Example sentences of "of a [noun] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis of a structure with the pointed arch supported on piers led , over many years , to great variety in vault design . |
| 2 | The Duke 's thumbnail had forced a small scar into the map at another crossroads , this one much closer to Brussels and just south of a village with the odd name of Waterloo . |
| 3 | The work on tokamaks was conducted as part of a cooperation with the Soviet Union — the pioneers with that system . |
| 4 | Most of us , when first looking at Figure 3 , see the drawing of a staircase with the upper surface of the stairs visible . |
| 5 | It was the strangest part of a detective 's job , this building up of a relationship with the dead , seen only as a crumpled corpse at the scene of crime or naked on the mortuary table . |
| 6 | He seems to have returned briefly to Massachusetts , perhaps in connection with his property there , but was back in England by 1643 , in the service of the younger Sir Henry Vane [ q.v. ] , who as governor of the Bay colony at a precociously early age had been something of a fellow-traveller with the alleged heretics . |
| 7 | Goody 's claims that Greek historians have distinguished myth from history is of a kind with the uncritical faith of these classicists . |
| 8 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 9 | In many primary classrooms , teachers introduce a new topic by means of a discussion with the whole class . |
| 10 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 11 | A classic case of a country with the wrong priorities in health is Congo . |
| 12 | The Jersey 's ancestors were probably of the Celtic type ( there is certainly a hint of a likeness with the dainty dairy Kerry of Ireland ) , coming to Europe from Asia and North Africa . |
| 13 | It was the practice to walk out of a Sunday with the braided leather belt showing just below your waistcoat . |
| 14 | ‘ Sgt Maj Cross was coming to the end of a three-year-posting with the Royal Army Medical Corps . |
| 15 | These transitions are in the main successful in linking different phases and details of a flight with the central themes and prominent linguistic features of popular fiction which Nash treats as being the " airport literature " par excellence . |
| 16 | Compare for example the dry woody flavour of a chardonnay with the sweet flowery taste of a Gewürztraminer . |
| 17 | The form in which , however , the tension still emerges in the in-service education of teachers and in such training as is provided for education management in the period after the 1988 Education Reform Act is that of a preoccupation with the separate skills and tasks of management . |
| 18 | But er no , Sir Edward had to go through the full rigmarole of a meeting with the great man , I put that in inverted commas , but er I suppose he thinks he is , the great man himself , Saddam Hussein . |
| 19 | However , a government statement issued at the end of a meeting with the Unified Movements and Fronts of Azawad on May 20 declared that both parties were convinced that the attack was the work of " unscrupulous and lawless " people . |
| 20 | ‘ You heard d'Aubigny — Queen Margaret is welcome back in Scotland so why this farce of a meeting with the Scottish envoys ? |
| 21 | Union representatives at the plant have called for the reconvening of a meeting with the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , whom they met last Friday in an attempt to win government backing for their fight against the redundancies . |
| 22 | It is better to control them during this ‘ in-ground ’ period , the best control being achieved by watering down a solution of a chemical , one of a group with the long name ‘ chlorinated hydrocarbons ’ , and used primarily in this case on lawns as a wormkiller . |
| 23 | The Coughs section has been arranged in the form of a table with the different characteristics of the cough in the lefthand column . |
| 24 | as if they had n't already got enough to do , the referees will have one hell of a job with the new law . |
| 25 | I 'm not looking for some sinecure of a job with the cosy family firm , Lucy ! |
| 26 | Of course , the quantum yields for such emissions are extremely low , and the experiments require species with inherently strong spectra ( less of a limitation with the new stimulated-emission methods ) . |
| 27 | Partial paths compete temporarily but then drop out because of a mismatch with the incoming phonemic material . |
| 28 | Clearly rattled at the prospect of a confrontation with the spiritual father of 52 million US voters , the White House said yesterday that the Church ‘ is playing a very serious and constructive role ’ . |
| 29 | While in command of Venturous I missed out on a lot of the big drug operations through being in the north of Scotland , but I always enjoyed working as part of a team with the other cutters or any of the shore units . |
| 30 | This early framework for sensory physiology — of a piece with the Hobbesian idea of ‘ the organ proper to each sense ’ — has undergone a good deal of refinement . |