Example sentences of "[noun pl] with [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | American travellers became stranded in Europe and turned into expatriates or exiles in Henry James 's novels , shadowy amalgamation of foreign manners with shreds of familiar accents that were up to the narrator to decipher , but it could n't happen to her , not in 1928 , even with a crash . |
| 2 | The narrator then goes on to tell of this divorcee , Brenda Goring , who arrives in their village and who latches on to his quite mouse of a wife , whom he dearly loves , fills her ears with tales of the fast life she has always led and still leads in visits to London and , worse , is always to be found in his home when he gets back exhausted from the office . |
| 3 | She translates the implicit meaning of tight skirts and high heels as the exact equivalent of Chinese foot binding and the Nigerian custom of loading women 's legs with pounds of brass wire . |
| 4 | I unluted the glasses to clean the face and legs with Spirits of Wine and Oil of Lavender . |
| 5 | Cleaning baths , probe systems , submersible transducers , whistle reactors and tube reactors are described and illustrated by Mason , while Goodwin discusses the first two methods with details of other larger scale equipment . |
| 6 | It is a miserable and heart-breaking business to take peasant families who left Vietnam 's poor northern provinces with visions of a new life in America dancing in their heads , who endured dangerous sea voyages , and who believed that Hong Kong 's camps , however dreadful , were a way station to their dream — to take these families and to return them to the red dirt farms and meagre fishing villages from which they came . |
| 7 | It is a miserable and heart-breaking business to take peasant families who left Vietnam 's poor northern provinces with visions of a new life in America dancing in their heads , who endured dangerous sea voyages , and who believed that Hong Kong 's camps , however dreadful , were a way station to their dream — to take these families and to return them to the red dirt farms and meagre fishing villages from which they came . |
| 8 | There is no shortage of guide books in the modern world , nor of travel books which regale readers with accounts of what travellers have seen . |
| 9 | But I could see with my inner eye the form of my Lord Krishna , seated before Arjuna in the chariot on the battlefield of Kurukshetra , and I heard the sublime thoughts , and this filled my eyes with tears of joy and love . ' ’ |
| 10 | Obviously a fish which , through abnormal pigmentation , can not exhibit these ‘ communication patterns ’ will be severely disadvantaged in its relationships with others of its species . |
| 11 | Most homosexuals are content to lead their own lives and pursue their own relationships with others of like feeling — or would be , if they were allowed to do so . |
| 12 | In addition relationships with users of services are more complex than in the private market and may involve an element of compulsion and social control ( social work , probation , some aspects of social security ) . |
| 13 | Many homosexual people are non-practising while other , potentially bisexual people find sufficient satisfaction in relationships with persons of their own sex , or of the other exclusively . |
| 14 | Those who argue that the modern nuclear or conjugal based family is a ‘ relatively isolated ’ unit do not deny that individual family members may maintain strong relationships with members of the families in which they were brought up ( their families of origin ) even after they have married and formed their own families ( their families of procreation ) . |
| 15 | They have tasks to complete but their ability to do so may depend on their relationships with centres of competence , both internal and external to the company , providing them with information . |
| 16 | Cole had emphasized the relationships with landsurfaces of different age and character , but to demonstrate exactly how ecological processes were manifested it was necessary to focus upon the interrelationships of all factors in the savanna ecological system and therefore the dynamic ecology was a feature of the University of McGill Rupununi Savanna Research project ( Hills , 1965 , 1974 ) and of work by Eden ( 1964 , 1974 ) . |
| 17 | My own solution is a compromise : avoid precise repetition , but use enough repetitions with elements of change to keep the listener formally orientated and continuously interested . |
| 18 | At any rate in the spring of 1784 it was Friends who resolved to accompany their delivery of their anti-slave trade pamphlet prepared by the slave trade committee of the Meeting for Sufferings with lobbying of MPs . |
| 19 | Once a bid has been publicly announced , parties with holdings of more than 50% or more of the voting rights of the target company , the offeror or any other company whose securities are offered for consideration must immediately inform the supervisory authority of all dealings in the securities of these companies . |
| 20 | Fix clear goals with expectations of success . |
| 21 | Some shaikhs saw no conflict of roles when they were themselves involved in disputes with members of their lineage , and used every means at their disposal to win an argument about , say , rights to land . |
| 22 | After the previous year saw a fall in the number of cases involving disputes with members of the Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation handled by the Investment Ombudsman , the number increased by over 50 per cent in 1992/3 according to his annual report . |
| 23 | The matters to be covered by enquiries are as follows : Title details — whether the property is freehold or leasehold ; ownership of boundary walls and fences ; details of any disputes affecting the property ; details of any disputes with owners of adjoining properties ; details of notices received ; details of services available to the property ; details of access and shared facilities ; details of encumbrances , covenants or restrictions affecting the property ; planning/rating . |
| 24 | Her studies were remarkable ; as a young woman Madame had filled eighteen notebooks with summaries of these women 's careers , reading them very literally as sources of practical advice , in much the same way as she had taught herself to understand stock management and how to do her own accounts . |
| 25 | In America within some states there are many school districts with decades of experience of such externally imposed and grade-related tests to enable teachers to make predictions and check by observation and testing the outcome . |
| 26 | For example , Meyer and Schvanevelt [ 1971 ] presented subjects with pairs of letter strings , to which they would answer ’ yes ’ if both letter strings were words , otherwise responding ’ no ’ . |
| 27 | the stones , filling trays with fragments of pots , |
| 28 | The villagers spoke French ; indeed , they thought of themselves as French citizens and consequently welcomed the helmeted Dragoons with cups of wine and offers of food . |
| 29 | One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government , he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign , chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences , and another on his marginal Copeland constituency , travelling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend . |
| 30 | We will never know what happened during that operation because , like most English people , we suffer from excessive politeness with figures of authority and we do n't question or harass them when their explanations seem superficial . |