Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that backdrop of hair the small round shoulders gained in defencelessness and pallor — but come on , the Isles was no place for local contrasts . |
| 2 | But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out . |
| 3 | With odd numbers of phases the motor can be operated in the " half.stepping " mode , producing the increment of motion equal to half the normal step for each excitation change , e.g. the seven-phase phase motor is excited alternately three- and four-phases-on , giving the excitation sequence : ABC , ABCD , BCD , BCDE , CDE In the hybrid motor there are two phases , which can be excited with positive or negative currents , or , if the motor is bifilar-wound , there are four phases each excited with unipolar current . |
| 4 | With this type of wave the swash , or rush of water up the beach from the breaking wave , is weak as the water plunges directly on to the beach . |
| 5 | With this type of scan the room reservations for every room for any given day can be brought into view . |
| 6 | With this easy-availability of text the size of corpora becoming available are orders of magnitude larger than those originally envisioned . |
| 7 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 8 | Obviously with this sort of music the ideas are n't going to be : ‘ Yes , my girlfriend is a nurse and I would like a job in the pit ’ . |
| 9 | Thirdly , with this method of composition the lack of a fixed light source , the arbitrary juxtaposition of light and dark , becomes a consistent and , indeed , a salient feature of the style . |
| 10 | On the other hand , a critic who represents object texts in a mode akin to free indirect speech operates under an obligation to represent with some degree of fidelity the texts that he or she purports to ventriloquise . |
| 11 | It merely states that the normal and primary justification of any authority has to establish that it is qualified to follow with some degree of success the principles which should govern the decisions of all authorities . |
| 12 | It will be easy enough to bleach them with some Milk of Magnesia the night before he comes home . |
| 13 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 14 | However , a tail-wheel is more convenient for ground handling , particularly as with these types of glider the tail is extremely heavy and awkward to lift when the glider needs turning around on the ground . |
| 15 | would talk for instance [ Richard later wrote ] of the ‘ Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ’ and hold us all , a group of young boys , spellbound as he unfolded with conscious looks of wonder the marvellous courage of the man Eliot to write the poem ‘ Prufrock ’ at the time he did . |
| 16 | Downstairs , in the crypt , Toni Halliday is carefully painting a red dot on her forehead while Curve guitarist Alex regales us with unlikely tales of cockroaches the size of dachshunds in his flat at home after spotting a standard one moving about their dressing room ‘ john ’ and a dead one upturned next to the lockers . |
| 17 | With any type of aircraft the characteristics of a spin vary according to the loading , so that the spin becomes flatter as the c.g. is moved back . |
| 18 | Compared with other types of organisation the potential advantages of bureaucracy may seem apparent . |
| 19 | With both classes of compounds the challenge is to show that the risk of administration is very low , and certainly less than that of blood products . |
| 20 | With most kinds of cardboard the greatest practicable size of frame is about 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm . |