Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] with [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kamal Jumblatt lived — and Walid still lives — in a magnificent palace of dressed stone at Mukhtara , its courtyards alive with fountains and artificial waterfalls and green-uniformed gunmen . |
| 2 | One morning in his childhood he came downstairs , opened a door ‘ and it was like below the decks of an old galleon complete with hammocks hanging up ’ . |
| 3 | This tour focuses on the blissful lake setting of Srinagar where accommodation is in traditional houseboats , luxurious floating palaces complete with verandas and houseboys . |
| 4 | It 'd look a bit odd with bricks though , I think . |
| 5 | Fireater will be supplying their renowned Viking layflat hose complete with couplings specified by British Coal made of plastic and alloy materials . |
| 6 | The two women were staying at the Baya Camp at Lake Sibaya , an isolated settlement popular with tourists seeking to experience the African bush in the wild . |
| 7 | Criticism was made of his publicity leaflet , which featured a photograph not only of the candidate , but a Family Ensemble complete with children . |
| 8 | When Beth finished reading , she sat still and silent for a moment , her heart aching , and her mind alive with memories of her old friend . |
| 9 | I wondered how they preserved branches complete with leaves until this time of year . |
| 10 | Various councils organized lectures and magic-lantern shows ; pamphlets and tracts were distributed by the thousands and there were courses of study complete with examinations in Nonconformist history and teaching with prizes for the winners . |
| 11 | In truth , however , humble photocopying has been overtaken by the wonders of the fax and personal computers complete with printers . |
| 12 | An unexpected gap in the mountains beckoned us to a silent lake fed by waterfalls and surrounded by woods with banks of moss , lichens and fungi alive with lemmings scurrying among holes and tree roots . |
| 13 | Late betting rule unpopular with punters |
| 14 | Atta cephalotes builds nests up to 150 m 2 in surface area , containing up to 5 million workers , ranging from minima 2 mm long to the largest soldier 20mm long with medians about 10mm long , which do most of the leaf cutting . |
| 15 | Luke tried to steer her across the road , but she turned on him , her eyes heavy with shadows , her face pale and strained . |
| 16 | Functional studies were essentially positivist in nature and depended upon the notion that phenomena can be explained as instances of repeated and predictable regularities in which form and function can be assumed to be related , and indeed form and process figured in the titles of a number of books concerned with processes ( e.g. Carson and Kirkby , 1972 ; Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) . |
| 17 | A shout from the front of the wood called him back to the edge of the field , where men were watching a group of the enemy busy with spades on the high ground to his left , near the wood where they stationed the Normans . |
| 18 | Heading the list of organizations concerned with women 's development were the Girl Guides , the Izamar Centre ( women 's section of the Opus Dei ) and the Association of Salvadorean Executive Secretaries . |
| 19 | Side by side with this grew up a number of smaller specialised departments — a bureau des fonds which dealt with the ministry 's own internal finances , the surveillance of foreigners in France , questions of diplomatic privilege and a wide variety of other relatively minor issues ; a bureau des interprètes which took shape in the 1750s and 1760s and was given definitive form in 1768 ; a department concerned with codes and cyphers ; and a geographical one which by the 1780s had a remarkable collection of about 10,000 maps . |
| 20 | Instead , in a $52 billion-a-year industry obsessed with appearances , some companies seem to think that ‘ creativity ’ and ‘ style ’ rather than hard-headed business strategies are the keys to success . |
| 21 | She sat up and stared at Matthew , her eyes red with tears . |
| 22 | ‘ After lengthy consultation with a heating engineer now in Matteawan , my wife and I installed a pipeless furnace inlaid with emeralds and jade which feeds the warmth directly into an upstairs closet , leaving the rest of the establishment at freezing point . |
| 23 | Serve packets unopened with potatoes and green vegetables . |
| 24 | ‘ I swear it , ’ Joan said earnestly , her eyes bright with tears . |
| 25 | Eyes bright with tears , she looked at Mary , and then saw Rory standing behind and to one side of them . |
| 26 | She picked up a cotton skirt patterned with roses . |
| 27 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |
| 28 | They wear heavy and very ornate armour resplendent with plumes and ribbons . |
| 29 | Miss MacLean had a waist-length mannequin , ‘ very beautiful ’ , in her shop window uncluttered with posters and advertisements of local events . |
| 30 | Can you walk out from your home to a wet meadow , where snipe drum and redshanks call , or to a pond with frog spawn in spring and dragonflies in summer , or to a flowery meadow alive with buttercups , oxeye daisies and poppies ? |