Example sentences of "with [noun prp] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My philosophy with Jim was that once you go onto the court , play every point deliberately . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , mate , the trouble with Manu is that there 's no cheap way to get there , leastways this time of year . |
| 3 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 4 | ‘ The problem with Andy is that he has played so rarely we have yet to get him into our pattern of play . |
| 5 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 6 | The trouble with Edward is that he 's practically a saint . |
| 7 | The problem with Seawright was that he openly voiced what many people took to be the true feelings of Democratic Unionists , often to the embarrassment of the DUP spokesmen who were presenting a more moderate position . |
| 8 | The net result with HM was that staff spent a lot of time asking and cajoling him , but he did not respond or became disturbed , and staff eventually did much of the activity themselves . |
| 9 | The main stumbling block for Drouot and other auction houses that want to deal with Russia is that the old export regulations ban any external trade in works of art created before 1945 . |
| 10 | But the problem with Clairvaux was that although it lay in Poitou a Count of Anjou could claim to hold it . |
| 11 | My argument here with Dennett is that if he intends interpretations ( a ) or ( b ) ( a textual quotation here would be beside the point , since these distinctions are not made in his paper in that form ) , then those are inferior explications of consciousness to a process one in terms of level : ( b ) because it lacks the ‘ unity ’ requirement , and ( a ) because , although it could meet all the necessary conditions set out earlier , it seems in some way arbitrary , just as did Minsky 's supreme organizing module . |
| 12 | The only problem with Snotties is that they take casualties fairly quickly . |
| 13 | One incidental problem often faced with PageMaker is that most of the final editing gets done ‘ on the page ’ . |
| 14 | I have my doubts erm in , in that erm certainly not within one nation erm I , I agree with you entirely that it 's contradictory to Marxism in that erm what happened in erm with Mao was that erm he turned away from any internationalist socialist concept . |
| 15 | My problem with Smokey is that I know every song backwards and familiarity cuts the excitement quota . |
| 16 | Chairman Colin Henderson said : ‘ What struck us in our interview with Lawrence was that he definitely wanted the job and was ready to move North straightaway . |
| 17 | One of the I 'm sure one of the results of Britain 's closer links with Europe is that there is greater contact between churches speaking different languages across these Catholic/Protestant boundaries . |
| 18 | The difference with Bill was that he had the power to be able to make his fantasy come true and that he lacked the self control , and the basic decency to say ‘ no ’ to himself and to Mandy . |
| 19 | But I think one of the big differences with Oxford is that a very , very high proportion of students are living in college and so they 're behaviour is visible to college . |
| 20 | The thing with Minneapolis was that everyone was bored to tears , so we just made a scene . ’ |
| 21 | What was really wrong with Eldorado was that nobody really cared much about what happened to the characters . |
| 22 | They are and I I think the whole trouble with Jenny was that not having , I mean , I was alright as a sort of mum subject I was n't the same as a bona fide mum that could be called upon in all weathers , at all times , to do everything |
| 23 | The difference with Mandy is that her boyfriend was Wyman , a man who had the power to make these fantasies come true — before she had time to understand the implications of them . |
| 24 | The trouble with Elizabeth is that she is over-modest . |
| 25 | THE trouble with Everton is that Howard Kendall does not appear to know his best team . |
| 26 | The conclusion is inescapable that the reason why the US and UK have illegally rejected all means for the peaceful resolution of this dispute with Libya is that both states know full well that Libya was not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 27 | The problem with Orwell is that he could only think of class conflict in terms of major insurrectionary conflict . |