Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even with that clutch of reasons to be glassy-eyed , I 've stayed almost sober for an entire month , sitting miserably at the bar wondering why low-alcohol lager has an after-taste like floor polish , and disturbing old friends with the rapt attention I give to such enquiries as : ‘ Ice and lemon in your tonic water , sir ? ’ |
| 2 | I must admit , with that amount of bubbles in bo look at your toes peeping out through the bubbles . |
| 3 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 4 | Antiracism seems very comfortable with this idea of blacks as victims . |
| 5 | Terrestrial ages determined on Antarctic chondrites ( the most abundant type of meteorite found throughout the world , see Box 2 ) range from about 1000 to 700 000 years , with some clustering of ages in the range of 300 000 to 600 000 years . |
| 6 | The next four chapters are all concerned with some aspect of systems of representation — in reading , writing , computation , and pictorial representation . |
| 7 | SOLOISTS and the massed voices of the Association of Irish Musical Societies will again be ‘ raising the roof ’ of the Ulster Hall , Belfast , with another selection of Songs from the Shows ( UTV , 10.40pm ) . |
| 8 | With appropriate allocation of profits from year to year the company partner could be used as a means of building up partnership capital at the more favourable tax rate . |
| 9 | Methodologically , it is not possible for any researcher to get the kids to talk with much sense of ideas since the question ‘ Why ? ’ to the smashing of milk bottles is one that is not possible for the boy to answer outside the context of the whole Saturday evening … |
| 10 | Although the tone was generally optimistic , with much talk of prospects for greater regional co-operation , there were allusions in speeches to the enduring sources of conflict between the six states . |
| 11 | However enlightened our investors might be , they were not always convinced we would return from improbable places with improbable footage of expeditions for which no insurance company would dream of covering us . |
| 12 | Such a policy would have to be in conjunction with better policing of regions by park patrols and resident ecologists . |
| 13 | I have also killed some beautiful albatrosses , petrels , ducks etc. and four nests with full compliment of eggs of the Black Oystercatcher , small and large gulls , a Teal etc. besides a nest with young of the Emu Wren and other minor things . |
| 14 | Expenditure cuts of 3.5 per cent across the board were proposed , along with reduced linking of pensions to inflation . |
| 15 | According to a doctor with considerable experience of cases of dyslexia , the boy was ‘ moderately dyslexic , but the effects … are offset by his exceptionally high IQ which means that those effects are modified but not eliminated … . |
| 16 | I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness . |
| 17 | I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness . |
| 18 | Near Teheran primroses come in many colours while here in Britain you very occasionally find one with double flowers , or with one set of petals inside another . |
| 19 | Disney said yesterday it had reached a settlement with one group of contractors for an undisclosed sum . |
| 20 | Now with living proof of patients like Michael , and researchers evidence it 's hoped that any doubts doctors may have had about penicillin will dissapear . |
| 21 | The efficiency of grid-referenced PCR , reflected in the screening multiple , therefore declines with increasing prevalence of positives within the samples . |
| 22 | Influencing the attitudes of staff working in the local careers advice service by ensuring that they are provided with up-to-date information of developments in nursing and someone from whom they can seek assistance . |
| 23 | Once you really start to think of the components that can be changed in a room without too much ado you can come up with any number of ideas for a change of style , or more important , for adding style where none existed before . |
| 24 | A function may be defined with any number of parameters of any type , and may return ( using = ) a string or numeric result . |
| 25 | A procedure may be defined with any number of parameters of any type . |
| 26 | Even before the end of the seventeenth century James II , in exile in France , had advised his son , should he ever rule in England , to have a single minister with undivided control of relations with other states . |
| 27 | I once had to step out of the water with 5½ stone of weights on me , and it was then I resolved to diet . |
| 28 | There are probably too many official visiting bodies concerned with external monitoring of standards of service . |
| 29 | The members of the department follow three distinct approaches to the New Testament , with continuous interchange of ideas in weekly seminars and readings of Greek literature contemporary with the New Testament . |
| 30 | Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers . |