Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He adopted the same principle in the spandrels as William Edwards had used eight years before at Pontypridd ( q.v. ) , lightening the load with hollow tunnels through the rubble infilling .
2 On Aug. 10 the liberation of prisoners resumed with simultaneous releases by the government and UNITA , and further exchanges during the month .
3 But with 500 officers of the KGB Foreign Veterans Association all with stories to tell , as well as offshoots from the KGB making their files available to the highest bidders , it is not clear who owns the rights to which stories .
4 The team found that the supply of fresh water for all purposes in Baghdad had fallen to between 5 and 20 litres per person per day compared with 500 litres before the war , and that diarrhoeal diseases among children had quadrupled .
5 They have accentuated the inequalities of provision , with rural areas in the remoter mountains feeling the most strain .
6 An appendix to the report dealing with possible breaches of the criminal law was not released to the public but was sent directly to the state 's director of public prosecutions .
7 They may even come up with possible solutions to the problems faced that will be equally attributable to their own situation , although they may be quite unaware of this until their attention is drawn to it .
8 During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee .
9 Much of each judgment was taken up with painstaking reviews of the historical and social context of the advertisement 's publication , with the syntactical features of the sentence and its relationship to the rest of the advertisement , and with the undeniable fact that indeed there was considerable ‘ evidence ’ about the matters at hand at the time of the advertisement 's publication .
10 Usually it is a matter of payment by instalments with intervening reciprocities in the form of hospitality and counter-gifts meanwhile .
11 National Provident Institution 's Directors ' Select Portfolio is designed to offer a wide choice of investments with low charges in the small self-administered scheme ( SSAS ) market .
12 Perhaps the most important function of deprivation payments was to compensate practices with low lists after the introduction of the new contract , which linked income much more closely to capitation .
13 Six to fourteen day cruises with eight ships in the Caribbean and Mediterranean .
14 For the remaining hour Barcelona , encouraged by the news from Kiev where Dynamo beat Sparta Prague 1–0 before a crowd of just 3,000 , played a speculative game vastly at odds with their attacking image , to the extent where veteran defender Alexanko was sent on to replace striker Laudrup in a side defending with eight players in the area .
15 The souvenir programme , looking like an enormous chocolate box covered in purple velvet , included a photograph of John Tiller with eight portraits of the Girls round him .
16 A goal is any state with eight pieces on the board .
17 We have to visualize the process of change as a gradual one , with progressive forays from the water , until the first animal with true limbs developed ( the bony elements of the limb are present in the fish fin ) .
18 With eleven women plus the Spare Rib Collective we were not able to cover all of these topics , but as has been mentioned this discussion is to launch a series which hopefully will discuss all of these issues and more .
19 Even so , with eleven members of the family moving was a massive exercise .
20 It was non-stop action too , with eleven races in the afternoon .
21 But it had also become a flourishing offshore finance centre with 347 banks before the investigation .
22 In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) .
23 Will Carling 's effort is a good record , although a little too caught up with imagined slights of the press last season .
24 If you 're anything like me ( and with due apologies to the ladies ) you will have arrived home and found either your wife or husband desperately trying to shove a six foot sofa into a five foot ten inch space between a door and a wall .
25 This compares with 70% for persons charged with normal crimes in the United Kingdom as a whole .
26 It is always necessary , however , to remember that the bands are not in fact associated with local , group modes , but with normal modes of the whole molecule .
27 Tony Bottoms ( 1977 ) has used Durkheim 's ‘ two laws of penal evolution ’ to offer an explanation of the emerging trend towards ‘ bifurcation ’ in British penal policy , whereby less severe punishments for the majority of offenders is combined with harsher measures for the minority of really serious offenders ( see Chapter 1 ) .
28 Similarly , the remaining professional or technical staff are combined with administrative grades on the basis of salary .
29 Its situation in Edinburgh is both a recognition of past and present links between Scandinavia and Scotland and an excellent opportunity for collaboration with other Scandinavian institutions within the city and with the many other departments with Scandinavian interests within the University .
30 He has taken on possibly the most difficult directorship in the world , with unparalleled masterpieces in the huge collections , an enormous , sumptuous but dilapidated and unmodernised palace as his building , and wholly inadequate funding from the State .
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