Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] with [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Restaurants & Leisure division of Whitbread plc employs approximately 40000 people and has five UK businesses , including the Thresher drinks retailing chain with 1660 shops nationwide , 250 Beefeater family restaurants , TGI Friday 's the American Bistro and 282 Pizza Hut restaurants . |
| 2 | Teams comprising individuals with inter-changeable skills now run the production lines at the Swindon , UK , site . |
| 3 | Elsewhere in continental Europe , our development plans are reaping dividends with total volumes up by 16 per cent . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , for a new user a package can provide a useful way of getting experience with computerised systems quickly . |
| 5 | It has a complex tunnel system built along the banks of slow moving waterways with many exits above and below water level . |
| 6 | Willa Cather 's My Antonia , which along with her other novels I was absorbing with great delight at this period , provided another couple with whom to identify , Antonia and Jim Burden , and I kept switching sides with these characters also . |
| 7 | It is our hope that parents will also be encouraged to read about new ideas in teaching children with special needs so that they can be in a better position to work in partnership with teachers on the basis of an informed and critical understanding of current difficulties and developments . |
| 8 | We were easy targets for ridicule , and because we were angered and hurt by all of this , we withdrew further into ourselves , and stopped having contact with heterosexual women almost entirely . |
| 9 | As well , the MRC carried out studies of the bacteriology , drug mechanisms , and immunology of tuberculosis and the pharmacology of antituberculosis drugs , directed at preventing drug resistance and treating patients with resistant strains effectively , and also studied sociological , epidemiological , and community problems — including intensive work , lasting 40 years , on patient compliance in taking drugs , and the results achieved in service programmes . |
| 10 | They can rarely exercise real choice about what is provided for them , or decide to ‘ shop elsewhere ’ , except by refusing to attend a clinic or hospital or by avoiding contact with local services completely . |
| 11 | The champions were at their brilliant best in the opening quarter , tormenting Bradford with six touchdowns before , uncharacteristically , easing up . |
| 12 | The industry is already seeking to get round its international weaknesses — particularly one all foreign drug companies face everywhere , dealing with the regulatory complexities of drug approvals — through licensing agreements with local firms abroad as well as joint ventures , and overseas R&D and production . |