Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] with [art] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore we would expect a forward contract and a financial futures contract with the same specifications to have the same price .
2 And she returned shortly afterwards with a thick roll of notes fastened with a rubber band and Melanie counted out seventy-eight pounds and a ten shilling note and the woman gave her five shillings from her alligator purse .
3 And while the Führer and his army could claim the glory for military successes , the increased — and often voluntary — efforts of members of Party affiliates to cope with the social problems of individuals or groups particularly affected by the war tended to bring contact with disgruntled ‘ people 's comrades ’ but few plaudits and little prestige .
4 At Oxford United a person occupying such a role would have been one of six or seven boys who were always at the front when conflicts arose with the rival fans .
5 The leaflets are being distributed to hotels and guest houses registered with the Northumbria Tourism Board and to travel trade representatives and coach operators throughout Britain .
6 Er , a fourth year of record profits , record er , sales , record margin , with the schools business thirty seven percent ahead of the previous year with our successful maths programme , aided and abetted by er , the business that produces the manipulatives to go with the maths programme .
7 There were fish lying damply in old wooden crates , their scales gleaming with the sickly colours of an oil stain , then rows of chickens with their throats cut , feathers clinging to the legs , and the sawdust was stained with blood and flies , and she began to run , frantic to reach the air outside and breathe .
8 Broadly speaking , their best strategies to cope with a Labour win would be to ensure they make the most of allowances created through the independent taxation of husbands and wives , and — where possible — to take income on a self-employed basis rather than as employees .
9 These quotations hint at a number of important dimensions to policing in Northern Ireland : that policemen and women in the RUC have common-sense conceptualizations of their role , with some defining it in terms of community service ; that they have sets of standardized guide-lines , what Schutz ( 1967 ) calls ‘ recipes ’ , appropriate for the situations they handle ; that they make , and try to maintain , a distinction between work and leisure ; and that they employ various distancing strategies to cope with the demands of their job .
10 They have various strategies to cope with the showy behaviour of boys , such as giving more attention , allotting instant verbal or physical punishment , aligning the curriculum to interest them ; the normal deviant girl does not anyway present too many control problems .
11 Quite rightly strategies to cope with the problems of electronic records are being implemented from the top down , with the various national archives taken a leading role ( Higgs 1992 ) .
12 Her fingers toyed with the ends of the fine saffron scarf she wore in her hair , a floppy bow peeping provocatively from her curls just below one ear .
13 Melossi ( 1985 ) discusses how social discourses change with the various stages of what he calls the political business cycle .
14 However , given that the policies adopted by the UK government and EC Commission were a quota and minimum import price respectively , it is necessary to derive appropriate non-tariff policies to compare with the policies utilized in practice .
15 In fevers the chills predominate with the fever mostly in the day , red faced with cold hands .
16 It was tackled by forming primary R&T groups aligned with the strategy and objectives of each of C&P 's 11 businesses .
17 Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University .
18 Dazed with the heat and noise , sickened by the stink of oil and sweat , eyes , ears and throats filled with a soft clogging dust like the seeds from a million dandelions , they toiled on and on .
19 Finally , after 90 minutes tumbling with the large clasts , the postcrania fragmented still further : four out of five femora remained as chipped proximal ends ( Fig. 1.9d-f,1.10C ) ; one proximal end and two shafts of tibiae ( Fig. 1.9j-1 ) ; four out of five humeri remained as two distal ends ( Fig. 1.10H ) , one proximal and one shaft ( Fig. 1.9 r , s ) ; and all four ulnae remained , one still intact and the others represented by a proximal end and two shafts ( Fig. 1.9 v , w ) .
20 Jake sat back in his chair , his fingers toying with the glass paperweight , yet looking totally composed again , back to his old self .
21 From Woolworths , we will hear that the Dixons management have brought their troubles on themselves , that their attempts to cope with the downturn have been lamentable and that only a new team — with a more analytical approach than the pile-it-high philosophy which did Dixons so proud when times were good — can engineer the necessary closure of small high street outlets in favour of a move to larger ones on the edge of town .
22 His focus is on teachers ' understandings of , and attempts to cope with the situations they experience in schools , and the various pressures and constraints that shape the teaching environment and over which teachers have little control .
23 ‘ Climatic geomorphology attempts to cope with the excessive complexity of natural parameters by holding variables such as structure , lithology and man constant .
24 A family attempts to cope with the eruption into their lives of an unruly aunt .
25 The long-running controversy over Czechoslovak plans to proceed with the Gabcikovo dam project on the River Danube [ see EDs passim ] continues , ahead of talks between Hungary and the Czechoslovak federal government .
26 Life is full of ups and downs and I know that there are going to be bad times to go with the good ones .
27 Determined to defuse the crisis , the Croatian authorities complied with the Presidency 's directive and began a withdrawal on Oct. 3 .
28 The proposals conformed with the EPRDF 's commitment , as published in February 1991 , to " reorganize the administrative structure of the country on a new and democratic basis " in order " to give the nations … wide autonomy to administer their internal affairs on the basis of federation , confederation etc . " .
29 And you do n't have to spend hours struggling with a awkward pins while you get hot over the collar .
30 Christine had to bend her arm down by her side to get her fingers to connect with the keys .
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