Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The county council had wanted to demolish the towering and elegant stone-built landmark and replace it with a more functional concrete and steel structure . |
| 2 | Originally it was thought to give better protection to the crew ejecting at high speed and provide them with a ‘ shirt-sleeve ’ environment . |
| 3 | The retiring president , Mrs Beryl Abbott , welcomed Mrs Archer as the new president and presented her with the badge of office . |
| 4 | The company had to bid for its new broadcasting licence at auction and won it with a bid of £2,000 . |
| 5 | As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net . |
| 6 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 7 | She said : ‘ We are trying to re-establish the Lord Mayoralty as it was before the city had its pantomime period , ’ a reference to the time the Militant-dominated council abolished the position of Lord Mayor and replaced it with a Labour chairman . |
| 8 | Reatus also allegedly jabbed Mr Mounsa in the neck and hit him with a dog chain . |
| 9 | At an auspicious moment the groom threw a gold chain over the bride 's neck and presented her with a wedding dress and jewels . |
| 10 | She followed the film stills with a series which took the convention of the centrefold pin-up and twisted it with a gauche naturalness — creating an awkward , sharp , counter-attack on voyeurism . |
| 11 | Finally , he put the folder down on his desk , bit a mouthful from the sandwich and followed it with a gulp of lukewarm coffee . |
| 12 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 13 | within a period of three months from the date of the total loss settlement the Policyholder shall have taken delivery of such replacement car and insured it with the Corporation |
| 14 | He intercepted the policewoman 's glance and crushed it with a frown . |
| 15 | You can do the same thing on a computer file , deleting each phonetic entry and replacing it with the phonemic transcription or an orthographic one . |
| 16 | Nothing daunted , the reactor personnel managed to get an extra pump working by the space-age technique of forcing open a valve and jamming it with a steel plate , though this had the distinct disadvantage of immobilising all of the other safety systems . |
| 17 | Opening her case , she took out a syringe and filled it with a heart and respiratory stimulant . |
| 18 | A neat dollop of anxiety cored the figure and stoppered it with a ridiculously short time-limit . |
| 19 | Len Seager had been conscious throughout the entire rescue operation and as Rachel joined him briefly in the back of the ambulance and covered him with an extra blanket he managed another smile . |
| 20 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 21 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the year since he took office Scottish dole queues have lengthened by a further 28,000 , leaving almost 250,000 Scots without work and leaving him with an even worse record than his predecessor , the former first lady of mass unemployment ? |
| 22 | It opened the floodgates to a deluge of referrals , altered the whole balance of its work and confronted it with the enormity of ‘ need ’ in terms of family poverty and homelessness . |
| 23 | P35 — At the end of the financial year the employer has to complete this return and send it with the completed P11 's to the Collector of Taxes . |
| 24 | We then looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 25 | We looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 26 | The announcement came in a Commons written reply by the roads minister , Kenneth Carlisle , but by that time most of the UK 's 9000 test stations had already halted the test and replaced it with the old visual check for excess smoke . |
| 27 | We will fight terrorism by every lawful means , repealing the counter-productive Prevention of Terrorism Act and replacing it with a measure which is more effective and genuinely acceptable in a democratic society . |
| 28 | Pound the garlic and mash it with the cod 's roe until the paste is quite smooth before gradually adding 3 tablespoons of the oil . |
| 29 | ANDY pulled back the spring-loaded handle of the machine and released it with a thump . |
| 30 | The Board accepted his letter of resignation with regret and presented him with a testimonial , a bowl and an album . |