Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's going away in a couple of weeks with the Brownies |
| 2 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 3 | Hers had an embroidered picture of a lamb standing in a field of flowers with yellow light sprouting out from around its head . |
| 4 | Further work from many parts of the world have demonstrated chlamydia in a proportion of patients with non-gonococcal infection and , when they have been tested , in their sexual partners . |
| 5 | The latter observation suggests that in a proportion of patients with venous ulcers , bacterial infection and/or oedema may not be controlled . |
| 6 | My supper flapped off round the corner in a storm of feathers with the blood coming out of the side of its beak . |
| 7 | And we can help in a variety of ways with immediate cash help … paying towards the cost of a heating bill … a rates demand … or a telephone bill , sometimes an elderly person 's only link with the outside world . |
| 8 | After the timid The Maggie ( 1953 , High and Dry in US ) , Mackendrick 's Ealing oeuvre culminates in The Ladykillers ( 1955 ) where a gang of bank robbers , masquerading as an unlikely string quartet , engages in a battle of wills with an unutterably sweet and totally irritating landlady , symbol of Ealing 's ( and England 's ) determination not to think about the modern world , smothering the horrors and the nightmares in gentility . |
| 9 | Refusing to use the lavatory in a battle of wills with the parent and a fight for power and control . |
| 10 | We reckoned that we could probably deal with any nonsense from Mazzin , not that we wanted to waste our energies in a battle of nerves with him . |
| 11 | One risk was that if they did n't act there was a gunman on the loose , desperate , he 's after all escaped from prison , possibly in a confined space in a block of flats with a vantage point . |
| 12 | Your body may have become out of shape through general neglect over a period of years , yet you can transform it incredibly in a matter of days with my unique dieting methods and special exercises . |
| 13 | Given the structure of the PGCE week at the time , I was never able to involve students in a sequence of lessons with one class over a time span exceeding two days . |
| 14 | One of the conclusions of this research is that nuclear families are not isolated but are actually placed in a network of relationships with kin and others . |
| 15 | Jared Tunstall , who manipulated billions of dollars , made and broke men at will , whose power was legendary , had never managed in a clash of wills with the daughter he adored to overcome her , once she had made her mind up , or decided on a course of action . |
| 16 | The atom would be unstable , as its electrons spiralled ever closer to the nucleus , and it would emit its dying radiation in a band of frequencies with no trace of the discreteness shown by [ 2 ] The nuclear atom dealt the coup de grâce to classical physics . |
| 17 | They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail . |
| 18 | In 1275 he surrendered custody of Kilgerran but retained Abergavenny till 1281 and was embroiled during this period in a number of disputes with the tenants of the honour . |
| 19 | Functionalist ( or stratificational ) sociologists disagree sharply in a number of respects with this Marxist analysis of social class . |
| 20 | As she spoke , the tractor came snorting into the yard in a cloud of fumes with the trailer , piled high with logs , rattling and bumping behind it . |
| 21 | An inherited susceptibility has recently been reported in a subgroup of patients with common — that is , apparently sporadic — adenomatous polyps . |
| 22 | He was engaging in a war of nerves with her , Isabel realised at last , but he did n't remember . |
| 23 | BRISTOL ROVERS boss Dennis Rofe was involved in a war of words with counterpart Neil Warnock after their 3-3 thriller with NOTTS COUNTY . |
| 24 | DRAYTON Asia Trust yesterday joined in a war of words with EFM Dragon , the Edinburgh-managed investment trust which targeted it for takeover a fortnight ago . |
| 25 | Been involved in a lot of contracts with him . |
| 26 | Recall that in a group of families with above-average measured incomes , Y > Y p — this means that the measured apc ( = C/ Y ) will necessarily be less than the long-run apc ( = C/ Y p ) . |
| 27 | The idea was to get a fairly homogeneous sample , to look at housework attitudes in a group of women with similar backgrounds . |
| 28 | For instance , in a group of patients with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis who were treated with an elimination diet followed by a wheat-free diet , cervical reintegration and the green-lipped mussel preparation , Seatone , significant and often dramatic improvements were obtained in a fortnight of an order similar to , or better than , those obtained by either homoeopathy or Seatone alone over a period of three to six months . |
| 29 | In another study , prolonged oesophageal transit in a group of patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease persisted after a surgical antireflux procedure . |
| 30 | We extended the range of indications of the Munich group , and performed extracorporeal lithotripsy combined with oral bile acid dissolution in a group of patients with four or more than 25 radiolucent stones . |