Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its primary concern is to find out what its customers needs and wants are so as to meet them with the highest level of customer satisfaction . |
| 2 | But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g . |
| 3 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 4 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
| 5 | Not only is he generally responsible for the system but he also receives all appeals from refusals of permission , and has the power to call in any application for decision by himself rather than leave it with the district council . |
| 6 | In order to give people more confidence rather than surrounding them with gloom and doom , we should point out that , since 1979 , GDP has risen 22 per cent . |
| 7 | Planning permission will only be given if planners can show it would be cheaper to supply the demand rather than reduce it with energy conservation measures . |
| 8 | And Northumberland had chosen , rather than pursue them with a force then quite inadequate , to gather his and his sons ' levies and wait for the marauders to return . |
| 9 | Edmund Langley , born in 1342 and created Earl of Cambridge in 1362 , was granted part of the Warenne inheritance to maintain his estate , but his marriage to Isabella , youngest daughter of Pedro I of Castile , was used to further Gaunt 's diplomatic schemes rather than to provide him with an adequate endowment . |
| 10 | Some poison lions which are troublesome , rather than kill them with a spear . |
| 11 | The gentle , careful , intelligent eyes that gave nothing away while leaving you with the impression that you and what you were saying were the most intelligent things she had ever beheld and heard . |
| 12 | Nor were donors always royalty : the wife of Cnut 's henchman Tofi the Proud adorned a crucifix at Waltham in Essex with a crown , as well as decking it with other ornaments . |
| 13 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 14 | Some Eastern European countries — the USSR , for example — have attempted to deal with this problem by directing professional staff to work in certain areas for a limited number of years , as well as providing them with incentives in terms of higher salaries , pension rights , housing , etc . |
| 15 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 16 | He believed education should fit man for society , as well as equipping him with learning , hence he pressed not only for lessons in drawing , but also in French . |