Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] of [noun pl] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of weeks with her sisters , I heard the false note not just in her accent , but in her voice as well . |
| 2 | The UN 's special envoy , Mr Benon Sevan , flew to Kabul last night after a day of talks with Mujahideen leaders , the Pakistani Prime Minister , Mr Nawaz Sharif , and Iran 's ambassador in Islamabad . |
| 3 | After a tour of operations with the famous John Cats Eyes Cunningham , the Author went on to fly with the Fighter Interception Unit and was the Author of our Operational Flying Club series in the April , May and June 1992 issues . |
| 4 | On July 1 President Lech Walesa signed the law governing procedures for Poland 's first democratic elections , after a month of disputes with the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) . |
| 5 | Woking keeper Laurence Batty played on after a clash of heads with striker Kurt Nogan , but was sent for hospital tests after the game . |
| 6 | Fillis fed sugar and carrots to horses belonging to other people , and was convinced that the horses lacked affection for their owners because they started whinnying to him after a number of visits with the food . |
| 7 | Some changed their paper-types , and others were persistent readers of a myriad of papers with individual readerships too small for us to analyse ( the Scotsman , the Glasgow Herald , and regional English papers , for example ) . |
| 8 | The key reform would be the introduction of a Bill of Rights with a free speech guarantee of the sort enjoyed by America and most European countries . |
| 9 | To maintain that the content of literature is part of a system of signs with a structure of its own , independent of the ‘ real ’ world , is clearly to maintain that it is in theory analyzable in the same way as its language ; but in practice a ready-made set of conceptual tools is simply not available . |
| 10 | In practice , unlike the example of a collection of objects with randomly assigned characteristics , we reach the same classification by using different sets of characters . |
| 11 | Assault on a constable is one of a group of offences with a somewhat complicated family connection . |
| 12 | In many ways the most interesting aspect of the present sale was the inclusion of a group of artists with established reputations but fresh to the auction market . |
| 13 | Three sources of attitude change have been identified by researchers : compliance ( new attitude is adopted for ulterior motives ) , identification ( peer group membership requires a change ) and internalization ( the new attitude is accepted as one of a group of attitudes with which the individual can live ) . |
| 14 | Meadows and Wood ( 1991 ) conducted some small scale research into the attitudes of a group of parents with primary aged children in LEA schools and a group with children in independent schools . |
| 15 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |
| 16 | For a composite material consisting of a concentration of particles with orientation described by and elastic constants of a second phase , which may also be of general elastic properties , the Voigt scheme would lead to sums such as |
| 17 | Baker 's unproductive visit to Geneva came in the middle of a week of meetings with leaders in allied countries . |
| 18 | Some processes involving simple treatment of yarn or fabric with an aqueous solution , such as yarn-sizing or back-filling , require very little water , whereas others , composed of a sequence of operations with many rinses , demand large quantities . |
| 19 | Others , like sponges , consisted of a colony of cells with a porous skeleton . |
| 20 | Alternatively they may effect a leveraged buy-out of a number of businesses with a view to later reconstruction to realise " hidden " reserves which will effectively finance the acquisition of the core business they wish to retain , and enable the borrowings to be redeemed . |
| 21 | You may be one of a number of employees with a roughly comparable job . |
| 22 | Standing Orders govern a wide range of activities from the daily programme of each House to the structure , membership and procedure of a host of committees with various functions . |
| 23 | He suggested that Eisenhower " flattered the Shah with the prospect of an exchange of views with you on modern military problems " . |
| 24 | Her father was a big man , broad-shouldered and stout with an important stomach , and Parr was strong and wiry , like a bundle of whips with an urbane face . |
| 25 | How long do they think the countryside will remain clean after they descend on it like a swarm of locusts with their cars , motorbikes and stereos ? |
| 26 | " Those are rabbits down there , trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts . |
| 27 | That possibility might arise if a plaintiff were at liberty to make a claim against a number of defendants with the sole object of ousting the jurisdiction of the courts of the state where one of the defendants is domiciled . |
| 28 | He bowls a good yorker and unlike a lot of bowlers with real pace he does n't overdo the bouncers . |
| 29 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if we were to take our sample from those families with above-average measured incomes , we would expect to find that many of them had only temporarily high incomes so that average transitory income would be positive and Y p < Y. Similarly , for a sample of families with below-average measured incomes , we should expect to find that Y T < 0 and Y p > Y. |