Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 2 | The music finally chosen helped greatly in creating a sombre mood , but John did not find it interesting or easy to work with . |
| 3 | She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail . |
| 4 | It now became interesting and profitable to work with others , both in the classroom and in more leisurely periods of revision . |
| 5 | We used to get our hay rakes from the same firm , and they were so beautifully made — light and easy to work with . |
| 6 | It seemed fresh and charming compared with some of the bawdy , world-weary journalists he had to deal with . |
| 7 | An unexpected outing comes your way and you 'll feel buoyant liberated ; willing and able to cope with new demands upon your intellect and personality . |
| 8 | Engaging in sustained interactions with a relatively small proportion of the class presupposes that the remainder are willing and able to work with little attention . |
| 9 | Arabs need to be fast and alert to survive in exposed desert lands , while Highlands have to be sensible and phlegmatic to cope with mountainous terrain . |
| 10 | She would need to be extra sensible and down-to-earth to cope with Adam now . |
| 11 | The rude customer is unpleasant and difficult to deal with . |
| 12 | He was the same Michael , but grown up , and just as engaging and delightful to work with as when he was a kid . ’ |
| 13 | Was n't it damaging for men like them , who ‘ often find it painful and difficult to mingle with people , to speak with them ? ’ |
| 14 | Made of fine violet chiffon , with a floaty , ankle-length skirt , it had a low-cut bodice and narrow shoe-string straps which were deliciously feminine but impossible to wear with a bra . |
| 15 | A few radical spirits were interested but most sympathized with Baldwin 's long-held view that Mosley was ‘ a cad and a wrong ‘ un ’ . |
| 16 | Standard pistol-shaped dryers are still the most popular but many come with a diffuser attachment . |
| 17 | Besides , it is neither easy nor ethical to perch with notebook or video camera over spontaneous scenes of human mating or aggression . |
| 18 | It 's an age when I think erm children leaving school have got to be versatile , self-reliant and able to cope with very changing situation . |
| 19 | Stanley was a big man whereas his wife was small and thin ; he became violent and difficult to live with . |
| 20 | But I do n't like actors that much — I find them egotistical and difficult to cope with , ’ she says . |
| 21 | Even the USA , which in the 1980s still seemed sufficiently vast and dominant to deal with its economic problems without taking any notice of anyone else , at the end of that decade became aware that it ‘ had ceded considerable control over its economy to foreign investors … ( who ) now hold the power to help keep the US economy growing , or to help plunge it into recession ’ ( The Wall Street Journal , December 5 , 1988 , p1 ) . |
| 22 | The most important pre-flight check is to ensure that you pick up the handles so that right and left align with the correct bridles . |
| 23 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 24 | It was unfeminine and difficult to combine with marriage . |
| 25 | Described as ‘ weak and difficult to deal with ’ , she was nonetheless accepted for Oldham Grammar School while living in one room with her mother — a ‘ mentally weak person ’ who worked night shifts . |
| 26 | The only State Department official , past or present , to face charges thus far , Abrams avoided the threat of felony charges by pleading guilty and promising to co-operate with independent prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh . |
| 27 | Here , the aim of assessment is simply to identify whether or not the child 's language is unusual or atypical compared with that of other children of a similar age or in respect of other aspects of development . |
| 28 | If the foe seemed too large or numerous to deal with , he would withdraw discreetly and leave the witless Cleo to her fate . |
| 29 | Smells and odours may be the most powerful single distraction of all — especially if they 're delicious cooking smells — because they 're the most pervasive and difficult to deal with . |
| 30 | If the input information is slightly ambiguous then a feature analyser would be confused and unable to deal with it , a pure feature analysis . |