Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 2 | Its best-selling model is the Kijang , a tin box developed through a joint venture with Toyota . |
| 3 | Nathaniel Sherman stumbled slightly at the entrance of his hut , and his wife heard him cursing and fumbling for a long time with the flap fastenings . |
| 4 | The prince listened intently as British Korean war veteran Sam Mercer described the battle in which he fought as a 21-year-old private with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1951 . |
| 5 | Diana , they decided , would be painted as a sick woman with only a tenuous grasp of reality . |
| 6 | Among attractions of a combined survey is the economy of mobilising for a larger survey with fewer turns for the ship . |
| 7 | Because the machine is produced and factory aligned as a double bed with the needles sitting in individual channels and because of the addition of the pushing down wheels , the tuck knitting is more easily made , with its stitch formation more accurate , without the lateral distortion than can occur within the stitches made on a machine that does not have needle channels . |
| 8 | Stewarts-Melville 's Douglas Wyllie goes through a passing movement with colleagues during a brisk A squad training session in Aberdeen yesterday |
| 9 | The privatization programme has been recognized as a major break with the mixed economy consensus . |
| 10 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 11 | Amaranth , whose figure was her fortune , chose Vichyssoise : Grunte , whose fortune , such as it was , owed more to Nissan motors , asked for a smoked trout with horseradish sauce . |
| 12 | Before the Cabinet reached its final decision , Shawcross asked for a special meeting with the Prime Minister and Morrison in which he strongly pressed his point of view : |
| 13 | In 1987 he argued for a beefed-up Neddy with the council meetings chaired by the industry secretary rather than by the chancellor . |
| 14 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 15 | In some places , this was considered to be the province of full-time managers , regarded as a technical matter with minimal reporting to the Health Authority . |
| 16 | The model is graphical in form and can be regarded as a curved surface with a pleat forming a cusp where the two fold lines meet — hence its name . |
| 17 | Each vertex can be regarded as a triangular pyramid with a base to edge ratio of π . |
| 18 | ‘ Space will have to be regarded as a primary thing with matter derived from it . ’ |
| 19 | Narrative , which at the level of narration is most threatened by referential interpretations , can now be regarded as a self-contained system with its own internal rules governing every aspect of its operation ; the signs of the narrator are embedded in the narrative , hence perfectly detectable by a semiological analysis . |
| 20 | Franlow maintains Mrs Taylor was dismissed after a long-running dispute with the manageress . |
| 21 | OUTSIDE , TWO more journalists are waiting , a meeting is scheduled with video director Julien Temple and there 's a Concorde to New York to catch for a possible date with Sonic Youth . |
| 22 | A referendum on June 28 endorsed the draft constitution elaborated by the Constituent Assembly [ see pp. 38420 ; 38585 ] , which provided for a parliamentary system with a strong presidency . |
| 23 | He was usually depicted as a young man with a Phrygian cap and short tunic , thrusting a sword into the neck of a bull and thus demonstrating his triumph over the forces of evil . |
| 24 | In a famous Victorian poem , the fly was depicted as a little man with ‘ rainbows on his wings , a black and brown gown laced around his waist ’ . |
| 25 | In the traditional unitary form ( ’ U-form ’ ) enterprise , the business is organised as a single unit with administrative functions , such as production planning , sales , and personnel , centralised in a head office . |
| 26 | The recorder Nicholas Jarman jailed him for a further 3 and a half years for what he described as a terrible act with the most appalling consequences . |
| 27 | Host : Cat Site : Small intestine Distribution : Worldwide Typically of the superfamily , Toxocara cati is a large white worm , often occurring as a mixed infection with the other ascaridoid of carnivores , Toxascaris leonina . |
| 28 | He wanted to train as a chartered accountant with the ultimate aim of becoming a managing director . |
| 29 | The ANC had earlier resisted a meeting with Inkatha on the grounds that this would lend undue national legitimacy to what it regarded as a Zulu organization with a power base confined largely to Natal province . |
| 30 | President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines was pressing for a seven-year treaty with an annual US$825 million in compensation ( comprising $400 million in cash grants and the remainder in concessions including debt reductions and trade concessions ) . |