Example sentences of "[verb] with an [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler was presented with an ultimatum by both Britain and France to cease their invasion by 11 a.m. on Sunday , 3rd , September , or a state of war would exist between the allied British and French forces against Germany . |
| 2 | In the fifteen years 1971–86 its increase by over 1.2 million people compared with an increase of only 672,000 in the total population of Great Britain , indicating that Britain 's white population fell by some 560,000 over this period . |
| 3 | In 1984 , manual grades in BR worked an average of ten hours overtime per week , compared with an average of about five hours per week for all industries ( Department of Employment Gazette ) . |
| 4 | The book opens with an explanation of why some drugs are banned , details of testing procedures for competitors , what happens if a test fails and how drugs are misused . |
| 5 | Happily , this band of devotees were generously rewarded with an evening of unusually imaginative and refined music-making . |
| 6 | The explanation offered by Rose and colleagues was that the neutrons were produced by collisions between slow deuterons and deuterons moving with an energy of nearly 20 keV in the direction of the current . |
| 7 | All the quality papers led with an assessment of Too Long a Winter , and marvelled at the astonishing life led by this old lady with the gleaming white hair in that frozen lonely Yorkshire dale . |
| 8 | But by the early 1960s planners were being charged with an over-obsession with neatly packaged land parcels , and this came to a head with Jane Jacobs ( 1961 ) , an American journalist married to an architect , living in New York . |
| 9 | The selection of letters that are similar to what was written are retrieved with an indication of how close a match was obtained . |
| 10 | The story continues with an account of how the next day when he started to get upset Little Turtle remembered what the tortoise had told him so he closed his eyes , pulled in his arms close to his body , put his head down so his chin rested against his chest , and rested for a while , until he knew what to do . |
| 11 | Mr Spencer was persuaded north as the press 's secretary , and dramatically expanded its output from some 20 academic titles a year to around 90 , an expansion achieved with an increase of only the Polygon staff to EUP 's 14 indefatigable full-time staff members . |
| 12 | This follows precisely because the securities trade at a discount : the return of 2.49 is achieved with an investment of only 97.51 , not 100 ; the yield is based on 97.51 whereas the discount is based on 100 . |
| 13 | It was that a newly-elected government should consider the facts that every day , the NSPCC 's professionals are working with an average of nearly 2,000 cases , involving some 4,300 children ; that around 120,000 calls were handled by the society in the first year of their new , free 24-hour national child protection line ; and that more children than ever before are getting in touch with the NSPCC . |
| 14 | The present publishers , John Horbury & Associates , had quoted with an increase of only five per cent and they would be retained due to their reliability and flexibility . |
| 15 | Reading this collection of interviews with twenty five Scottish and Irish women poets is like opening up a box of plain chocolates , only to be confronted with an array of brightly coloured and diverse tasting liqueurs . |