Example sentences of "[noun pl] with a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some Japanese still harbour a nostalgia for lost European greatness , the ‘ Western ’ package which formerly embraced all cultural , intellectual , physical and institutional characteristics with a source in Western Europe or the US has now come to mean almost exclusively the latter . |
| 2 | To their credit , they 've all but ditched RDF 's cringeworthy word polemics , giving a greater role to singer Linda Goodman and infusing almost all their songs with a wealth of nightmarish samples . |
| 3 | Trees and the treasury : Valuing Forests for Society argues that a history of subsidised conifer plantations has left timber growers with a surplus of mature trees which cost more to fell and process than they earn as timber . |
| 4 | I myself was accidentally witness to the diverting scene of a journeyman taylor 's beating his wife about the ears with a neck of mutton , to make her know , as he said , her sovereign lord and master . |
| 5 | I 'll tell you , if ever I get into the Owsla , I 'll treat outskirters with a bit of decency . " |
| 6 | ‘ It 's funny how one associates places with irrelevant things , ’ said Penelope , who had been listening to Sophia 's probings with a kind of fascinated horror . |
| 7 | The church in Sussex lasted over four centuries with a minimum of influence upon surviving historical records , although the scale of its eleventh-century church towers at Sompting , Southease and other places , illustrate that authority if not the people supported it . |
| 8 | Yes erm modern business parks , erm they come in various shapes and sizes , some in extensive landscape settings with a lot of space around them , er and some at er Clifton Moor in York which er are more compact . |
| 9 | Heat can be applied in several forms and by several methods with a variety of equipment the more common of which are as follows- . |
| 10 | Distribution of labelled cells within crypts was similar with respect to the two methods with a peak at the 18th and the 24th percentile in the case of BrdU and at the 23rd percentile for PCNA . |
| 11 | Introductory notes give tips on tension swatches , measurements and knitting methods with a list of suggestions on how to use the designs to create individual and personalised garments . |
| 12 | Some nodules with a diameter of 4–6 mm in three of 13 pancreatic sections in the PBD group , but none of those in the fundectomy group , were surrounded by a fibrous capsule and maintained an acinar cell differentiation suggesting adenomatous change ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 13 | It operates by exchanging infra-red signals with a network of sensors installed around the building , which are in turn connected to an Ethernet . |
| 14 | So we would run many SQL Servers with a Navigation at the front . |
| 15 | In run-off presidential elections held on July 5 , Sixto Durán Ballén , 71 , leader of the right-wing United Republican Party ( PUR ) , won 19 of the 21 provinces with a total of 2,174,860 votes ( 57.9 per cent of the vote ) , defeating Jaime Nebot Saadi , 46 , of the ( also right-wing ) Social Christian Party ( PSC ) , who received 1,584,482 votes ( 42.1 per cent ) . |
| 16 | The talks had been undertaken by the English-speaking provinces with a view to agreeing a package of reforms which would induce Quebec to remain within the Canadian confederation . |
| 17 | This chapter can be skipped by all except readers with a fetish for library standards . |
| 18 | The Commission of the European Communities has prepared a proposal for a Council Directive on the legal protection of databases with a view to harmonizing this area of copyright law throughout the European Communities ( 92/C 156/03 ) . |
| 19 | Preference will be given to candidates with a record of achievement in research supported by publications . |
| 20 | Many do this smoothly , producing oscillating waves with a frequency of about 50 hertz — the same frequency as the mains electricity in our homes — although some can vary the rate and , depending on the species , may reach as high as 2000 hertz . |
| 21 | Contrary to the creationist literature , not only are animals with " half a wing " common , so are animals with a quarter of a wing , three quarters of a wing , and so on . |
| 22 | People sometimes put other companion animals with a horse for company , like a sheep or cow . |
| 23 | Shading her eyes with a hand against the bright sunlight , she paused to watch the acrobatics of a troupe of black-backed screaming gulls , but the wind blew suddenly colder , tearing at her hair . |
| 24 | Shaded , smokey eyes with a feeling of the 60's promise drama . |
| 25 | ‘ Are the teachers strict here ? ’ asked Sybil , wiping her eyes with a corner of her voluminous cloak . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's what I thought , ’ Dana said , mopping her eyes with a corner of the towel . |
| 27 | Her motives unclear , even to herself , she 'd taken enormous trouble with her face after her bath , disguising the bruise with a cover-up stick , accenting her eyes with a hint of shadow . |
| 28 | Many of the tankbusters I keep enjoy good relationships with a variety of companion fish . |
| 29 | Clive , descended from Clive of India , together with Stokes developed close personal working relationships with a number of blue-chip companies and did not plan to expand the firm . |
| 30 | General practitioners were asked to assess the extent to which they thought relationships with a number of other persons and organisations had changed as a result of acquiring fundholding status . |