Example sentences of "[to-vb] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past two decades , the Commission and Court have been asked by aggrieved individuals to rule upon matters such as the rights of prisoners to communicate with the outside world and police interrogation methods . |
| 2 | The tape showed Anderson sitting , struggling to keep himself alive and to communicate with the outside world , but the world was n't going to see it . |
| 3 | The communist party considered art an appropriate promotional weapon to communicate with the outside world and started patronising certain artists . |
| 4 | His bluff style , orchestration of a pliant group of lobby correspondents and capacity to communicate with the Prime Minister almost telepathically , justified the tag ‘ the deputy Prime Minister ’ . |
| 5 | He or she may be able to communicate with the central computer via a network ( Chapter 1 ) but special products like graph-plotter output have to be sent through the postal system , and are thus not available quickly . |
| 6 | ‘ to fall within the principle , not only ( 1 ) must there be a necessity to act when it is not practicable to communicate with the assisted person , but also ( 2 ) the action taken must be such as a reasonable person would in all the circumstances take , acting in the best interests of the assisted person . |
| 7 | I was more of an outsider than ever , but something in me must still have wanted to belong to the family because I was still making deliberate attempts to communicate with the other members . |
| 8 | In spite of all the technological developments land sophistication and speed of modern communication , the point of a campaign roadshow is the same as it was in the days of the whistle-stop tour when politicians addressed voters from the backs of trains : to communicate with the maximum number of people in the short time available . |
| 9 | We never receive the impression that Dickens has to struggle with the English language to express his meaning . |
| 10 | It could argue that while it still had to struggle with the painful problem of modernisation in much of the coal industry , its economic statistics compared favourably with those of other countries . |
| 11 | They need to struggle with the thorny issue of whose interests come first , and they must be ready to let go of some aspirations and commitments if they are to enjoy what they decide to do . |
| 12 | A levy on imports and exports is one possibility , although it may prove difficult to square with the free-trade regulations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 13 | Rayner wants an energy-efficiency office to assume control of all mainstream R&D on conservation , including that done by the Building Research Establishment , Another area of contention surrounds the department 's assumptions that coal and oil prices will rise in the next few years — a prospect rather difficult to square with the growing coal mountain in Britain and OPEC 's slashed oil prices . |
| 14 | The proposed broadening of the granting of investment aids for the purpose of protecting and improving the environment ( part of Article 3 ) is to be welcomed although it does not appear to square with the basic investment aid objectives of such plans because it appears to mean that environmental investment per se will qualify for support , even if not part of an agricultural improvement . |
| 15 | No I do n't think that 's , sorry , I think it is perfectly possible for Stella to make this assumption to get them changed and to come with the revised version which says , which is apparently what Jenny has done here , this looks to me , in a not unreasonable way , it looks , she is saying something is there , this must be an example of what Stella means , data can be stored in three different ways where clearly previously that said four different ways . |
| 16 | The plastic monsters look like ruling the planet for some time to come with the mammoth film and merchandise promotion that 's going on , selling everything from dinosaur lip balm to brontosaurus burgers . |
| 17 | The plastic monsters look like ruling the planet for some time to come with the mammoth film and merchandise promotion that 's going on , selling everything from dinosaur lip balm to brontosaurus burgers . |
| 18 | These differences may reflect the influence of parental or pedagogic pressure to write with the right hand as compared with a natural predisposition to use the left hand . |
| 19 | Moscovitch found support for his proposition in the fact that split-brain patients sometimes begin to write with the left hand what is clearly a correct response to a stimulus seen in the left visual field , but that then the left hemisphere takes over control and the response is finished incorrectly since the left half of the brain has not seen the stimulus ( Levy , Mebes and Sperry , 1971 ) . |
| 20 | Are you going to tour with the new album ? |
| 21 | Presumably , the next step is to tour with the new material … |
| 22 | Hagiographic in tone , it fails to grapple with the real issues of racism , Jewish identity , sexuality , notions of femininity/masculinity , the social , political and artistic milieu in Britain , all of which are raided by his life , work and its public reception . |
| 23 | He was also prepared to grapple with the practical consequences of his view . |
| 24 | That long-anticipated non-profit X trade association , the X Industry Association , brainchild of The X Business Group , is getting off the ground : it 's picked itself a chairman in David Harris of Adobe Systems Inc and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic Inc , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of Digital Equipment Corp and Michael Harrigan of Network Computing Devices Inc and Anil Malhotra of IXI Ltd ; members include Applied Digital Data Systems , Grafpoint , Hummingbird , Kinesix , Non Standard Logics , Omron , Shographics , TeleSoft , Visual Edge and Walker , Richer & Quinn ; the new body is to market , promote and educate in the name of X , leaving the X Consortium , while it still exists , to grapple with the technical issues . |
| 25 | It 's going to market , promote and educate in the name of X , leaving the X Consortium , while it still exists , to grapple with the technical issues . |
| 26 | In the meantime , it is left to Michael Aspel to grapple with the contemporary record . |
| 27 | It is beyond the scope of this chapter to grapple with the full implications of the whole ERA for pre-school education , particularly with regard to ‘ opting out ’ , financial delegation , especially as , at the time of writing , vesting days for each of these major elements have yet to be announced , and discussion would be speculative . |
| 28 | We believe that no other group engaged in geomorphic research is as well qualified to grapple with the human factor as are geographers . |
| 29 | The Dee Hall is larger than the Royal Oak , and the management has to grapple with the organizational problems involved in a change of ownership while simultaneously deciding how to develop an adjoining site . |
| 30 | He erm he was n't giving evidence at the enquiry , but erm it was at his suggestion that I was asked to meet with the Chief Planning Officer prior to the to talk about alternative sites . |