Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] with [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention . |
| 2 | An important canvas of the autumn or early winter of 1906 , Two Nudes , now in the Museum of Modern Art , New York , could equally well be seen as two studies of a single figure viewed from diametrically opposed positions , an indication that Picasso was not only attempting to produce images of almost unprecedented weight and girth , but that he was also becoming impatient or dissatisfied with the idea of viewing his subjects from a single , stationary point of view . |
| 3 | The different LFA zones in the Auvergne have been drawn up on a Commune by Commune basis , each Commune being allocated completely to one zone or another with the exception of 11 Communes which are partly within one or other of the zones . |
| 4 | From the moment the family moved to Frome in the early 17th century and gave up being subsistence farmers with a complementary craft skill or two under their belts , they had been involved in one way or another with the world of industry — be it as manufacturing craftsmen or as retailers . |
| 5 | Given that this was a risk-free hedge we can make a check on the process by comparing the outcomes from states 1 or 2 with the result of investing the initial capital at the risk-free rate of return : . |
| 6 | Stakeholders are defined as any group or individual with an interest in the company 's activities . |
| 7 | Your French adventure sounds great & evocative with the visit to The Battlefields … we once visited a German one — very emotive . |
| 8 | Whereas Emily glowed with a rich , mature sensuality , her sister had an aura of virginity which might bloom as uncorrupted goodness or corrupt with a sense of its own moral rectitude . |
| 9 | Serve hot , warm or cold with a spoonful of olive oil and fresh lemon juice . |
| 10 | Those of Buchan preferred black , or black with a touch of white on the udder , which was said to be a sign of a good milker . |
| 11 | ( 4 ) In relation to food hygiene , the certificate from the appropriate authority should , in the case of an application for a new licence , state that the premises to which the application relates comply , or , in the case of an application for the provisional grant of a licence , would comply , with the requirements of regulations made under section 13 of the Food and Drugs ( Scotland ) Act 1956 relating to construction , layout , drainage , ventilation , lighting and water supply or concerned with the provision of sanitary and washing facilities . |
| 12 | If case management is expected to reduce reliance upon residential care then it will need components which specifically address the needs of clients who are most likely to be admitted , or those with the history of frequent admissions , or those who are likely to stay the longest . |
| 13 | I always feel happier or calmer with a pen in my hand , for writing is the one activity which gives me an unquestionable dignity and , if I may dare to claim it , an unconquerable pride . |
| 14 | A family with the disk ranging from a sack-like bag covered with skin or thin scales to a more rigid structure covered with large plates , usually armed with spinelets , granules , or simple rods , the density of covering varying ; the characters of the oral frame falling into broad categories ; either the jaws longer than broad with many papillae or as broad as long usually with fewer papillae , rarely more than 6–7 ; the arms usually noded but sometimes only slightly so ; arm spines usually erect , often long and rugose ; the tentacle pores either large and open with small tentacle scales or none at all or small with a variety of tentacle scales . |
| 15 | There are women of 18 or 19 with the bones of an 80-year-old . ’ |
| 16 | Performance did not improve — road and air increasingly cut into the rail markets — and the railways were now in the political arena , to be tugged this way and that with every change of government . |
| 17 | Sleepily goes into spiel about what kind of care would she like , has she chosen a hospital yet , how does she feel generally , this is her first , is n't it , a lot of nonsense talked nowadays about active births and so on , what people fail to realize is that birth is potentially highly dangerous for the mother and the child and that with a bit of foresight and the right equipment it 's possible to etc. , etc. , etc . |
| 18 | At Aldborough , the corridor mosaic displays numerous panels , but especially significant are those of all-over chequers in three colours and that with a band of crowstep pattern which encloses two swastikas . |
| 19 | When Mark reminded them that the plant was relatively new and that with the exception of the American Managing Director and Treasurer , was manned throughout by Irish men and women , they countered with , ‘ Ah yes , but it 's the Trade unions , you see . ’ |
| 20 | We believe that the language learning facility possessed by normally hearing children is also possessed by hearing-impaired children and that with the exception of some with severe secondary handicaps , hearing-impaired children learn the mother tongue naturally . |
| 21 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 22 | While ‘ it is too soon to be sanguine ’ , the board says , it believes the worst is over for its portfolio , and that with the benefit of devaluation for the whole of the second half , earnings for the full year should allow the trust 's record of dividend progress to be maintained . |
| 23 | There were , of course , one or two things that police officers kept to themselves , that the public never saw or heard , and that with the death of the Police Union there were no channels to articulate . |
| 24 | Joyce would need a passport , and that with the minimum of delay . |
| 25 | In his important best-selling book The End of Nature , the American writer Bill McKibben argues that nature holds other crucial , non-material values for us , and that with the onset of man-made global warming and the spread of genetic engineering , ‘ our sense of nature as eternal and separate will be washed away . ’ |
| 26 | Of the wines produced in Alsace , 95 per cent are white and dry with a smattering of rosés , a few ( delicious ) reds , a handful of sweet whites ( identified on the label as being vendange tardive or late picked ) and a little sparkling , known as Cremant d'Alsace ) . |
| 27 | The old phrase from a chapel childhood sprang at him , whole , and complete with the smell of daffodils in stale water in the chapel windowsills , the musty scent of Sankey 's Book of Sacred Songs and Solos , the fat lady at the harmonium , the long ah-men of Sunday mornings , Sunday afternoons and Sunday evenings . |
| 28 | There are two really significant dates in recent lesbian and gay history — 1969–70 with the emergence of the gay movement in America and Europe , and 1980–1 with the emergence of AIDS as a major threat to the health of gay men . |
| 29 | When I saw no one in the middle of the room , which had been full of music and smoke and pungent with the smell of hashish , I thought he might have forgotten to turn off the music before he went to sleep . |
| 30 | I still had memories of Delhi and Jaipur , of massive forts , Moghul tombs , of streets alive with turbanned figures , crowded with lumbering ox-carts and pungent with the smell of spices . |