16 | Well-chosen stories are illustrated with some interesting photographs . |
| 17 | To mark the event commemorative mugs were produced and a new handbook-brief history of the line has been printed with some 19 photographs and a pull out information piece for younger enthusiasts . |
| 18 | As in group ( a ) the pavements of group ( b ) are associated with some simple geometric patterns . |
| 19 | The men , whose bodies were badly decomposed , were found with some mouldy bread and tins of food , and were dressed in jeans and jumpers . |
| 20 | It was as if the boy were charged with some powerful yet masked vitality . |
| 21 | They were covered with some faded brown material , bits of padding pushing their way through cracks in the armrests and backs . |
| 22 | Here , the psychological characteristics of individuals , the outcome of a person 's childhood experiences and physical constitution , are contrasted with some other range of causal factors responsible for ‘ the course of France 's development ’ . |
| 23 | Once of the aircraft had been fitted with some new kit and a whip aerial had been mounted on one of its bomb doors . |
| 24 | It is invaluable as a record source and has been enhanced with some excellent photographs from the likes of Billy McLeod and Harold Ford who also contribute to the Ulster Cricketer . |
| 25 | It is invaluable as a record source and has been enhanced with some excellent photographs from the likes of Billy McLeod and Harold Ford who also contribute to the Ulster Cricketer . |
| 26 | And I think that the alternative of the new settlement is by far the best solution , provided it is mixed with some peripheral development , one ca n't go into a position where there is all peripheral development or all new settlement , it has to be in perfect balance , because some needs can not of course be met by the new settlement . |
| 27 | It would seem unlikely before the Hadrianic period at the earliest , if comparison is made with some other northern sites such as Aldborough ; it might be thought to be more likely under Severus or Caracalla , when the whole northern frontier region was extensively reorganized . |
| 28 | Farnborough 1990 is featured with some interesting in flight cockpit shots of Su-27 and MiG-29 , plus the Russian aircraft that dominated the 1990 show , the Antonov An-225 . |
| 29 | Water conditions will fall into the compatibility range of all the fish so far , and you should have no problems keeping any one of these attractive eels , the only requirement being that it is provided with some small tubing to hide in . |
| 30 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |