Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself . |
| 2 | But it sits uneasily with the often-heard principle that ‘ local services should respond to local needs ’ . |
| 3 | At first sight this degree of fluidity in the Japanese labour market sits uneasily with the presumption that employment is for life because this would make wages a quasi-fixed cost . |
| 4 | The unit tries to keep the offenders out of court , an aim that sits uneasily with the government 's new philosophy that prison and punishment work . |
| 5 | This power , while it is comfortable in the context of this poem sits uneasily with the images of nature and creative forces proposed in the Eolian harp , This Lime Tree Bower My Prison and Frost at Midnight . |
| 6 | In other words , the ideology of limited intervention which the current Conservative administration espouses sits uneasily with its need to respond to the demands of industrial and property production and to those for environmental conservation and local control over land policy . |
| 7 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 8 | While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem . |
| 9 | Pre-emptive analgesia may be relevant to the management of chronic pain ; a Danish study showed a reduction of phantom limb pain for up to one year when ischaemic pain was treated effectively with epidural analgesia before amputation . |
| 10 | The incidence of heart failure among patients who are treated effectively with thrombolytic agents is probably lower than among those patients who are not treated . |
| 11 | Secure the long bullrush leaves around the pond , sticking on with a little fondant . |
| 12 | Sticking on with a little royal icing or glue , wrap the strip carefully around the edge of the roof , scalloped edge upwards . |
| 13 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 14 | The National Curriculum sections of the ERA , essentially centralising and directive in character , sit uneasily with a variety of other arrangements which undermine the Local Education Authority as intermediary between centre ( DES ) and periphery ( school ) : ‘ opting out ’ , City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) , open enrolment , local management of schools ( LMS ) . |
| 15 | But the traditions and conventions of scepticism and proper doubt sit uneasily with the current politics of commitment and conviction , whether of the left or the right . |
| 16 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 17 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 18 | ‘ It really is time he got on with running his own business and let us run ours . |
| 19 | Though he denounced the American-led initiative to establish protected enclaves in the north as an infringement of Iraq 's sovereignty , he did not intervene as western soldiers got on with what is indeed a mighty infringement . |
| 20 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 21 | They got on with their lives , did n't interfere , knew nothing of human quarrels , obeyed natural laws without any chicanery . |
| 22 | They were sage young people and got on with Christopher . |
| 23 | ‘ … but strange , ’ I said , ‘ because I believe she never got on with her mother . ’ |
| 24 | Anyway , I 'll meet you down here tomorrow , tell you how I got on with Gazzer . ’ |
| 25 | I pretended not to notice her look of astonishment and got on with my shining . |
| 26 | Waving to him , Mungo got on with sanding the unfinished side of the gate . |
| 27 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 28 | Maggie got on with making the breakfast . |
| 29 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 30 | As for Irina , Franca could not , and did not try to , make her out , but got on with her perfectly well . |