Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] with [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillor Murphy , Labour regional member for Coatbridge North and Glenboig , was suspended on full pay yesterday after a meeting with officials of the housing department , including the depute director , James McCarrell . |
| 2 | John Murphy , Labour regional member for Coatbridge North and Glenboig , was suspended on full pay yesterday after a meeting with officials of the housing department , including the depute director , James McCarrell . |
| 3 | Occasionally she was caught for a fraction of a second with images of a pig 's cot wall with a black cat on it or a square stone chapel silhouetted in Sunday dusk , but these were inconsequential visitations , debris from the past uncovered by the rhythms of a particular song or the set and angle of a passing face , a passing mood . |
| 4 | He did , however , acknowledge that it would be neither responsible nor sensible to ignore the existence of the Action Committee , and he offered them the opportunity of a meeting with representatives of the council . |
| 5 | If you want to use wallpaper , go for a design with layers of pattern . |
| 6 | In some respects , also , the parents may be more inclined to treat the child as a person with views of his or her own . |
| 7 | I could come disguised as a priest with sticks of dynamite strapped to my chest and — ’ |
| 8 | Shortly thereafter , it was discovered that these supposedly indivisible atoms are made up of electrons revolving about a nucleus with energies of the order of a few electron-volts . |
| 9 | The board also received an oral report from the chief legal officer about a meeting with representatives of Norwich Union which had taken place on the morning of 29 October 1990 . |
| 10 | If there were enough of you , I would form you into a company with men of mine to supervise you . |
| 11 | ‘ A headstrong and impressionable eighteen-year-old looking for adventure might possibly win some sympathy from a judge with daughters of his own . |
| 12 | Time trapped one in a masquerade with costumes of its own choice . |
| 13 | Should specialist services be brought in from outside for advice on specific problems and for continuing support ? iv Can we reconcile hopes for continuity of care in a service with ideas of segregation ? |
| 14 | Answer : by turning in a record with echoes of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison , which must be as close as popular music comes to high seriousness and sainthood , to being untrammelled by earthly concerns like chart success . |
| 15 | ‘ There is obviously a consensus that , generally speaking , it is useful not to work in an environment with pictures of naked women , ’ said a committee spokeswoman yesterday . |
| 16 | Powerful stadium-style lights were turned onto the buildings where 105 followers of cult leader David Koresh have been barricaded since a shootout with men of the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms on 28 February in which four federal agents were killed . |
| 17 | I remember I had a dream , when I was five or six , of all the books in my mother 's library being thrown on to a bonfire with piles of other books and burnt . |
| 18 | They were taken to a room with walls of glass , overlooked by a central console with nurses in attendance . |
| 19 | While no systematic research has been done on language use within families in the Bradford Dominican community , Tate considers that her informants , who were Rastafarian members of a band , had competence in JC on a par with natives of Jamaica ( Tate is herself Jamaican-born ) . |
| 20 | On the one hand it would be perfectly in order to write the biography of a poet as long as it is understood that it would be ‘ on a par with biographies of generals and inventors ’ ( Tomashevsky 1978 : 55 ) and was not mistaken for literary science . |
| 21 | For example , if you place £2 on a horse with odds of 5/1 , and it wins , you win £10 ( five times £2 ) . |
| 22 | Here he learnt that the pope would not release him from the archbishopric , but wished him to expound the Latin doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit at a meeting with representatives of the Greek Church at Bari in October . |
| 23 | Access is easy , for although the car parks are few , they are strategically placed , and I 've not yet come across a walker with tales of local farmers barring the way . |