Example sentences of "and with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's a big guitar , 16″ wide across the body and just over 4¾″ deep at the bottom bout , and with handsome-looking wood and satin-finished lacquer throughout it makes an immediate impression .
2 They saw themselves , untrained in guerrilla warfare and with inadequate equipment , being pitted against the armour-piercing bullets and landmines of the Provisional IRA while the remaining troops stayed in the background , protected , it was assumed , by a secret understanding between the NIO and the Provisionals .
3 This outlined the familiar and depressing picture of existing services dominated by large , old , isolated hospitals with shortages of staff and amenities and with inadequate day and out-patient psychiatric facilities , and put forward plans for an overall improvement of services .
4 It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . )
5 It has raised its own private army , which is already engaged in a two-front minor war with Sri Lankan government forces and with Tamil Tiger guerrillas , who , though badly mauled , have survived a bloody , two-year battle against vastly superior Indian forces , killing more than 1,150 of them .
6 If there are viewpoints to consider other than that of shareholders , they should be considered separately and with like rigour .
7 Then turning her head , she glanced up at the sergeant , and with definite bitterness in her voice , said , ‘ I 'll never do that again .
8 They sang the Yorkshire " Christians Awake " and " O Come all Ye faithful " with a mixture of respectability , sober energy and abandon which always confused Stephanie who associated the noise both with repressive habits and with unused forces finding an outlet .
9 Staff at the Sydenham site have also had talks with the manufacturer and operator of the Whispering Jet 146 and with environmental health officers .
10 Towards the top of the hill he made two bad jumping errors but these made little difference to his progress , and with Fifty Dollars More falling at the final open ditch only Combs Ditch looked to have any chance of getting in the way of a Dickinson clean sweep .
11 They did not look like the kind of people she usually associated with but seemed inimical , common , even savage , and with truculent , peevish faces .
12 Hyundai , founded 23 years ago and with eight years in Britain , offers five models , 23 variations in all , ranging from the £5822 X2 hatchback to the £15,274 Sonata saloon .
13 With more and more pensioners owing their homes outright , and with eight out of 10 recently retired pensioners having an income from investment and savings , is it not reasonable to recognise a measure of prosperity among pensioners ?
14 Maurice Freeman grabbed a second for Nova and with eight minutes remaining Graham Murphy equalised to force extra time .
15 These ‘ others ’ comprise housing workers , people skilled in developing and supervising work and other forms of daily occupation , welfare benefits negotiators , domestic care staff to provide help in the home and with personal care , teachers , counsellors and sympathetic listeners , people willing to act as befrienders and companions and , finally , responsive general practice services .
16 They should also be able to show how each authority intends to cooperate with each other and with private and voluntary organisations to develop joint or complementary approaches to service delivery .
17 Section 95 deals with the position of public companies and with private companies to the extent that they have not excluded the statutory provisions in their memoranda or articles .
18 The Haryana state government was reorganized on March 23 with Chauthala once again controversially , and briefly , taking formal charge as Chief Minister [ for his resignations in May and July 1990 see pp. 37452 ; 37610 ] and with former Chief Minister Hukam Singh as his deputy .
19 Only on a long , fast bend can the tail be persuaded to step out , and then only under strong provocation and with little drama , as the drivetrain begins to feed the power rearwards .
20 Social services staff would also argue that health authorities can move people quite quickly — even precipitately — from hospital to residential care with limited preparation and with little need to negotiate with emotionally involved parents and carers .
21 Jenkins ( 1987 ) describes effectiveness research so far as a ‘ limited concept , primarily relating to the intervention process ’ and with little validity in the ‘ macro area ’ .
22 The drudgery of compiling the Watchman to peremptory deadlines , and with little help , quickly evoked very different feelings in Coleridge .
23 The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder .
24 If , however , a group is set an ambiguous task with an uncertain outcome and with little previous experience to draw on it is unlikely to succeed unless it operates as a team at the skilful level .
25 Now the teachers tend to describe their places of work as ‘ mass institutions ’ where students register and drift into and out of courses at will and with little supervision .
26 Tim and Lynne Littler caught up with us at this point and with little resistance from our party , insisted that we could n't leave Paris without a light lunch .
27 There are people in this world who have learned to fly very quickly and with little trouble , but rest assured that they are in a very small minority .
28 Synthetic brushes have been available for some time and seemed to be the ideal solution , but in the past brushes could be too soft to control well , or too hard to be fully responsive , limiting paint delivery and with little spring , performing as a poor cousin to natural hair and bristle .
29 So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life .
30 They dig without urgency and with little hope .
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