Example sentences of "[verb] with [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside dark , vaulted rooms whose mahogany shelves are heavy with jars , bottles and vials , elderly white-bearded men can be seen feeling the pulse of heavily-veiled women ; behind , in the shadows , their assistants are busy decanting liquids like mediaeval alchemists : white powders are mixed with grey crystals then , slowly , crystal by crystal , dissolved in a vat of bubbling , frothing liquid . |
| 2 | Sessions last one hour and they are grouped with similar children as far as possible . |
| 3 | ( The planner is included with dotted lines only , because his or her function is often performed by the account executive . ) |
| 4 | I let go of the beam and dropped with bent legs so as to splash down softly and felt the breath rush out of my lungs from the iciness of the river . |
| 5 | ( a ) Public law proceedings Article 3 of the APO ensures that public law proceedings are commenced in the magistrates ' court unless it is appropriate to consolidate with existing proceedings elsewhere . |
| 6 | Fowles 's finest novel , The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , is decorated with parodistic devices far less integral than in Joyce 's Ulysses , as if a technique needed to be aped and mocked in order to be exorcised . |
| 7 | As an inmate you are shut away in a jail without a name and escape is an option rarely considered with armed guards carefully positioned at the perimeter fence of some of the prisons . |
| 8 | Many horses have a lot of negative things happen to them in their lives , like Anna ; but unlike with Anna , they are usually interspersed with good things too — which fortunately have an undoing effect . |
| 9 | Joanne has experience as a care assistant already , so she was able to work with other assistants straight away . |
| 10 | After all , the sentence is one of the building blocks of a piece of prose , so it makes sense to be able to work with whole sentences rather than having to highlight each word within one manually . |
| 11 | By charting in fixed and variable costs , and then showing revenue , it is possible to see the point at which total revenue equates with total costs ie the break-even point . |
| 12 | But the besieged British of Ulster have to make do with liberal platitudes instead of a tough security police . |
| 13 | The result is that Central Europe mist make do with financial subsidies instead , as if it were an undeveloped region of the world . |
| 14 | Chop with fine scissors ill a tilted glass Petri dish . |
| 15 | The series , called ‘ Horace ’ , met with mixed reactions mainly because the public generally feels that mental handicap is not something one should laugh about , or at least not admit to . |
| 16 | Notice how his long harness lines are enabling him to sail with straight arms thereby keeping the rig upright . |
| 17 | The ISS approach deals with low expectations more indirectly by seeking to improve in a more general and holistic way the practice of all teachers , including the head . |
| 18 | We will also be more prepared ( though by no means certain ) to comply with personal constraints under two conditions : that the constraints are seen as being in the service of some greater ‘ good ’ and that they are seen as operating justly and fairly . |
| 19 | Almost every shape of sofa can now conceal a full-size mattress , and many ordinary beds can be bought with space-saving drawers underneath and be disguised with fitted covers and back cushions . |
| 20 | The leaf-stalk is thickened with air-filled tissues inside for buoyancy of the plant . |
| 21 | Palatable seaweeds in North Carolina have improved fitness if growing with unpalatable competitors less susceptible to herbivory , i.e. one competitor seeming helpful to another , the abundance of the less palatable leading to increases in abundances and numbers of other species . |
| 22 | I eventually found Mrs Newton 's road , off an interminable High Street that was crammed with small shops mostly with Asian names over their facades . |
| 23 | The 12 children in Lucas and Kenton wards opened their stockings before Santa arrived with other gifts yesterday . |
| 24 | Distracting techniques are frequently used with pre-school children either before a problem arises or as a palliative once the problem is occurring , for example pointing to an aeroplane flying in the sky to help the child forget that the ice cream van is parked outside the playground . |
| 25 | Seams are stitched with right sides together taking 1.5cm ( ⅝″ ) seam allowances . |
| 26 | articulate with other provisions e.g. National Certificate , degree programmes , the provision of professional bodies and industry/commerce ; |
| 27 | Research in Newcastle has shown that about a third of all children referred with psychiatric disorders also suffered from undiagnosed depression . |
| 28 | A similar paradox can arise with other norms supposedly based at a biological level , but there are cases that avoid it . |
| 29 | It can be blended with other fibres too . |
| 30 | Similarly , banks make merchandise loans to enable customers to cope with seasonal imports especially where bulk purchases might ensure considerable discounts . |