Example sentences of "[verb] with a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he lives with a lurking fear of exposure as a fraud . |
| 2 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |
| 3 | While both painters , and Picasso in particular , led active social lives and mixed with a wide circle of literary and artistic figures , their friendship seems to have rendered them self-sufficient . |
| 4 | This time he certainly saw blank incomprehension mixed with a liberal dollop of incredulity . |
| 5 | All of these had to be mixed with a suitable quota of pretty and elegant women to form some sort of homogeneous gathering , so that the guests would , after a fashion , entertain themselves as well as be entertained . |
| 6 | The most noticeable aspect of Therapy ? now — as opposed to a year ago — is that the anger and tension of their sound is mixed with a fresh waft of cool and poise onstage . |
| 7 | The Fire Ghost simply bursts into flames , its spectral body surrounded with a huge halo of dancing fire . |
| 8 | Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) . |
| 9 | State agencies do act with a considerable degree of autonomy , and take limited account of their interaction with other branches of the government . |
| 10 | However much the family cling to their culture and security , the younger generation at work and school are grappling with a different set of realities ; the wisdom of the older family member may be less acceptable . |
| 11 | The Debut was designed with a real sense of purpose . |
| 12 | Ronald Ziolo , a chemist at Xerox 's Webster Research Centre near Rochester , New York , thinks the answer lies with a new version of boring old iron oxide — better known , in slightly different forms , as the magnetic coating on audio and video tapes , and as rust on cars . |
| 13 | But even then the East End of London could not have represented the rest of the country ; and even he plays for our pity , opening with a classic portrait of poverty and deprivation . |
| 14 | An open fire needs an air entry opening with a free area of at least 50% of the fire 's throat area , while rooms container other solid fuel or oil-burning appliances must have openings totalling 550sq mm per kilowatt of rated output above the first 5kW . |
| 15 | Dr Scott , from long experience , did no more than wrinkle his nose at the odour of decay , and spent twenty minutes there , mostly occupied with a careful consideration of the head . |
| 16 | If the coprocessor socket is the same size as the main processor socket the smaller RapidCad chip should be installed with a complete row of socket holes showing around it . |
| 17 | 1982 was the definitive Reading ROCK festival : Budgie , Iron Maiden and Michael Schenker headlined with a supporting cast of such acned arseholes as Terraplane and Praying Mantis , and old stagers Blackfoot and Tygers Of Pan Tang . |
| 18 | Sometimes the shape of a bedhead or a mirror or storage unit can be echoed over the object proper in 1920 's or 1930 's style and then exaggerated with a contrasting edge of another colour . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | To suggest to them that the skin is capable of absorbing essential oils by diffusing them across the fine blood capillaries ( under the surface of the skin ) and into the main bloodstream is bound to meet with a certain amount of scepticism , if not ridicule . |
| 21 | Andy had n't a care in the world as he joked with a star-packed line-up of players . |
| 22 | In a rare note of optimism Pétain issued an Order of the Day , beginning , ‘ The 9th of April was a glorious day for our forces , ’ and ending with a famous paraphrase of Joan of Arc : ‘ Courage , on les aura ! ’ |
| 23 | White Label is brewed with a special strain of yeast . |
| 24 | Hugh would get up purposefully and drive into Mondano , returning with a large number of bread rolls and a few croissants over which the children quarrelled . |
| 25 | An FRN with a par value of 100 , a quoted margin of 0.25 per cent over six-month LIBOR , is currently trading with a clean price of 99 . |
| 26 | The birds responded with a loud cry of ‘ Ti-lo Ti-lo ! ’ |
| 27 | Calling this demand " brazen and provocative " , the North Koreans responded with a nine-point set of new preconditions for inspection , including the South 's renunciation of United States nuclear protection , an end to nuclear military exercises and a ban on US aircraft and ships carrying nuclear weapons from entering Korean ports or territory . |
| 28 | And the audience responded with a soft wave of laughter , approving his modest admission of fallibility . |
| 29 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 30 | The Committee 's solution was to persist with a separate offence of infanticide . |