Example sentences of "be [vb pp] with some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creamy bedroom carpet is echoed in the bathroom which has been furnished with some of the antique fixtures and fittings gleaned on Jake 's auction tours . |
| 2 | Whenever all the reps are completed with some strength still in reserve , then the weight should be increased , never the reps . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The ideal of privatized , familial , informal care , unsullied by the peremptory intervention of the municipality , has been pursued with some vigour . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | North Uist is almost more water than land ; Benbecula , a sparkling silver-blue maze ; whilst the South Uist machair plains are adorned with some of Europe 's finest sea-trout and brown trout lochs . |
| 9 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 10 | The strategy has already been applied with some success ( see box ) to Zurich 's American business . |
| 11 | Somehow he had been infused with some of its magic — that word again , he thought wryly . |
| 12 | In Northern Ireland , as in the rest of the UK , these tables have been met with some controversy and suspicion . |
| 13 | The provision has been interpreted with some strictness against individuals . |
| 14 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 15 | A veteran of the Vietnam war , Abadia was a self-professed " field soldier " , and the architect of the army 's current " seize-hold-consolidate-develop " strategy which , since 1988 , had been used with some effect against the guerrilla insurgents of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 16 | For the first time the Great Glen is shown as a straight line , and Skye , Mull , and Islay are shown with some degree of accuracy . |
| 17 | The rigid cases which are supplied with some camcorders are bulky to have with you all the time , and a lighter padded bag with pockets to take small items will probably be more convenient . |
| 18 | And the factory hours and rugby support which militated against soccer in Leeds had been challenged with some success from 1912 to 1914 . |
| 19 | Of these , around 3,000 , or 0.5% are born with some form of severe mental handicap . |
| 20 | Thousands of babies are born with some form of birth defect and most have immediately to go into incubators with doctors and nurses having to work round the clock to give them intensive care . |
| 21 | There are several related techniques , all having the common feature that some combination of the inputs ( resources consumed ) by health care programmes are compared with some combination of the outputs ( improvements in health obtained ) . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Trainees are provided with some choice over the sequence of training material depending on competence demonstrated . |
| 25 | This has been attempted with some success using the gene for human factor IX , though synthesis continues for only a short time , and immune response in the mouse receipients proved a problem . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Very low-calorie diets need to be undertaken with some kind of supervision , and are usually best suited to anyone with more than two stones to lose . |
| 28 | The body itself was late medieval , not wrapped in cerecloth but in a long linen shift with a narrow hem of lace ; the features were discernible , though bald , whilst the ‘ inside of the body seemed to be filled with some substance which rendered it very hard . ’ |
| 29 | In the light of the foregoing , an invitation to spell out the legal rules governing the treatment of the terminally ill must be regarded with some trepidation . |
| 30 | must , however , be regarded with some caution . |