Example sentences of "with a [noun sg] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a choice of either a direct line up the centre of the face or a buttress to the right that led to the unclimbed south ridge of the mountain , the team opted for the buttress approach , avoiding serious stonefall on the direct line . |
| 2 | Traditionally , those with 25 service have been presented with inscribed watches , but for the first time the 40 year award has been introduced with a choice of either a canteen of cutlery or a set of crystal glasses and decanter as a gift from the company . |
| 3 | The church had been partly demolished by a devastating gale in the 1930s , to the secret relief of the Church Commissioners who had been considering what to do with a building of absolutely no architectural merit serving a congregation at the major festivals of six at the most . |
| 4 | We also have some evidence that there is a much larger black hole , with a mass of about a hundred thousand times that of the sun , at the center of our galaxy . |
| 5 | On the other hand , a black hole with a mass of only a billion tons — that is , a primordial black hole , roughly the size of a proton — would have a temperature of some 120 billion degrees Kelvin , which corresponds to an energy of some ten million electron volts . |
| 6 | The first necessary stage in the exercise of the ‘ right of access ’ is to discover the existence of the files , since ‘ access ’ is not a meaningful term unless combined with a knowledge of where the files are . |
| 7 | In the cavernous exhibition hall , more than 300 salesmen offered everything from reproduction Gatling guns to a Barrett 82A , a semi-automatic rifle with a range of almost a mile — ‘ as used by three countries in Operation Desert Storm . ’ |
| 8 | The rates actually paid , therefore , may be calculated , It will be clear that the rates paid may vary with a change in either the rateable value or the rate poundage . |
| 9 | After 1976 there was a massive decline in manufacturing as a whole with a fall of over a third in total manufacturing jobs in the region between 1976 and 1984 . |
| 10 | The chapter ends with a discussion of how the growing problem of managing the additive agendas created by international developments affects governments ' bargaining power and their behaviour towards the multinationals . |
| 11 | When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye . |
| 12 | By September 1988 there were six such groups meeting fortnightly with a membership of about a dozen each . |
| 13 | July 1749 , Hogarth acquired the Copyhold of a red brick villa , of the Queen Anne style , with a garden of about a quarter of an acre containing an old mulberry tree , not far from Chiswick House , and it became known as Hogarth House , and the lane by which it was approached became known as Hogarth Lane — now part of the Great West Road Extension ( A4 ) into central London . |
| 14 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 15 | Even Italy , which suffered recurrent economic stagnation from the seventeenth century to the 1950s , claims to have overtaken the UK in the value of production per head ( with a population of virtually the same size ) . |
| 16 | Today , the kestrel , if not endangered , is certainly one of the world 's rarest birds of prey , with a population of only a few hundred . |
| 17 | With a population of almost a score of thousands , the place was a notable monument to the values of industry and initiative . |
| 18 | There was a card club which met once a week in winter , where Green played with a group of about a dozen , including his doctor , Richard Scambler , and James Fleming of Grasmere and the Partridges , Robert and Edward . |
| 19 | I feel the time is now right to respond to local bargaining initiatives , C C T and L M S , with a review of how the research department could best provide their services to the people at the sharp end . |
| 20 | Different parties offer different quantities of public goods together with a statement of how the money will be raised through the tax system . |