Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] with the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Akerele v R [ 1943 ] AC 255 ( PC ) , which approved the law in Bateman , a doctor 's careless mixing of a powder with the result that five children died was not manslaughter . |
| 32 | Something which may help here is to try visualising the helicopter as being on the lower end of a pendulum with the transmitter controls moving the top of the pendulum . |
| 33 | Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ . |
| 34 | Eventually , after an hour of torment , Jeopardy swung out of a configuration with the words , ‘ It is clear we will accomplish little today . ’ |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Certainly the tendency of a number of planning studies to equate the vitality of a village with the number of organizations it contains reveals a decidedly middle-class bias and fails to give sufficient weight to the overwhelmingly informal basis of rural working-class association . |
| 37 | But he denied attempting to murder Ivor Stokle and Pauline Leyshon by pushing their burning car over the edge of a cliff with the couple still inside it . |
| 38 | The work on tokamaks was conducted as part of a cooperation with the Soviet Union — the pioneers with that system . |
| 39 | Merely refusing to shop in Smiths , gives us even less of a voice with the stocklists than previously . |
| 40 | Harper , who is the cousin of the former West Indian Test player , Roger Harper , has verbally accepted the offer of a contract with the Prestwick club for the 1993 season . |
| 41 | Perceiving is therefore not thought of as an instant-by-instant following of a phenomenon with the senses , but rather as a condition ( conceived as an abstract before-position ) from whose existence the occurrence of the infinitive action can be inferred resultatively or factually , the latter being conceived therefore as an after-position . |
| 42 | None of these three new flying Spitfires has much of a History with the RAF . |
| 43 | Lesk 's method is to compare the various sense definitions of a word with the definitions of other words in the immediate sentential context . |
| 44 | Most of us , when first looking at Figure 3 , see the drawing of a staircase with the upper surface of the stairs visible . |
| 45 | It is probably recontacted in the practices of Yoga and the meditations of mystics , and comes to be given an ideational content of a bond with the universe and a sense of ‘ limitlessness ’ . |
| 46 | The firm decides to repurchase some of its shares in the market with the proceeds from the issue of a bond with the face value in other words , it substitutes debt for equity on its balance sheet . |
| 47 | The fit is polished as many times as it takes for the residuals to show no more evidence of a relationship with the X values — for the slope to be zero ; the slope usually changes by gradually smaller and smaller amounts , and converges on a stable result . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | It has marred the High Street , and the road to its rear has destroyed all chance of a relationship with the river . |
| 50 | It is made from the liver , lungs and heart of a sheep with the addition of oatmeal and spices , all of which is packed into the sheep 's stomach . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |
| 53 | Goody 's claims that Greek historians have distinguished myth from history is of a kind with the uncritical faith of these classicists . |
| 54 | I am hungry having been too upset for my morning egg because of a difficulty with the soldiers which Pa refused to do anything about , then heartlessly reproduced the very same egg for my lunch . |
| 55 | The speech of the hon. Member for Nottingham , North ( Mr. Allen ) smelt of a weekend with the thesaurus and a few reference books , and was made without reference to what had preceded it . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | While the icing is still soft , mark on ‘ trousers ’ and the lines of a belt with the back of a knife . |
| 58 | MORE THAN 2,000 women have telephoned a helpline after the death of a midwife with the HIV virus . |
| 59 | In many primary classrooms , teachers introduce a new topic by means of a discussion with the whole class . |
| 60 | It also marked the breaking of a link with the past through the death of Miss Helen Stocks who had done much to promote and sustain the work of the District and the WEA in its early years in Northamptonshire . |