Example sentences of "[to-vb] with [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost immediately I ran across the news that the French telephone monopoly , PTT , is well on the way with a scheme for putting all the phone numbers in France into a computer that a subscriber will be able to communicate with from a terminal that is connected to his instrument . |
| 2 | Or they , what kind of problems do , problems tend to come with from the flats ? |
| 3 | This is an issue which Western Governments and unions are only really beginning to grapple with in the context of the Single European market , and for many that is where the debate will stay for some time . |
| 4 | The fact that drivers — unlike , say , factory workers — have to work independently to some extent , so that their schedules can not be fixed in advance , is one reason why employment law is particularly hard to grapple with in the haulage industry . |
| 5 | The problem we have to grapple with in trying to understand the significance of the events is the contradiction between the ostensibly humanitarian instincts of those who campaigned for legal change , and the controlling impact they had on people 's lives , particularly working-class girls and homosexuals . |
| 6 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 7 | One thing you hardly expect to meet with on top of a mountain pass is a choice of roads ; but at the Col du Soul or there is one . |
| 8 | William Jardine [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ honest and liberal beyond what we generally meet with , or even expect to meet with in the general intercourse of business transactions ’ . |
| 9 | I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 . |
| 10 | There was even a character in Comic Cuts in the 1890s , a youthful prowler named ‘ Area Sneaker , — and what a pseudonym that is to conjure with from this supposedly untroubled late Victorian era — who reflected the fashion . |
| 11 | ‘ Each Schmincke stick is satisfyingly substantial to hold ; not so thin and fragile that the slightest pressure will result in breakages and big enough to work with for a considerable length of time . |
| 12 | It is sensible , however , to work with at least two and possibly three different photographers in any one field . |
| 13 | A girl I used to work with at the Beechams did like really big burps . |
| 14 | He was the same Michael , but grown up , and just as engaging and delightful to work with as when he was a kid . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd like to work with with er a good photographer , rather than go to college . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , Cousin Rory , ’ Crilly retorts , ‘ some of us here use other means to work with besides our hands ! ’ |
| 17 | He reminds the students of the three elements to work with in colour : warm and cool , bright and tertiary , dark and light . |
| 18 | If Jesus had been in your class for drama , who would he have chosen to work with in a pair ? |
| 19 | Attempts to characterise glass with a view to understanding its technology and source have been made , but glass is a difficult material to work with in this way because of compositional irregularities ( Sanderson and Hunter 1980 ; Hunter 1985 ) . |
| 20 | All of our leaders had reputations for being difficult to work with in some ways . |
| 21 | As Romaine ( 1984b ) points out , the notion of semantic equivalence is difficult to work with in practice , even if we attempt , following Weiner and Labov , to limit it to truth-conditional equivalence . |
| 22 | Although this is both extensive and varied by the standards of most of the human sciences , though perhaps not of history , what it illustrates is the difficulty of specifying what is to count as data beyond saying that it is whatever material that researchers need to work with in order to pursue their inquiries . |
| 23 | A large spreadsheet can be made much easier to work with by breaking it up into logical pieces on several pages of a notebook . |
| 24 | It was early still , but , while she had quite enjoyed his company and having someone else to converse with in her own language , an early night seemed quite a good idea . |
| 25 | After all , she was all right to flirt with at parties and escort him occasionally . |
| 26 | We were particularly tempting targets and , bombarded with jeers and gallons of water , we finally fled the hamlet clutching our sopping equipment to our bosoms like hysterical mothers — little comforted by the thought that these were the spiritual mediators of the people we intended to sail with over the months ahead … |
| 27 | Furthermore , the individual speaker 's ability to carry out successful linguistic " acts of identity " is subject to a number of limitations : We can only behave according to the behavioural patterns of groups we find it desirable to identify with to the extent that : ( i ) we can identify the groups ( ii ) we have both adequate access to the groups and ability to analyse their behavioural patterns ( iii ) the motivation to join the groups is sufficiently powerful , and is either reinforced or reversed by feedback from the groups ( iv ) we have the ability to modify our behaviour ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 182 ) |
| 28 | Although this precise example may not be directly relevant to many of us , we should all be able to identify with at least some of its elements 1 . |
| 29 | It is easy to identify with × 7 , and with × 20 it is not greatly inferior to M13 in Hercules . |
| 30 | You can offer encouragement , using a phrase which the young dog will come to identify with in time , such as ‘ clean dog ’ . |