Example sentences of "[noun] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Joan Jamieson , of Springfield Road , of Elgin with the new BT caller display unit |
| 2 | Patients with stones of any composition , size and number contained in a thin walled gall bladder with a fasting volume greater than 15 ml were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 3 | The Liberal Democrats won Kincardine and Deeside with an 11.4 per cent swing from the Conservatives ; this gave the Liberal Democrats their 10th seat in Scotland , overtaking the Conservatives ( nine ) . |
| 4 | Any budding Napoleon with a few hours to spare — or a few days , for some games — can choose from titles such as ‘ Butcher of Baghdad ’ , ‘ Gulf Strike ’ and ‘ Line in the Sand ’ . |
| 5 | And it was hard to reconcile his soft-spoken good manners with the ruthless determination of his business career . |
| 6 | ( In Italy the foliot was sometimes replaced by a balance wheel with a similar reciprocating action . ) |
| 7 | Among his many other inventions were a wire-spoke suspension wheel with a rubber tyre ( practically the modern bicycle wheel ) and the writing-telegraph which was an electro-mechanical precursor of modern facsimile equipment . |
| 8 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 9 | I had several interviews with each parent individually , speaking to nearly 90 per cent of the total population group in a borough with a wide class distribution and a large ethnic minority population ( see Goodey 1991 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ What functions ? ’ has been the response ; a spokesman for Camden , the borough with the largest number of Grade II listed buildings after Westminster , says , ‘ We 've never even had a conservation policy ? ’ |
| 11 | Guy 's Hospital colleagues were particularly disappointed that the project could not be carried out in Southwark , and it was therefore agreed that we should seek a similar , inner London , largely working-class borough with an established psychogeriatric service , so that findings might be applicable to the Southwark situation . |
| 12 | It is true because Wirral , as a suburban borough with an interesting and extensive coastline , an impressive green belt , some extremely affluent townships , a large number of owner-occupiers and a thriving private schools sector , does have the look and feel of a very well-heeled community . |
| 13 | To me the real distinction is not high and low , but between religion with a real supernaturalism and salvationism on the one hand and all watered-down modernist versions on the other . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I somehow do n't think you 'd manipulate me into discussing religion with a real-live rabbi . |
| 15 | Endo is a leading Japanese novelist who is sometimes compared with Graham Greene , but he writes about religion with a greater intellectual rigour than Greene , in a style both terse and elegant . |
| 16 | He dared to be a Christian , in a country which had supplanted religion with a political ideal , discouraging worship without actually suppressing it forcibly . |
| 17 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 18 | He talked religion with the great Erasmus Darwin in Derby , preached to sometimes vast congregations from Unitarian pulpits — ‘ my Sermons spread a sort of sanctity over my Sedition ’ — and returned in triumph to Bristol with the names of several hundred new subscribers . |
| 19 | Tartines of yellow sweet bread soaked pink with blackcurrant jam for the children , a slice each of set custard with a blackened skin , wrinkled and curdy . |
| 20 | But David Rocastle is poised to end his Elland Road isolation with a starring role in what had been billed the Battle of Britain . |
| 21 | Each story was separate and passed on in isolation with the possible exception of the story of the Passion . |
| 22 | Not that a girl would ever be allowed to touch the great hammers or take the white-hot metal from the furnace with the giant tongs . |
| 23 | The three islands have distinctive characteristics with the best of the game fishing being on South Uist . |
| 24 | Princely households had common characteristics with the English public schools of past generations . |
| 25 | He gambolled over the four fences on the run towards the turn for home on the first circuit , and made towards the stands with a commanding lead . |
| 26 | Mansell said he would go to Phoenix with an open mind . |
| 27 | The architecture of parallelism is to some extent in conflict or in counterpoint with the grammatical structure of each sentence , so that the main verb ( shown in capitals ) occurs in mid-parallelism , and forms ( continuing the architectural simile ) a concealed centre of gravity , balancing subject against predicate . |
| 28 | Side One is pure philosophy from ‘ Natural Mystic ’ to the complex title track , through ‘ Guiltiness ’ and ‘ The Heathen ’ , militant songs with a powerful drop . |
| 29 | ALL THE way from Kansas City , Joseph Vernon Tucker was banging out loud , dirty and jumping blues songs with a southern flavour before the war . |
| 30 | Chris Allison believes Gedge 's forte is his knack of writing strong songs with a commercial edge . |