Example sentences of "[verb] with the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death seems to be a major theme shown by the author 's morbid description of a graveyard as ‘ the heavy page of death ’ and the images of blackness and mystery mixed with the rather mundane description of the town through which the train is passing . |
| 2 | Obviously it may be too early to answer some of these questions fully , but the fact that I , in common with the majority of arts teachers working in secondary schools in this country , have been grappling with the very difficult process of assessing , marking and moderating the work of the first batch of pupils to take the GCSE examination will , I believe , give added force to some of the things I intend to say . |
| 3 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
| 4 | Responsibility for the maintenance of parish property , such as church halls and curates ' homes , lies with the most local level of all , the Parish Church Council . |
| 5 | Husbandmen , as was to be expected with the most numerous class — and as the typical countrymen — comprehended a broad spectrum . |
| 6 | Many castles have their son et lumiere shows , several model towns have bee built ; but here we combine the model makers craft with the most sophisticated electronic techniques , toe create the Town Model Sound and Light Experience . |
| 7 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
| 8 | Disillusioned with the ruthlessly ambitious woman he had married , Richard had long ago turned his back on her . |
| 9 | Perhaps What 's Brewing could feature an up-to-date list of local beer guides every other month , alternating with the painfully unfunny P.A. Newton column ? — DAVE WHITE , Wigan . |
| 10 | As indeed is the stubby gear shift with the ultra short throw . |
| 11 | He had barely a scratch upon him , he was hardly blown by comparison with these , and he stood off while they breathed , and at the last lighted down from his tired horse , to meet with the most valiant on equal terms . |
| 12 | Taking an unmarked structure such as The book received a great deal of publicity in China as a starting point , we can suggest a number of possible thematic structures in English , starting with the least marked and ending with the most marked . |
| 13 | Independence was granted , either willingly or reluctantly , over a period of thirty years beginning with the cases of Ghana , Sudan and Morocco in the 1950s and ending with the somewhat exceptional one of Zimbabwe in 1980 . |
| 14 | On the first floor of Monte Cristo is a Moorish room with its white plaster entirely embellished with the most intricate Arabic patterns . |
| 15 | Both pieces of equipment had obviously been rebuilt with meticulous and loving care and shone with glossy new paint of the dark green picked out with gold which I always associate with the more impressive railway engines . |
| 16 | The academic community in many universities was startled by the ferocity of the cuts , and responded with the most short-term of strategies — voluntary severance for virtually any staff member who wanted it . |
| 17 | The interest of this curious bower is much enhanced by the manner in which it is decorated with the most gaily-coloured articles that can be collected , such as the blue tail-feathers of the Rose-hill and Pennantian Parrakeets , bleached bones , the shells of snails , & c some of the feathers are inserted among the twigs , while others with the bones and shells are strewn about near the entrances . |
| 18 | And equally I disagree with the very poor performa poor sorry poor performance given er er in particular to the A nineteen north . |
| 19 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 20 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 21 | The problem for any intelligence agency , East or West , is whether to take a politician at his word when he is publicly declaring a desire for greater friendship and understanding with the very same people against whom the covert operation is intended . |
| 22 | The Party Conference at Southport at Whitsun was thus presented with the most drastic series of measures taken against the Left since the Edinburgh Conference . |
| 23 | For such results show the police to be ‘ on the side of righteousness ’ , arraigned with the numerically superior forces of goodness and order in their fight against darkness and the void . |
| 24 | But any interference by us to control the judgment of the visitor , would be attended with the most mischievous consequences , since we must then decide on the statutes of the college , of which we are ignorant , and the construction of which has been confided to another forum . |
| 25 | If , therefore , we were to interfere , it would be for the purpose of controlling his judgment ; but any interference by us to control the judgment of the visitor would be attended with the most mischievous consequences , since we must then decide upon the statutes of the college , of which we are ignorant , and the construction of which has been confided to another forum . ’ |
| 26 | Mix with the finely chopped shallots , tarragon and parsley . |
| 27 | The tendency of our officials , who naturally wish their work to be done with the least possible friction , is all in favour of the railway method of carriage . ’ |
| 28 | A favoured hypothesis is that the persistence of a large body of magma allows it to become vertically stratified with the more viscous and gas-rich component accumulating towards the top ( Fig. 5.16 ) . |
| 29 | Individualism will gradually assert itself — which does n't mean you 've fallen out of love , merely out of that phase of romantic love we confuse with the more lasting thing . |
| 30 | Others were distinctly modern , looking sharp and raw against the soft colours of their rural backdrop , but all were built with the steeply sloping roofs and heavy timbering that she 'd already come to recognise as typical of the region . |